Philharmonic ball

The Philharmonic Ball , along with the Opera Ball, is one of the highlights of the Vienna ball season .

The "Golden Hall" of the Musikverein during the 66th Philharmonic Ball on January 18, 2007

history

The Vienna Philharmonic Ball has been held 78 times to date (as of 2019). The first ball took place on March 4, 1924 - on this occasion Richard Strauss composed his own fanfare , which is played every year as part of the opening. Today the ball always takes place on the penultimate Thursday in January.

In 1991 the ball, like the Opera Ball, was canceled due to the Gulf War . The ball is held in the halls of the Vienna Music Association . At the ball there are 3,600 people in the music association, of which around 2,800 are ball guests and around 800 are participants.

From 1949 to 2010 there was the honorary function of the ball president, in 2011 this was replaced by a ball committee. In the summer of 2007, Andreas Großbauer was elected as head of the ball by the plenum of the Vienna Philharmonic. In 2014/15 he was followed by tuba player Paul Halwax as organizer of the Philharmonic Ball. Since 2017 it has been mandatory for men to wear tails at the Philharmonic Ball - just like at the Opera Ball .

Ball President

1949 to 1980: Maria Mautner Markhof
1981 to 1984: no president
1985 and 1986: Elisabeth Waldheim
1987 to 1989: no president
1990 to 2010: Eva Angyan

Ball committee

2011 to 2013: Rotraut Konrad, Marjana Lipovšek , Hannes Androsch , Dominique Meyer
since 2013: Rotraut Konrad, Madeleine Rohla-Strauss, Rudolf Hundstorfer , Dominique Meyer

opening

One of the highlights of the ball is the opening ceremony by the young women and men committee. The rehearsal of the opening choreography has been carried out again by the Elmayer dance school since 2000 .

Web links

Vienna Philharmonic - The History of the Philharmonic Ball

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Vienna Philharmonic - The History of the Philharmonic Ball . Retrieved October 24, 2015.
^ Andreas Großbauer on the website of the Vienna Philharmonic . Retrieved October 24, 2015.
↑ Host of the Philharmonic: "This music - I want to dance!" In: Die Presse . January 21, 2015, accessed January 22, 2020 .

[geschichte-1] Vienna Philharmonic - The History of the Philharmonic Ball . Retrieved October 24, 2015.

[2] Andreas Großbauer on the website of the Vienna Philharmonic . Retrieved October 24, 2015.

[3] Host of the Philharmonic: "This music - I want to dance!" In: Die Presse . January 21, 2015, accessed January 22, 2020 .