Wiener Philharmoniker

This article deals with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, for the coin of the same name see Vienna Philharmonic (coin) .

Wiener Philharmoniker
legal form	Association ( ZVR : 916027886)
founding	1842
founder	Otto Nicolai
Seat	Vienna
Chair	Daniel Froschauer
Managing directors	Michael Bladerer
Website	www.wienerphilharmoniker.at

The Vienna Philharmonic is made up of members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and is considered one of the leading orchestras in the world. In 2006 and 2007 the Vienna Philharmonic was voted the best orchestra in Europe by “music critics from the most important European specialist magazines and radio stations” under the leadership of the monthly magazine Le Monde de la musique . In 2008 the orchestra was ranked 3rd (worldwide) by the classical music magazine Gramophone in its December issue.

history

Vienna Philharmonic during a concert rehearsal at the Musikverein (1926). The musicians at the time were headed by Felix von Weingartner .

The first concert of the Vienna Philharmonic took place on March 28, 1842 in the Great Redoutensaal in Vienna under the direction of Otto Nicolai (1810–1849) as the “Philharmonic Academie” announced by August Schmidt in the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung . Alfred Julius Becher was co-organizer . The musicians were members of the orchestra of the kk Hofoper in Vienna, where professional musicians came together for the first time to form an existing concert orchestra.

After Otto Nicolai left Vienna in 1847, only ten concerts had taken place until 1860. The next significant date in the orchestra's history is January 15, 1860, when the then court opera director Carl Eckert conducted the first subscription concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Kärntnertortheater . Until 1903 and from 1908 to 1933, the musicians each selected a conductor for the subscription concerts of a season. Guest conductors conducted and conducted between 1903 and 1908 and since 1933.

One of the most important subscription conductors is Otto Dessoff, who between 1860 and 1875 expanded the repertoire and made administrative changes, including in 1870 the choice of the newly built " Golden Hall " of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna , which was founded in 1812 and which is still the most important place of activity of the orchestra is.

The orchestra achieved a special reputation under the conductor Hans Richter (subscription conductor from 1883 to 1898). The musicians worked u. a. with Johannes Brahms , Anton Bruckner and Richard Wagner . The world premieres of Brahms' 2nd and 3rd symphonies and Bruckner's 8th symphony are considered the high point of his era.

Richter was followed by Gustav Mahler , subscription conductor from 1898 to 1901. Under his direction, a new era began with the first foreign guest appearance at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . With Felix von Weingartner , the conductor of the subscription concerts from 1908 to 1927, the orchestra made two guest appearances in South America in 1922 and 1923 for several weeks and gave more than 80 concerts in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. It was the first tour of a European orchestra in Latin America. In 1922 the orchestra played at the first opera performances at the Salzburg Festival .

The last permanent subscription conductors were Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927 to 1930) and Clemens Krauss (1930 to 1933). Between 1906 and 1944 Richard Strauss conducted many concerts and was closely associated with the orchestra. From 1933 to 1937 the collaboration with Arturo Toscanini caused a sensation. Bruno Walter , who first conducted the orchestra in 1907 , also played an important role .

Conductors

Up until 1933, the Philharmonic chose a conductor every year who was to conduct all subscription concerts that season, but who did not carry the title of “chief conductor”. This system was abandoned and from now on various guest conductors were hired for the concerts and tours. The orchestra had a special relationship between 1933 and 1937 with Arturo Toscanini and between 1933 and 1945 and between 1947 and 1954 with Wilhelm Furtwängler , who was a kind of principal conductor of the orchestra until 1954. Bruno Walter , who conducted the Philharmonic in the 1930s and returned to Vienna in the 1940s to conduct concerts with works by Gustav Mahler , including recordings with the alto Kathleen Ferrier and a Mahler concert , also played an important role in the Vienna State Opera .

