Duisburg Philharmonic
The Duisburger Philharmoniker (until 2001 Duisburg Symphony Orchestra ) are the municipal orchestra of the city of Duisburg and one of two orchestras of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . It was founded in Duisburg in 1877 under the name "Neue Städtische Kapelle" and under the direction of Hermann Brandt.
history
Walter Josephson , music director from 1899 to 1920, set the first major accents with the German premiere of Anton Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Famous personalities such as Richard Strauss , Paul Hindemith , Carl Schuricht , Max Reger , Hans Pfitzner , Aram Chatschaturjan and Bruno Walter led the orchestra as guest conductors.
The heyday of the orchestra was the 1920s . Under the direction of music director Paul Scheinpflug (1920–1928) and artistic director Saladin Schmitt , the orchestra celebrated music festivals and there were numerous first and world premieres .
From 1930 to 1932, General Music Director Eugen Jochum took over the leadership of the Duisburg Philharmonic. He was replaced by General Music Director Otto Volkmann in 1933. He accompanied the orchestra in difficult times, even during the chaos of war, up to 1944.
In the post-war period, Georg Ludwig Jochum (1948–1970) did the building work. This was followed by Walter Weller (1971), Miltiades Caridis (1975–1981), Lawrence Foster (1982–1987), Alexander Lazarew (1988–1993) and Bruno Weil (1994–2002).
At the beginning of the 2002/2003 season, the Briton Jonathan Darlington took up his position as general music director and conductor of the symphony orchestra. At the end of the 2010/2011 season, Darlington resigned from this position, his successor from 2012/2013 to 2016/2017 was Giordano Bellincampi . Axel Kober , the long-standing GMD of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, took over the position of chief conductor for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons. In February 2019 his appointment as general music director was announced; Starting with the 2019/2010 season, until July 2022, he was obliged to conduct four Philharmonic concerts per season. In addition, the Israeli-American conductor Benjamin Shwartz was invited as “First Guest Conductor”, who will conduct three concerts.
The musicologist Alfred Wendel has been the orchestra's director since 2006 .
Venues
The orchestra had its most important venue in Duisburg's Mercatorhalle until the preparations for the demolition of the hall in 2003. Since then, the concerts have taken place in the Duisburg Theater am Marientor . In April 2007 the new Mercatorhalle in the City Palais was completed; since then it has served as the new residence for the Duisburg Philharmonic. In August 2012 the Mercatorhalle was closed due to massive fire protection problems. The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra played again in the Theater am Marientor from the beginning of the 2012/2013 season until the end of the 2015/2016 season. After extensive renovation work and the solution to fire protection problems, the Duisburg Philharmonic has been welcoming visitors to the Mercator Hall again since September 2016.
Another venue is the Duisburg Theater, where the orchestra appears as the opera orchestra of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein . The orchestra also performs in other places, such as B. in the Haniel Academy , the Concert-Theater- Coesfeld , the Rheinhausen-Halle and the Lehmbruck-Museum .
Open air concerts
The orchestra's open-air concerts at different locations in Duisburg are particularly popular with the population: in the Kantpark, on the Burgplatz , at the inner harbor, as part of major sporting events ( World Games 2005 , Canoe World Championships 2007 ) also in the Wedau sports park. In September 2019, the fourth “Haniel Classic Open Air” took place on Opernplatz in front of the Duisburg Theater.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Darlington at DerWesten
- ↑ Portrait at DerWesten
- ↑ Axel Kober becomes the new GMD of the Duisburg Philharmonic. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .