✔ 最佳答案
這是沒有一定的要求, 在下列出較著名的國際指揮家, 其原有音樂是從事那種樂器呢?
鋼琴, 鍵盤樂器
Claudio Abbado - study piano
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy - Pianist
Daniel Barenboim - Pianist
Fritz Reiner - study piano
Antal Doráti - study piano
James Levine - Pianist
Kurt Masur - study piano, composition
André Previn - Pianist, composer
Morton Gould - Pianist, composer
Sir Georg Solti - Pianist
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent - Organist
Leonard Bernstein - Pianist, composer
Leopold Stokowski - Organist
Bruno Walter - Pianist, composer
提琴
Sir John Barbirolli - Cellist
Arturo Toscanini - Cellist
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich - Cellist
Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky - bassist, study Violin, cello, piano
Yehudi Menuhin - Violinst
Pierre Monteux - Violinst, violaist
Charles Münch - Violinst
Eugene Ormandy – Violinst
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink - Violinst
管樂
Sir Colin Rex Davis - Study Clarinet
Rudolf Kempe - Oboist
Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras - Oboist, study piano and composition
Edo de Waart - Oboist, study piano
敲擊樂
Sir Simon Denis Rattle - Percussionist, study violin and piano
作曲
Pierre Boulez
George Szell
John Rutter
Otto Klemperer
專職指揮
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet
Sir Thomas Beecham
Herbert von Karajan
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Erich Kleiber
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult
Karl Böhm
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Lorin Varencove Maazel
Zubin Mehta
Riccardo Muti
Seiji Ozawa
從上面資料來看, 較多指揮是從彈鍵盤樂器轉職為指揮, 這也因為看鍵盤是需要同時看高低音譜表, 和樂隊總譜也是要'一目十行', 但亦不能否定指揮的技術是可以學習得來, 亦有很多有名指揮家是專職指揮, 但是對指揮在音樂處理和對樂曲的研究上都是一視同仁.