The Philharmonic also worked with many great conductors . A particularly long-lasting collaboration existed with the later honorary conductors Karl Böhm and Herbert von Karajan as well as with the honorary member Leonard Bernstein , who performed with the orchestra from 1966 and with him a. a. again worked out the work of Mahler.

time of the nationalsocialism

In contrast to the Berlin Philharmonic , where only a maximum of 20% of all musicians belonged to the NSDAP , the Vienna Philharmonic had a high number of party members. Even before the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938, 25% of musicians were so-called "illegals" who had joined the party when it was banned in Austria. By the end of the war in 1945, the number of party members and members of party-affiliated organizations rose to almost 50%. 15 musicians, including Ricardo Odnoposoff , were removed from the orchestra in 1938 for “racial reasons” or because of their political stance. Six Jewish Philharmonic orchestras were later murdered in concentration camps, and a young violinist was killed on the Eastern Front.

After the “Anschluss”, the Vienna Philharmonic suffered massive financial losses, according to Oliver Rathkolb . In the course of the research commissioned by the orchestra in 2012/2013, which was carried out by Rathkolb, Bernadette Mayrhofer and Fritz Trümpi and has not yet been completed, the subscriber book was found in a cellar of the State Opera: among the subscribers there was a high proportion until 1938 of the educated Jewish bourgeoisie. ... a good part of the audience and the patrons disappeared.

→ Main article : List of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra expelled and murdered by the Nazi regime

In 1938, the National Socialists released all Jewish artists from the Vienna State Opera and dissolved the Vienna Philharmonic Association on December 7th. After an intervention by Wilhelm Furtwängler, this dissolution was withdrawn a few days later by the "Department X Music" of the Propaganda Ministry. On July 20, 1939, the new form of the association was fixed according to the specifications of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels : “I. The organization retains its independence and is placed under the supervision of the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Berlin. II. The assets are released ... Changes to the statutes are to be made ... "The" club leader "could no longer be elected by the orchestra members, but was appointed by Minister Goebbels in agreement with the Gauleiter of Vienna. All resolutions had to be confirmed by Goebbels in order to become legally effective. Furthermore, the “rights of the Aryan members” had to be laid down in new statutes. The conductors could no longer be freely chosen either. The trips abroad were restricted; Vienna's Reich Governor and Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach succeeded in exempting almost all members from military service. The first New Year's concert, which Clemens Krauss conducted on December 31, 1939, also took place at this time.

In 1942, in Vienna, Innere Stadt (1st district), at the instigation of Schirach, on the occasion of the orchestra's 100th anniversary , the part of Augustinerstraße located directly behind the Vienna State Opera was named Philharmonikerstraße . Reich Minister Arthur Seyß-Inquart , the last Austrian Chancellor for two days for two days in March 1938 and dictatorial signatory of the “ Anschlussgesetz ”, executed in 1946 for Nazi crimes, received the Ring of the Vienna Philharmonic for the anniversary . At the festival meeting of the orchestra on March 31, 1942, its protector Schirach took part. The orchestra thanked Schirach for the festivities he initiated from March 25 to April 21, 1942 and for honoring its members with the Vienna Philharmonic's Ring of Honor . The awards for Seyß-Inquart, Schirach and four other National Socialists were revoked on October 23, 2013 by a unanimous orchestra decision.

The ring of honor was taken from Schirach by the Americans who captured him in 1945. As Schirach's son announced without naming the bearer, Schirach later received another copy of the ring of honor. In 2012/2013 it was clarified on behalf of the orchestra that there was a high probability that Helmut Wobisch , illegal National Socialist, SS man in the July coup in 1934, denouncer, removed from the orchestra in 1945, but from 1953-1969 managing director of the Vienna Philharmonic, this second copy without this there was an association resolution on this, which Schirach handed over to him after his release in 1966.

