One music conductor was Christian Gottlob Neefe.
 He is to this day regarded by such authorities as James Levine as the greatest of all Verdi conductors
 Conductors like Willem Mengelberg in Amsterdam until the end of World War II had had extensive rehearsal time to mold orchestras very precisely and thus could have idiosyncratic techniques; modern conductors, who spend less time with any given orchestra, must get results with much less rehearsal time

