交响音乐会演出结束了,剧场里观众报以热烈的掌声。指挥在向观众谢幕之时,总是亲切地向乐队中第一小提琴的演奏者——首席小提琴(简称首席)握手致意,并让他与自己一同谢幕,有的观众对此甚为不解。原来,在交响乐队演变和发展的历程中,最初是由第一小提琴手领着乐队演奏的。如十八世纪初的哈赛在德累斯顿演奏时,他弹奏大键琴,先向第一小提琴手颔首 Symphony concert is over, the audience reported a warm applause. During the closing curtain call to the audience, the conductor always cordially shook hands with the first violinist in the band, Chief Violin (Chief Principal), and made him join the curtain call, some of whom were very puzzled. It turned out that in the evolution and development of the symphony orchestra, initially by the first violinist led the band playing. When played at Dresden in the early 18th century, he played the harpsichord, first to the first violinist