Time after 1945

Only a few days after the end of the war, the Vienna Philharmonic resumed its concert activities. On April 27, 1945, under the direction of Clemens Krauss, they played the first concert in liberated Vienna in the Konzerthaus. The musicians continued the tradition of inviting guest conductors that began in 1933. The collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm and Herbert von Karajan became particularly important.

One of the highlights of the Vienna Carnival has been the Vienna Philharmonic Ball, organized by orchestra members in the Musikverein, for the opening of which Richard Strauss composed the “Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare”.

Since 1997 women have also been able to become members of the Philharmonic. At the end of 2012, the proportion of women in the orchestra was around six percent. At the beginning of 2014, out of 128 active members who were not yet retired, seven were women, which corresponds to a proportion of women of 5.4 percent.

Since 2000, the Museum of the Vienna Philharmonic has been open to the public in the Haus der Musik on Vienna's Seilerstätte.

Since 2004, the Vienna Philharmonic's Summer Night Concert (initially as a “Concert for Europe”) has been held annually in the Schönbrunn Palace Gardens with free admission . This summer night concert is now broadcast on television in more than 60 countries around the world. Up to 100,000 people visit the concert event in Vienna every year. On May 31, 2018, there were even 104,500 visitors.

In the 2012/13 season there were two subscription series with ten concerts each, including the Nicolai concert as a memory of the founder, and since 1999 a soiré series with six to seven concerts. There is also the New Year's Concert (with three performances on December 30th and 31st and January 1st), guest performances (tours several times a year, mainly within Europe, the USA and Japan) and, since 1922, concerts and operas at the Salzburg Festival every summer, Ton - and DVD recordings and numerous special and benefit concerts (among other things, since 1999 the proceeds from the preview of the New Year's concert have been donated to charitable organizations).

After considerable criticism that the orchestra did not release all documents on historical research, the Vienna Philharmonic commissioned new research on their behavior during the Nazi era and afterwards in 2012/13 and published results together with the research team in March 2013 (see section NS -Time).

The Vienna Philharmonic supported an Amnesty International school project with more than 100,000 euros .

Under the patronage of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Attersee International Orchestra Institute take place every year, where orchestra members and conductors teach young musicians the Viennese sound style. The International Music Forum Trenta for the next generation of string players is also under the patronage of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

New Years Concert

→ Main article : New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic

The traditional New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic takes place on January 1st, i.e. on New Year's Day. It is mainly dedicated to the works of the Strauss dynasty . The Strauss concerts on New Year's Day have existed since 1941. They were called the "Johann Strauss Concert Philharmonic Academy"; a preliminary concert took place on New Year's Eve 1939. Only after the war were the concerts given the name New Year's Concert.

On April 22nd, 1873, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra met Johann Strauss (son) for the first time during the Vienna Court Opera Ball in the Musikverein . For this ball, Strauss composed the waltz "Wiener Blut", op. 354. Three more concerts followed by 1878, after which there were contacts and signs of mutual appreciation until the composer's death in 1899, but no performances. The celebrations for the composer's 100th birthday brought a turning point. On October 25, 1925, Felix von Weingartner conducted a “Strauss concert”. The waltz “ On the Beautiful Blue Danube ”, op. 314 , had already established itself as a popular encore on trips abroad. The actual Strauss tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic, later also documented by sound recordings, was founded by Clemens Krauss with a concert on August 11, 1929 as part of the Salzburg Festival, where a Strauss concert was given every summer until 1933 under his direction.

The first Strauss concert at the turn of the year under Clemens Krauss was held during the Second World War as an “extraordinary concert” with a “public dress rehearsal” on the morning of December 31, 1939 and in the afternoon of December 30, 1939 in the Society's “Golden Hall” performed by Musikfreunde in Vienna. The program consisted exclusively of compositions by Johann Strauss Sohn.

