Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in London . In the course of its history it changed names several times.
After EMI producer Walter Legge had gathered the best musicians in the United Kingdom during World War II , he founded the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945 as a pure record orchestra . He placed his “education” in the hands of Herbert von Karajan .
In 1964 EMI announced that it no longer wanted to finance the orchestra. The orchestra musicians then merged as a private association and began to organize concerts. Since the conductor Ling Tung had the name Philharmonia Orchestra Camden for an orchestra in New Jersey protected, the musicians feared legal difficulties because of the use of the previous name and initially called themselves the New Philharmonia Orchestra . In 1977 the orchestra returned to its original name, from 1988 it was simply called The Philharmonia . Since 2000 the orchestra has appeared again as the Philharmonia Orchestra and has manifested the name in a word mark (see illustration).
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the most renowned orchestras in the world and, with more than 1,000 CD and vinyl recordings, is one of the world's most sought-after orchestras. The Royal Festival Hall has been the orchestra's permanent venue since 1995 .
At the beginning of the 2008/09 season, Esa-Pekka Salonen took over the post of chief conductor. Christoph von Dohnányi and Wladimir Aschkenasi hold the position of honorary conductor. The composer Unsuk Chin is the artistic director of the orchestra's new music series, "Music of Today".
Chief conductor
- Otto Klemperer (1959–1973)
- Riccardo Muti (1973–1982)
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1984–1997)
- Christoph von Dohnányi (1997-2008)
- Esa-Pekka Salonen (since 2008)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Uehling: Karajan. A biography , 2nd edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-62287-8