18th century orchestra

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The orchestra of the 18th century (Dutch: "Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw") is a Dutch symphony orchestra which has specialized in historical performance practice and was founded in 1981 by Frans Brüggen († 2014).

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The orchestra consists of around 60 musicians of various nationalities, all of them specialists who play historical instruments or copies of them. In terms of division and size, the orchestra corresponds to the models that were common in Vienna, London and Paris at the turn of the 19th century.

The orchestra specializes in works by Bach , Rameau , Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven and their contemporaries, but works by Chopin and Mendelssohn Bartholdy are also played.

Lucy van Dael was one of the orchestra's concert masters , and Rémy Baudet and Marc Destrubé have now taken on this task. The orchestra meets two to three times a year to develop new concert programs with subsequent performances in concert halls in Germany and abroad. More than 50 recordings have been made for the Philips label.

After Frans Brüggen's death, the orchestra members agreed to continue to perform several annual concert programs in future, but in future they will be led by guest conductors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schreiber: Lust for the truth. A pioneer of early music: the Dutch recorder virtuoso and conductor Frans Brüggen has died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 16, 2014, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Orchestra of the 18th Century: The Repertoire

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