The first New Year's concert on the morning of January 1, 1941, took place as part of the "Second Philharmonic Academy". Works by Josef Strauss and Johann Strauss Sohn were performed. Clemens Krauss conducted the New Year's Concert until 1954. During the time he was banned from conducting in 1946/47, Josef Krips conducted , and in 1946 the “ Radetzky March ”, op. 228 by Johann Strauss (father) appears in the program for the first time. The waltz “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”, op. 314 and the “Radetzky March”, op. 228 are still available as encores at the end of the New Year's Concert.

After the sudden death of Clemens Krauss, the Vienna Philharmonic decided on their concertmaster Willi Boskovsky as their successor. From 1955 to 1979 he conducted the New Year's Concert. Following the tradition of Johann Strauss, he repeatedly took up the violin. From 1980 to 1986, Boskovsky was followed by Lorin Maazel (also in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2005) as the conductor of the New Years Concerts. Since then, the conductor has been elected annually by the Vienna Philharmonic. These are conductors closely associated with the orchestra such as Claudio Abbado , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Mariss Jansons , Herbert von Karajan , Carlos Kleiber , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti , Seiji Ozawa and Franz Welser-Möst .

At the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1992 , Otto Nicolai commemorated the founding of the Vienna Philharmonic, with the overture from The Merry Wives of Windsor played as a prelude .

Under Boskovsky, Austrian television broadcast the concert live for the first time in 1959. The concert will be broadcast in the flower-decked “Golden Hall” of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna by ORF in more than 70 countries and reaches an average of more than 40 million viewers every year. Ballet interludes and films about individual works are also integrated into the television broadcast. The recordings on CD and DVD, which appear a few days after the concert, achieved high sales figures. The DVD of the New Year's Concert exceeds sales of very popular opera DVDs by up to ten times (data: Universal Music Austria, 2006). In an online ORF survey in 2006, the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert was voted Austria's most popular national symbol.

organization

The Vienna Philharmonic is organized as a private association. They are made up of members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra . The association's statutes state that a musician must have played in the State Opera Orchestra for at least three years before he can apply for membership in the association.

Since it was founded, the Vienna Philharmonic has been both an opera and a concert orchestra. The symbiosis ensures the musicians as employees of the Vienna State Opera a fixed income, which ensures the independence of the Vienna Philharmonic as a concert entrepreneur. The Vienna State Opera, in turn, benefits from the quality that is maintained in many rehearsals that are held in addition to the opera.

The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are not only responsible for the selection of programs, conductors and soloists, but also for organization, ticket sales and financial management. All decisions are made in assemblies based on democratic principles, with daily business being carried out by a 12-person committee elected by the assembly of all orchestra members.

The general assembly of all members elects a committee every four years, which takes on the day-to-day work such as concert and travel planning, ticket sales, ball organization, archive work and financial management.

Board members (selection)

• 1899 to 1903: Franz Simandl
• 1923 to 1932: Alexander Wunderer
• 1932 to 1933: Karl Hawranek
• from 1932: Hugo Burghauser
• 1939 to 1945: Wilhelm Jerger
• 1945 to 1946: Friedrich Sedlak
• 1946 to 1947: Gottfried Freiberg
• 1947 to 1953: Rudolf Hanzl
• 1958 to 1966: Otto Strasser
• 1966 to 1969: Walter Barylli
• 1978 to 1987: Alfred Altenburger
• 1987 to 1997: Werner Resel
• 1997 to 2014: Clemens Hellsberg
• 2014 to August 31, 2017: Andreas Großbauer
• from September 1, 2017: Daniel Froschauer

sound

The Philharmoniker are to this day the model for the so-called Viennese sound style : The instruments of wind instruments and percussion of the Vienna Philharmonic differ from those of other large orchestras, which leads to a significantly different sound. The string groups use common instruments, but traditionally maintain a special sound ideal, which the new members are familiarized with by the more experienced players and which is also known as the “Viennese string sound”. The international development during the 19th century towards ever larger volumes of sound did not take place here to this extent.

