Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ( Norwegian Bergen filharmoniske orkester ) is a Norwegian orchestra based in Bergen , Vestland .
The musicians perform in the Grieghalle , a building with a capacity of 1,500 people.
history
The organization was founded in 1765 under the name Det Musicalske Selskab and later renamed Musikselskabet Harmonie by the Bergen people .
After World War I there was a competing interest between Bergen and Oslo (then Kristiania) to have the largest orchestra in the country. In 1919 Bergen gave 40 musicians jobs, by 2015 the number rose to 100.
The orchestra has a long tradition of interpreting contemporary classical music. Ludwig van Beethoven's Second Symphony was first performed in the concert hall before it was performed in Berlin in 1804.
The composer Edvard Grieg , whose education is connected with the orchestra, whose conductor he was from 1880 to 1882, bequeathed part of his estate to the orchestra's scholarship foundation. Other composers who directed the ensemble were Arvid Fladmoe , Johan Halvorsen , Iver Holter and others. a.
The orchestra is also available for opera performances ( Bergen Nasjonale Opera ).
Chief conductor
- Samuel Lind (1765–1769)
- Benjamin Ohle (1769–1770)
- Niels Haslund (1770–1785)
- Ole Pedersen Rødder (1785–1805)
- J. Hindrich Paulsen (1805-1806, 1809-1820)
- Mathias Lundholm (1820-1827)
- Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy (1827–1844)
- Ferdinand August Rojahn (1856-1859)
- Otto Lübert (1855-1856)
- Ferdinand A. Rojahn (1856-1859)
- August Fries (1859–1862, 1864–1873)
- Amadeus Wolfgang Maczewsky (1862–1864)
- Richard Henneberg (1873–1875)
- Adolf Blomberg (1875-1878)
- Herman Levy (1879-1880)
- Edvard Grieg (1880-1882)
- Iver Holter (1882-1886)
- Per Winge (1886–1888)
- Georg Washington Magnus (1892-1893)
- Johan Halvorsen (1893–1898)
- Christian Danning (1899–1901, 1902–1905)
- Harald Heide (1907–1948)
- Olav Kielland (1948–1952)
- Carl von Garaguly (1952–1958)
- Arvid Fladmoe (1958–1961)
- Karsten Andersen (1964–1985)
- Aldo Ceccato (1985–1990)
- Dmitri Kitajenko (1990-1998)
- Simone Young (1998-2002)
- Andrew Litton (2003-2015)
- Edward Gardner (since 2015)