Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra
The Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra (original name: Lower Saxony Orchestra, later: Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra) from Hanover (NSO) was founded in 1934. Fritz Lehmann was chief conductor until 1938 .
history
At the beginning of the 1938/39 concert season, Helmuth Thierfelder (1897–1966) took over the management of the orchestra - the responsibility for local and national concerts and festival performances. The first existing crisis came in 1950 when the then NWDR Hamburg founded a radio orchestra in Hanover - today's NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover - and a large number of the NSO's musicians switched to radio . The orchestra was then re-established under new sponsorship, consisting of the city of Hanover and the state of Lower Saxony . From then on, the new NSO rose steeply and was also used for Radio Bremen. In addition to Thierfelder, Rainer Koch was appointed second conductor from 1961 to 1965. In 1964 Thierfelder resigned from his post as chief conductor, and Rudolf Alberth - coming from Munich - took over the position of chief conductor. Robert Stehli succeeded Koch in 1965 as the second conductor. Hans Zanotelli and Franz-Paul Decker were won as guest conductors for a series of concerts. In 1968, due to lack of funds, the NSO could not be continued by the State of Lower Saxony, so the orchestra was dissolved at the end of the 1967/68 season.
literature
- Heinrich Sievers: The music in Hanover. Sponholtz, Hannover 1961, DNB 890118590
- Chronicle: 135 years of the Lower Saxony Choir Hanover
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Koch ( memento of March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at opern-freund.de.