The horn players blow on a simple F horn with pump valves and an attached circularly curved leadpipe, the Vienna horn . The Vienna Philharmonic is the only orchestra in the world in which all horn players have mastered the Vienna horn, while in other Vienna orchestras only some of the instrumentalists master this instrument, and the F / B-flat double horn prevails in practically all other orchestras . Special, otherwise unused instruments are also used in other vocal groups , such as the clarinet (special features compared to the German clarinet in terms of bore diameter, mouthpiece and reeds), the bassoon , the trombone and the trumpet . The use of the Vienna F tuba and the Vienna oboe is remarkable . All fur instruments are covered with goat parchment, plastic heads are not used. In the Viennese timpani , the movable cup is pressed against the skin.

This makes the sound of the orchestra more authentic in the historical sense. The orchestra comes closer to the sound of the Viennese Classic and the Viennese School than other modern orchestras.

Conductors

Wiener Musikverein Great Hall

Open-air concert by the Philharmonic, Schönbrunn 2009.

Philharmonic Academy 1842–1860

• Otto Nicolai (1842–1847)

Subscription Conductor 1860–1933

(elected annually for all concert conductors in a season)

• Karl Anton Eckert (1860)
• Felix Otto Dessoff (1860–1875)
• Hans Richter (1875–1882)
• Wilhelm Jahn (1882-1883)
• Hans Richter (1883–1898)
• Gustav Mahler (1898–1901)
• Josef Hellmesberger junior (1901–1903)
• Felix Weingartner , Edler von Münzberg (1908–1927)
• Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927–1930)
• Clemens Krauss (1929–1933)

Guest conductor 1933–1945

• Arturo Toscanini
• Clemens Krauss
• Bruno Walter
• Hans Knappertsbusch
• Willem Mengelberg
• Karl Bohm
• John Barbirolli

Guest conductor 1945–1992 with a few addenda

Surname	Number of subscription concerts conducted	Year of the first u. last appearance in the cycle
Karl Bohm	57	1952-1980
Claudio Abbado	41	1967-2014
Zubin Mehta	29 +	1964–
Lorin Maazel	28	1962-20 ??
Hans Knappertsbusch	26th	1947-1964
Wilhelm Furtwängler	22nd	1947-1954
Herbert von Karajan	18th	1946-1985
Otto Klemperer		1959-1968
Clemens Krauss	14th	1947-1954
André Previn	14 +	1978–
Leonard Bernstein	13	1966-1988
Christoph von Dohnányi	13 +	1975–
Bernard Haitink	12 +	1972–
Rafael Kubelík	11	1954-1971
Mario Rossi	10	1953-1963
Horst Stein	10	1970-2008
Carlos Kleiber	09	1974-1994
James Levine	09 +	1982–
Riccardo Muti	09 +	1975–
Carl Schuricht	08th	1956-1965
Sir Georg Solti	08th	1961-1997
Carlo Maria Giulini	07th	1984-2005
Erich Leinsdorf	07th	1947-1993
Dimitri Mitropoulos	07th	1956-1960
André Cluytens	05	1955-1958
Eugene Ormandy	05	1956-1969
George Szell	05	1966-1968
Volkmar Andreae	04th	1947-1949
Josef Krips	04th	1945-1947
Václav Neumann	04th	1987-1995
Sir Charles Mackerras	04th	1979-2008
Seiji Ozawa	04 +	1990–
Mariss Jansons	04 +
Christian Thielemann	04 +
Eugene Jochum	03	1972-1982
István Kertész	03	1964-1972
Sir Colin Davis	02 +	1988–
Werner Egk	02	1962-1971
Franz Welser-Möst	02	2011-2013
Hiroyuki Iwaki	02	1977-1988
Karl Krueger	02	1946
Pierre Monteux	02	1959-1960
Rudolf Moralt	02	1945-1947
Georges Prêtre	02 +	1963–
Daniele Gatti	02 +
Ernest Ansermet	01	1951
Sir John Barbirolli	01	1967
Daniel Barenboim	01 +	1991–
Erich Binder	01	1981
Boris Blacher	01	1963
Fritz Busch	01	1950
Riccardo Chailly	01	1980
János Ferencsik	01	1982
Wolfgang Fortner	01	1969
Ferenc Fricsay	01	1961
George Georgescu	01	1962
Hans Graf	01	1987
Leopold Hager	01	1982
Nikolaus Harnoncourt	01 +	1984–
Anton Heiller	01	1968
Paul Hindemith	01	1963
Joseph Keilberth	01	1952
Aram Khachaturian	01	1961
Frank Martin	01	1967
Carl Melles	01	1970
Paul Paray	01	1946
Christoph Prick	01	1978
Felix Prohaska	01	1945
Karl Richter	01	1974
Gennady Roshdestvensky	01	1978
Wolfgang Sawallisch	01	1986
Ulf Schirmer	01	1992
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski	01	1971
Hans Swarowsky	01	1970
Alfred Uhl	01	1966
Bruno Walter	01	1955
Giuseppe Sinopoli	01 +
Pierre Boulez	01
John Eliot Gardiner	01
Sir Roger Norrington	01
Marcello Viotti	01
Leopold Stokowski	01
Mariss Jansons	01 +
Gustavo Dudamel	01 +

