Minnesota Orchestra

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The Minnesota Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Minneapolis , Minnesota . It was founded in 1903 and is now a well-known orchestra in the United States.

history

Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis

The orchestra was founded in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra by the German immigrant Emil Oberhoffer . Most of the musicians came from the Danz Orchestra that Frank Danz had set up in the Twin Cities. In 1907 it went on tour for the first time in Minnesota, later in the Midwest. In 1912 the orchestra performed for the first time in New York City at Carnegie Hall . In the 1920s, phonogram recordings began to be marketed commercially and broadcast on the radio.

In 1954, the orchestra recorded the ballets Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker , which were set to music by Tchaikovsky , under the direction of Antal Doráti . The production of the Overture 1812 , recorded in the same year, was later repeated in order to be able to record it again in stereo . In 1968 the orchestra was renamed the Minnesota Orchestra . Six years later, it moved from the one on the campus of the University of Minnesota situated Northrop Memorial Auditorium in the newly built Orchestra Hall to downtown Minneapolis. With the conductor Eiji Ōue , the Minnesota Orchestra recorded numerous highly acclaimed records in the 1990s, six of which received Grammy nominations. In 2003 the Finn Osmo Vänskä took over the post of chief conductor. In 2004 he began a five-year project in which he recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies . The CD recording of the ninth symphony (with the Minnesota chorale in the final chorus) received a Grammy nomination in 2007. The Sibelius symphonies were recorded between 2012 and 2016. With the fifth symphony, Vänskä recorded the Mahler in 2017 -Symphonies started.

The ensemble, which consists of around 100 members, plays around 200 concerts a year. In addition to regular appearances in the Orchestra Hall, it goes on tour around the world. Concert recordings are broadcast on more than 120 radio stations and reach over 200,000 listeners per week.

List of chief conductors

  1. Emil Oberhoffer (1903-22)
  2. Henry Verbrugghen (1923-31)
  3. Eugene Ormandy (1931-36)
  4. Dimitri Mitropoulos (1937-49)
  5. Antal Doráti (1949-60)
  6. Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1960–79)
  7. Neville Marriner (1979-86)
  8. Edo de Waart (1986-95)
  9. Eiji Oue (1995-2002)
  10. Osmo Vänskä (2002-2022)

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