Electoral Palatinate Chamber Orchestra

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Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester (excerpt)

The Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester was founded in 1952 by the former general music director of the Mannheim National Theater, Eugen Bodart . It is a full-time chamber orchestra with 14 permanent musicians. It sees itself as the successor to the court orchestra of the Electors of the Palatinate and is dedicated to maintaining the Mannheim school . That is why the orchestra organizes its own series of concerts in the knight's hall of Mannheim Palace .

The orchestra is financed by the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate , the cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and the District Association of Palatinate . In addition, there are donations and orchestral sponsorships from major companies in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region as well as continuous support from a development association.

The orchestra is organized as a registered association, chaired by Dietmar von Hoyningen-Huene . The association pursues the goal of promoting the maintenance of music, especially of the Mannheim school , through concerts, radio and CD recordings , and to make it common property.

History of the orchestra

The chamber orchestra gave its first official concert in March 1952 in Mannheim's Wartburg hospice. Before that there had been some test concerts, especially in the Ladenburg St. Gallus Church . Jean Sibelius took over the honorary chairmanship of the young orchestra. The Süddeutsche Rundfunk recorded this concert. The reactions in the regional press were very positive. The sheet music came from the Fürstlich-Leiningische Hofbibliothek Amorbach , the library of the Princes von Oettingen-Wallerstein , the Thurn & Taxis'schen Hofbibliothek Regensburg and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München . Due to the close contact with the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester became the founding orchestra of the Schwetzingen Festival . The first managing director was the violinist Curt Werner.

Chief conductor since the orchestra was founded

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Stricker, Kurpfälzer Kammerorchester Magazin No. 1, edition for the 50th anniversary 2002, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Waltraud Brunst, Kurpfälzer Kammerorchester Magazin No. 1, edition for the 50th anniversary 2002, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Electoral Palatinate Chamber Orchestra. Paul Meyer. In: Klassik.com . 19th November 2018 .;