Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg is the symphony orchestra of the city and state of Salzburg .
history
The orchestra has its roots in the "Dommusikverein und Mozarteum" founded in 1841 and was brought into being with the help of Constanze Mozart. It was originally the orchestra of the students of the music school and later the Mozarteum Academy . It has had its current name since 1908.
In 1939 the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra broke away from the academy at the time and became an orchestra of selected professional musicians and an independent institution. In 1958 it was expanded to become the symphony orchestra of the City and State of Salzburg and is now one of Austria's leading symphony orchestras.
From 2004 until the end of the 2015/16 season, Ivor Bolton was chief conductor of the orchestra. As an honorary conductor, he will remain associated with the orchestra in the future. Giovanni Antonini has been the principal guest conductor since the 2016/17 season . Thomas Wolfram has been the managing director since February 2014. In December 2016, Riccardo Minasi was appointed chief conductor to succeed Ivor Bolton.
tasks
The Mozarteum Orchestra organizes two of its own concert series: the Sunday matinees in the Großer Festspielhaus offer great symphonies from the classical to the present. The Thursday concerts are a themed concert series that seeks a balance between famous orchestral music and lesser known works. The focus, however, is on works of the Viennese Classic . For the Salzburg State Theater , the orchestra plays musical theater performances ranging from great operas to operettas, ballets and musicals, and for the Salzburg Cultural Association a large symphonic repertoire. The Mozarteum Orchestra represents the city and state of Salzburg on its international tours and acts as a musical ambassador. Every year in January and February several concerts take place as part of the Salzburg Mozart Week .
The orchestra works closely with the Salzburg Festival . The ensemble has been one of the pillars of the festival since 1921, has played the Mozart matinees in the Mozarteum since 1949 and since 1950 Mozart's Great Mass in C minor in the collegiate church of St. Peter , takes on serenades , concerts of sacred music and the musical accompaniment of the annual festival opening and the final concert of the Young Singers Project . Since 2008 the Mozarteum Orchestra has also been obliged by the Festival for large opera productions:
- 2008 and 2010 Gounods Roméo et Juliette under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and with Anna Netrebko and Nino Machaidze ( Felsenreitschule )
- 2009 Haydn's Armida (Felsenreitschule)
- 2011 concert performance of Le rossignol and Iolanta ( Großes Festspielhaus )
- 2012 Peter von Winters The Labyrinth (Residenzhof)
- 2014 World premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's Charlotte Salomon (Felsenreitschule)
The orchestra has 91 musicians and was led by international guest conductors such as Trevor Pinnock , Hans Graf , Robin Ticciati , Marc Minkowski , Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Mark Elder , Frans Brüggen , Andris Nelsons , Mark Wigglesworth and Thomas Dausgaard . The orchestra's home is in the so-called orchestra house next to the old Petersbrunnhof in Nonntal .
The work of the Mozarteum Orchestra is also documented on sound carriers. The CD releases on the Oehms Classics label include: a. numerous works by Mozart , Haydn's oratorios The Seasons and The Creation by Berlioz L'enfance du Christ as well as a cycle that has already started with Anton Bruckner's symphonies . On DVD are u. a. Gounods Roméo et Juliette with Rolando Villazón and Zarzuelas with Plácido Domingo published.
Official main sponsors of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg are Audi and Leica Camera AG .
Youth projects
A particular concern of the Mozarteum Orchestra is working with young people. In 2008 the Mozarteum Orchestra premiered its first commissioned work for the combination of professional orchestra and youth orchestra as part of its youth project “2 ORCHESTRAS”. The project was continued in the 2010/2011 season with a work by the composer Toshio Hosokawa. Accompanying music workshops for concerts and a musical school sponsorship are further initiatives in the field of youth work.
Chief conductor
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Conductors
As one of the first symphony orchestras, the orchestra engaged female conductors. As early as 1979, Hortense von Gelmini conducted a performance of Bruckner's symphony in D minor , the so-called zeroth, in the Great Festival Hall . In 2004 Julia Jones conducted Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio . The Lithuanian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was music director at the Salzburg State Theater from 2015 until the end of the 2016/2017 season .
See also
literature
- Joseph Schröcksnadel: Salzburg's musical ambassador. The Mozarteum Orchestra. Verlag Alfred Winter, Salzburg 1984, ISBN 3-85380-038-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at - Mozarteum Orchestra: Minasi new chief conductor . Article dated December 20, 2016, accessed December 20, 2016.
- ^ Archive of the Libertas per Veritatem Foundation, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg Concert, conducted by Hortense von Gelmini, Großes Festspielhaus, on December 14, 1979
- ↑ Das Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, 2015, p. 63
- ↑ Markus Thiel: Der Stern von Birmingham on merkur.de, December 14, 2016, accessed on October 11, 2019.