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i don't know if this is neccesarily off topic, but... when you have a large ensemble, someone to look to for tempo, dynamics, cues, etc... is almost always necessary.
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The Vienna Phil don't need a conductor for the above reasons. They need a conductor so that the interpretation is coming from one person rather than 200. So that they play a certain note at a certain dynamic rather than 200 peoples interpretation of dynamic. It is get get the piece into one persons idea (though they all have input), rather than chaos of ideas.