Concert subscriptions

For certain subscriptions , in order to regularly listen to Philharmonic concerts, you have to register as an interested party annually in order not to be placed back on the waiting list. So you wait up to 14 years to receive the subscription, which is not automatically granted to the heirs. Individual tickets may be passed on or returned for remaining ticket sales.

Awards and honors

The Vienna Philharmonic has received numerous awards for its work, including honorary memberships in many organizations.

The Republic of Austria honored the orchestra in 1988 with the publication of the Vienna Philharmonic , the first and highly coveted gold bar coin in Europe.

In 2006/2007, the Austrian airline Austrian Airlines operated an Airbus A340-313X under the name Philharmoniker with a special paint scheme that shows typical instruments of the orchestra and the gold coin of the same name.

In 2014 the Vienna Philharmonic was awarded the Birgit Nilsson Prize and the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize.

Chart placements

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1964	The New Years Concert	DE13 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Willi Boskovsky
1972	Spartacus	-	-	-	UK16 (15 weeks) UK	Aram Chatschaturjan / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
1981	The century ball	DE4 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1992	Strauss - music of a dynasty	-	AT18 (5 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Willi Boskovsky
1993	Carmen fantasy	DE37 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Anne-Sophie Mutter / James Levine / Vienna Philharmonic
1996	New Year's Concert 1996	-	AT3 gold (16 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Lorin Maazel Sales: + 25,000
1997	New Year's Concert 1997	-	AT7th gold (12 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Riccardo Muti Sales: + 25,000
1998	New Years Concert 1998	-	AT15th gold (9 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta Sales: + 25,000
1999	New Year's Concert 1999	DE33 (6 weeks) DE	AT4th gold (11 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Lorin Maazel Sales: + 25,000
2000	New Year's Concert 2000	DE52 (3 weeks) DE	AT8th platinum (11 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Riccardo Muti Sales: + 50,000
2001	New Year's Concert 2001	DE45 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (38 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Sales: + 80,000
2002	New Year's Concert 2002	DE37 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (37 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Seiji Ozawa Sales: + 480,000
	Best of New Years Concert	-	AT25th gold (8 weeks)AT	-	-	Sales: + 20,000
2003	New Years Concert 2003	DE41 (3 weeks) DE	AT1 × 3 Triple platinum (26 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Sales: + 90,000
	Opera Arias	DE56 (21 weeks) DE	AT40 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	Anna Netrebko / Vienna Philharmonic / Noseda
2004	Best of New Year's Concert 2	-	AT51 (4 weeks) AT	-	-
	New Years Concert 2004	DE59 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Riccardo Muti Sales: + 60,000
	Concert for Europe - The Schönbrunn Concert	-	AT19th gold (10 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Bobby McFerrin Sales: + 15,000
2005	New Years Concert 2005	DE44 (3 weeks) DE	AT1 (22 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Lorin Maazel
2006	New Years Concert 2006	DE23 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (17 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Mariss Jansons Sales: + 60,000
2007	New Year's Concert 2007	DE40 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (19 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta Sales: + 40,000
	Le nozze di Figaro	-	AT43 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Anna Netrebko / Bo Skovhus / Dorothea Röschmann / Christine Schäfer / Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir / Vienna Philharmonic / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2008	New Years Concert 2008	DE25 (4 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)AT	CH28 (3 weeks) CH	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Georges Prêtre Sales: + 40,000
	Karajan gold	DE31 (6 weeks) DE	AT49 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic / Vienna Philharmonic
	Summer night concert at Schönbrunn	-	AT27 (1 week) AT	-	-	Georges Prêtre / Vienna Philharmonic
