Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

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Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
Tonhalle Düsseldorf, 2006
Tonhalle Düsseldorf, 2006
General information
Genre (s) Classical music
founding 1864
Website http://www.duesseldorfer-symphoniker.de/
Founding members
City of Düsseldorf , 34 musicians

The Düsseldorfer Symphoniker are the concert orchestra of the state capital Düsseldorf and, along with the Duisburg Philharmonic, one of two orchestras of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein .

history

Düsseldorf orchestral culture has been traceable for almost 400 years. Since 1614 residence city, Düsseldorf developed into a center of baroque musical life with a court orchestra famous far beyond the borders , which musicians like Georg Friedrich Handel and Arcangelo Corelli paid visits. After the dissolution of the Düsseldorf court in Mannheim from 1720, the members of the court music formed the trunk for the Mannheim orchestra, which was to become the cradle of modern orchestral sound.

In Düsseldorf music maintenance remained in the hands of the citizens. In May 1818, the Municipal Music Association was formed as part of the 1st Lower Rhine Music Festival . Friedrich August Burgmüller was hired as the first “municipal music director ”, and his successors included Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann . In 1864, 34 musicians were officially taken into the service of the city. Today the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker have 130 permanent positions, 117 of which are currently filled. The orchestra represents the field of symphonic music for the state capital Düsseldorf .

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Great Hall of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf was renamed the Mendelssohn Hall on February 7, 2014 as part of a concert ceremony to honor its former music director .

Conductors

General Music Directors

The range of music directors / general music directors includes

Guest conductors (selection)

Concerts

The orchestra has 42 concert appearances in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, including 36 symphony concerts and other family, special and gala concerts as well as 224 opera performances in the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Concert tours and guest performances have taken the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra to the Wiener Festwochen (1998, world premiere of the Beuys opera by Franz Hummel ), to the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg , to the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, to the Flanders Festival, to the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels , the Bolschoi Theater Moscow , the Cologne Philharmonic , the Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main a . a. In September 2001 the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker went on a 10-day concert tour through China. In 2005, the musicians made guest appearances in Japan, made their debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and returned to Salzburg.

Recordings

Recent CD recordings include a CD with works by and with Noam Sheriff , and live recordings of concerts conducted by John Fiore. The last CD with Strauss's tone poem “ Also sprach Zarathustra ” to be released in stores was widely discussed by the press. This discography also contains opera recordings and recordings with the Städtischen Musikverein zu Düsseldorf eV, founded in 1818.

Social activities

In addition to the concert activity, the orchestra's educational work is very important. In constant cooperation with schools, interdisciplinary topics relating to music and composers are dealt with and workshops for young musicians are offered. School tours of the orchestra and school visits by individual orchestral musicians are just as much a part of everyday life as school class visits to rehearsals. Since the 2001/2002 season, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker have been offering youth concerts on various mornings, moderated by the respective conductors.

In order to enable schoolchildren and students in particular to attend a concert, all tickets for events by the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra cost only 5 euros for this group. In addition, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra supports the Tonhalle's youth symphony orchestra in its rehearsals and in planning the program.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam Fischer becomes first concert conductor of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. In: tonhalle.de. Tonhalle Düsseldorf, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; Retrieved February 8, 2015 .