Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg

The Hamburg Philharmonic in the Great Hall of the Laeiszhalle (Hamburg Music Hall)

The Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg is the orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg and plays concerts in the Elbphilharmonie as well as opera and ballet performances in the Hamburg State Opera . The American conductor Kent Nagano is the chief conductor and Hamburg General Music Director .

history

The Philharmonic dates its foundation on November 9th, 1828 (foundation of the Philharmonic Society , "Association for the Performance of Winter Concerts"). In 1896 the "Verein Hamburgischer Musikfreunde" was founded with the aim of providing funding for a permanent Hamburg symphony orchestra that is independent of the season. In the first few years of its existence, the “Philharmonic Society” used the “Apollo Hall” in the turning path 3–5 for its concerts (near today's State Opera). Josef Sittard reports in his “History of the Music and Concert Industry in Hamburg - from the 14th Century to the Present” (1890) that Clara Schumann , who was considered “a favorite of the Hamburgers”, in the period from 1835 to 1881 in performed nineteen times at the Philharmonic Concerts, d. H. already at sixteen. In 1908 the orchestra played a gala concert for the inauguration of the “music hall”, today's Laeiszhalle . In 1934, after chief conductor Karl Muck retired after his last concert on May 19, 1933, the orchestra was merged with the Hamburg Opera Orchestra to form the “Philharmonic State Orchestra”; Eugen Jochum took over the management (until 1949).

Notable concerts

• German premiere of the Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky , conducted by the composer. Tchaikovsky dedicated the work to the board of the Philharmonic Society Theodor Avé-Lallemant (1889)
• Gustav Mahler conducts the Hamburg premiere of his 5th Symphony (1905)
• The first appearance of the pianist Walter Gieseking and the twelve-year-old Yehudi Menuhin in Germany. Sergej Prokofjew and Igor Stravinsky perform at the Philharmonic's podium (1922)
• There was a unique encounter between two celebrities of classical music in April 1973 in the Hamburg Music Hall : Carlos Kleiber conducted the Philharmonic State Orchestra in Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli on the grand piano.
• World premiere of Jörg Widmann's oratorio ARCHE on January 13, 2017 in the Elbphilharmonie on the occasion of the Elbphilharmonie opening festival

Chief conductor

• Max Fiedler (1904–1908)
• Siegmund von Hausegger and Gerhard von Keußler (1910–1920)
• Karl Muck (1922–1934)
• Eugen Jochum (1934–1949)
• Joseph Keilberth (1951–1961)
• Wolfgang Sawallisch (1961–1973 - honorary conductor since 2004 and honorary member of the orchestra since the last concert as GMD on May 28, 1973)
• Horst Stein (1973–1976)
• Aldo Ceccato (1976-1982)
• Hans Zender (1984–1988)
• Gerd Albrecht (1988–1997)
• Ingo Metzmacher (1997-2005)
• Simone Young (2005-2015)
• Kent Nagano (since 2015)

Web links

• Official website
• The Philharmonic State Orchestra in the Elbphilharmonie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/geschichtedesmu00sittgoog#page/n4/mode/2up
2. ^ Joachim E. Wenzel: History of the Hamburg Philharmonic 1829-1979 . Christians, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-7672-0668-4 , pp. 20 .
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ Philharmoniker Hamburg, 185th concert season: Orchestra members ( memento of October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ PDF at www.philharmonisches-staatsorchester-hamburg.de ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.