Saint Petersburg Philharmonic

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Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic

The St. Petersburg Philharmonic (actually: St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic DD Shostakovich - Russian Санкт-Петербургская академическая филармония им Д. Д. Шостаковича. ) Is a public cultural institution in St. Petersburg , the oldest Philharmonic of Russia . It comprises two concert halls and offers space for two symphonic orchestras, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic .

history

In 1802, the first European Philharmonic Society was established in Saint Petersburg. 1824 was in St. Petersburg Missa Solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven first performed.

The first building with the large concert hall ( Большой зал ) with over 1500 seats was built in 1839 according to the design of the architect Paul Jacot; the facades were designed by the architect Carlo Rossi . Originally the building was intended for the assembly of nobles ( Дворянское собрание ). It was located at 2 Mikhaylovskaya Street.

At the end of the 1840s, the concert hall became the center of Saint Petersburg's musical culture. Many famous musicians of this time performed, such as Ferenc Liszt , Anton Rubinstein , Clara Schumann , Richard Wagner , Pauline Viardot-Garcia , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Modest Mussorgsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and others. a.

After the October Revolution , the hall was renamed “Petrograd Philharmonic” in 1921 and “Leningrad Philharmonic” in 1924. In 1975 the name of Dmitri Shostakovich was added. In 1991 the building was renamed the “Saint Petersburg Philharmonic”.

During the Leningrad blockade on August 9, 1942, the Seventh "Leningrad" Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich was performed in the concert hall .

On May 15, 1949, the small chamber music hall (Малый зал) was opened on 30 Nevsky Prospect with the name of Mikhail Glinka . The hall is located in the so-called “Engelhardt House”, built in 1761 according to the plans of the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli and rebuilt in the 19th century by Paul Jacot.

Two orchestras of almost the same name perform in the halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic:

  • Honored Collective of the Russian Federation - Saint Petersburg Philharmonic (chief conductor: Juri Temirkanow, 2nd conductor: Nikolai Aleksjejew)
  • Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic (chief conductor: Alexandr Dmitrjew, 2nd conductor: Wladimir Altschuler)

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Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 9.7 ″  N , 30 ° 19 ′ 54.2 ″  E