Gürzenich Orchestra
The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne is the symphony orchestra of the city of Cologne , founded as the Cölner Städtisches Orchester , which celebrated its 125th anniversary in the 2013/2014 season.
history
The orchestra is named after the former concert hall, the Gürzenich . The orchestra has been based in the Cologne Philharmonic since 1986 .
In the tradition of the cathedral chapel, the history of the orchestra goes back to the 15th century. The “Concert Society”, founded in 1827, organized “Winter Concerts”, from which the “Gürzenich Concerts” emerged from 1857. The Cologne theater orchestra, which existed throughout the 19th century, was taken over into municipal services in 1888.
From the 2003/2004 season to 2013/2014 the Cologne General Music Director Markus Stenz was responsible for the Gürzenich Orchestra in addition to the Cologne Opera . James Gaffigan , chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and permanent guest conductor of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Hilversum, has been the first guest conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra since the beginning of the 2012/2013 season .
From the 2015/16 season, François-Xavier Roth took over the post of General Music Director. In May 2020 it was announced that his contract had been extended to 2025 with an option to 2027.
The orchestra manager Stefan Englert will become the managing director of the Gürzenich Orchestra on September 1, 2018, replacing Patrick Schmeing, who held the office until the end of 2017.
special offers
With “Go Plus” a free offer is offered on the Internet, in which selected live recorded concerts of the Gürzenich Orchestra can be experienced as high-resolution videos and as an audio stream.
Gürzenich Kapellmeister
- Conradin Kreutzer (1840–1842)
- Heinrich Dorn (1843–1849)
- Ferdinand Hiller (1850-1884)
- Franz Wüllner (1884–1902)
- Fritz Steinbach (1903-1914)
- Hermann Abendroth (1915–1934)
- Eugen Papst (1936–1944)
- Günter Wand (1946–1974)
- Yuri Aronowitsch (1975–1986)
- Marek Janowski (1986–1990)
- James Conlon (1990-2002)
- Markus Stenz (2003-2014)
- François-Xavier Roth (since September 1, 2015, five-year contract).
Important world premieres
- Kurt Atterberg : 6th Symphony (1928)
- Johannes Brahms : Double Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra (1887)
- Walter Braunfels : Te Deum (1922)
- Walter Braunfels: The Death of Cleopatra (1946)
- Walter Braunfels: Sinfonia brevis (1949)
- Otto Klemperer : Mass (1923)
- Gustav Mahler : 3rd Symphony (together with the Krefeld Municipal Chapel) (1902)
- Gustav Mahler: 5th Symphony (1904)
- Hans Pfitzner : The Dark Realm (1930)
- Max Reger : Serenade (1906)
- Max Reger: Hiller Variations (1907)
- Max Reger: Symphonic prologue to a tragedy (1909)
- Richard Strauss : Don Quixote (1898)
- Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's funny pranks (1895)
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann : Sinfonia prosodica (1946)
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto for Orchestra (1947)
Honorary conductors
- from 1987: Günter Wand
- from 2009: Dmitrij Kitajenko
Awards
In 2010, the orchestra won a prize in the innovation competition 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas of Deutsche Bank. The award went to the globally unique GO live! concert recordings on CD or downloading to an MP3 player around five minutes after the final applause.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Conductor François-Xavier Roth will remain Cologne's Gürzenich boss until 2025. In: SWR2 . May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ City of Cologne press release of July 5, 2018: Stefan Englert new Managing Director of the Gürzenich Orchestra , accessed on July 5, 2018
- ↑ Go Plus on the Gürzenich Orchestra homepage, accessed on June 3, 2020
- ^ City of Cologne press release of February 14, 2014: François-Xavier Roth becomes General Music Director in Cologne. Conductor will take up his post on September 1, 2015 for five years , by Stefan Palm , accessed on February 14, 2014