	Chopin - The Piano Concertos	DE86 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-	Lang Lang / Vienna Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta
2009	New Years Concert 2009	DE35 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)AT	CH37 (3 weeks) CH	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Daniel Barenboim Sales: + 40,000
	Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2009	-	AT43 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Daniel Barenboim
2010	New Years Concert 2010	DE29 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 (30 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Georges Prêtre
	Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2010	-	AT27 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Franz Welser-Möst
2011	New Years Concert 2011	DE29 (3 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (27 weeks)AT	CH31 (3 weeks) CH	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Franz Welser-Möst Sales: + 40,000
	Fascination with sound	-	AT2 (6 weeks) AT	-	-
	Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2011 - Virtuoso Pictures	-	AT42 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	Benjamin Schmid / Vienna Philharmonic / Valery Gergiev
2012	Fascination Sound - Vol. 2	-	AT27 (3 weeks) AT	-	-
	New Years Concert 2012	DE12 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (28 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Mariss Jansons Sales: + 40,000
	Dances And Waves - Schönbrunn 2012 Summer Night Concert	-	AT37 (1 week) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel
2013	New Year's Concert 2013 / New Year's Concert 2013	DE37 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 platinum (24 weeks)AT	CH24 (4 weeks) CH	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Franz Welser-Möst Sales: + 15,000
	Summer Night Concert 2013	-	AT15 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Lorin Maazel / Michael Schade
	Brahms: The Piano Concertos	-	-	CH98 (1 week) CH	-	Hélène Grimaud / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vienna Philharmonic / Andris Nelsons
2014	New Year's Concert 2014 / New Year's Concert 2014	DE12 (7 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)AT	CH9 (4 weeks) CH	-	Daniel Barenboim / Vienna Philharmonic Sales: + 30,000
	Summer Night Concert 2014 - Summer Night Concert	-	AT16 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Eschenbach / Lang Lang
	The Mozart album	DE33 (12 weeks) DE	AT11 (12 weeks) AT	CH49 (7 weeks) CH	-	Lang Lang / Vienna Philharmonic / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2015	New Year's Concert 2015 - New Year's Concert	DE22 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (25 weeks)AT	-	-	Zubin Mehta / Vienna Philharmonic Sales: + 30,000
	Summer Night Concert 2015 - Summer Night Concert	-	AT31 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Mehta / Buchbinder
2016	New Year's Concert - The Complete Works	-	AT71 (1 week) AT	-	-
	New Year's Concert 2016 - New Year's Concert	DE10 (6 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (27 weeks)AT	CH8 (6 weeks) CH	-	Mariss Jansons / Vienna Philharmonic Sales: + 30,000
	Summer Night Concert 2016 / Summer Night Concert	-	AT8 (4 weeks) AT	-	-
2017	New Year's Concert 2017 - New Year's Concert	DE13 (6 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel Sales: + 30,000
	Mahler: The Song of the Earth	-	AT43 (1 week) AT	CH88 (1 week) CH	-	Jonas Kaufmann / Vienna Philharmonic / Jonathan Nott
	Summer Night Concert 2017 - Summer Night Concert	-	AT8 (1 week) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Christoph Eschenbach / Renée Fleming
2018	New Year's Concert 2018 - New Year's Concert	DE13 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (26 weeks)AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Riccardo Muti Sales: + 30,000
	Summer Night Concert 2018 - Summer Night Concert	-	AT3 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Valery Gergiev / Anna Netrebko
2019	New Year's Concert 2019 - New Year's Concert 2019	DE13 (7 weeks) DE	AT1 (16 weeks) AT	CH3 (7 weeks) CH	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Christian Thielemann
	Summer Night Concert 2019	-	AT15 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel / Yuja Wang
2020	New Year's Concert 2020 - New Year's Concert 2020	DE10 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 platinum (… Where.)AT	CH4 (5 weeks) CH	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Andris Nelsons sales: + 15,000
	John Williams in Vienna	DE7 (... weeks) DE	-	-	-	with Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams

