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Jean-Baptiste Lully died after stabbing his own foot with a conducting staff

Jean-Baptiste Lully: the Baroque composer who died of gangrene after stabbing his foot with a conducting stick

Three-year-old conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Toddler conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with the skill of a professional maestro

Beethoven

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Clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer takes to the podium

Clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer makes his UK conducting debut: ‘I’ve always been very instrument-fluid’

Andreas Ottensamer

What does a conductor do?

Why do orchestras need a conductor?

Chiya Amos: from conducting orchestras to delivering food

Singapore ballet conductor swaps baton for bike in pandemic delivery job

Coronavirus

Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali

‘The hottest conductor in Finland’ – we meet Philharmonia Orchestra’s Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Philharmonia

Conductor, composer and arranger Mantovani

Historic Mantovani recordings released with new vocals by tenor Joseph Calleja

Facebook bans Dallas Opera from using promotional photo of woman conductor

Facebook bans Dallas Opera from using promotional photo of woman conductor

Humanoid robot conducts human orchestra

Giant humanoid robot conducts human orchestra in mildly disturbing footage

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LOSANGELES: ET.1126. Vasily Petrenko, the 36-year-old Russian music director of the Liverpool Philha

Who is Vasily Petrenko? Meet the Russian-British conductor set to lead the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko

Conductor Marta Gardonlinska

Conductor Marta Gardolińska: “Our jobs are similar to those of sports people – it’s high pressure and physical strength is needed...”
James Rose of BSO Resound

Meet BSO Resound, the ensemble of disabled musicians changing the classical music world

leonard bernstein eyebrows

Watch Leonard Bernstein conduct an orchestra using only his EYEBROWS

Bernstein, L

shouting conductor

This conductor just started plain yelling in the middle of Scheherazade

Rimsky-Korsakov

Conductor falls into stage

Watch: Conductor trips and falls HEAD FIRST into the stage

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Carlos Kleiber

Watch: Conductor mimes stabbing himself during an agonising performance of Der Rosenkavalier

Carlos Kleiber

stokowski rehearsal rage

This conductor’s rage will simultaneously terrify and inspire you

When pianists try to conduct

Here's what happens when pianists turn their hand to conducting