Saint Petersburg Philharmonic

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The St. Petersburg Philharmonic (full name Russian Заслуженный коллектив России Академический симфонический оркестр Санкт-Петербургской филармонии , Sasluschenny kollektiw Rossii Akademitscheski simfonitscheski orkestr St. Peterburgskoi filarmonii ; German Deserved collective of Russia Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic , in short: Russian ЗКР АСО SKR ASO ) are a Russian symphony orchestra . The orchestra is based in the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic .

It should not be confused with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic (ASO) founded in 1931 .

The roots of the orchestra go back to 1882. At that time a choir for the court of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. founded, which was converted into the "Symphonic Court Orchestra" in 1897. After the October Revolution in 1917, the function and organizational form of the orchestra changed. In 1921 it was converted into the "Petrograd State Philharmonic" and in 1924 it was renamed the "State Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic". When Leningrad was renamed Saint Petersburg in 1991, the "Leningrad Philharmonic" again became the "Saint Petersburg Philharmonic".

The orchestra's chief conductors in recent times have been Yevgeny Mrawinsky (1938–1988) and Juri Temirkanow (since 1988). From 1952 to 1984 the Latvian Arvid Jansons also conducted the orchestra, from 1973 its son Mariss Jansons . However, the orchestra has always worked with conductors with a western background. Kurt Sanderling was Mrawinski's deputy from 1942 to 1960. Even Otto Klemperer , Hans Kempe , Erich Kleiber , Herbert von Karajan , Leonard Bernstein , Pierre Boulez , Georg Solti and Claudio Abbado led the Orchestra.

Most of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies were premiered by the then Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of Mravinsky, as were many compositions by Sergei Prokofiev .

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