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Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1971	Theme from The Onedin Line	-	-	-	UK15 (14 weeks) UK
2011	Johann Strauss II: On the beautiful blue Danube. Waltz, op.314	-	AT57 (1 week) AT	-	-	Vienna Philharmonic / Georges Prêtre

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Netherlands 1978: for the album De beroemdste muziek van de familie Strauss  Austria 1993: for the album New Years Concert 1993 1996: for the album New Years Concert 1994 1999: for the album Vivaldi: The Four Seasons 2000: for the album New Year's Concert 1987 2001: for the video album New Years Concert 2001 2004: for the video album New Years Concert 2004 2006: for the video album New Year's Concert 2006 2007: for the video album New Year's Concert 2007 2008: for the video album New Year's Concert 2008 2009: for the video album New Year's Concert 2009 2014: for the video album New Year's Concert 2014 2015: for the video album New Year's Concert 2015 2016: for the video album New Years Concert 2016 2017: for the video album New Years Concert 2017 2018: for the video album New Year's Concert 2018

Platinum record  Netherlands 1978: for the album Strauss concert in Wenen  Austria 1990: for the album New Year's Concert in Vienna 2011: for the video album New Year's Concert 2011 2012: for the video album New Year's Concert 2012 2 × platinum record  Japan 2002: for the album New Years Concert 2002

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Japan (RIAJ)	-	2 × platinum2	400,000	Individual evidence
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	platinum1	150,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	21 × gold21st	37 × platinum37	1,160,000	ifpi.at
All in all	22 × gold22nd	40 × platinum40

literature

• Clemens Hellsberg: Democracy of Kings. The history of the Vienna Philharmonic . Swiss publishing house, Zurich / Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna / Musikverlag Schott, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7957-0236-4 (Schott).
• Fritz Trümpi: Politicized orchestras. The Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under National Socialism . Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78657-3 .
• Musikblätter der Wiener Philharmoniker (1946–1949 under the title Wiener Musikblätter ) ZDB -ID 1144225-6 .

Web links

Commons : Vienna Philharmonic  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Vienna Philharmonic
• Complete discography in stereo by the Vienna Philharmonic (English, Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vienna Philharmonic best orchestra.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wien.orf.at, October 6, 2006; accessed on January 2, 2011.  
2. ↑ La monde de la musique: The best orchestras in Europe. ( Memento from February 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ These are the best orchestras in the world. Welt Online , November 18, 2008. Accessed January 2, 2011.
4. ↑ Clemens Hellsberg: Democracy of the Kings. The history of the Vienna Philharmonic . Swiss publishing house, Zurich / Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna / Musikverlag Schott, Mainz 1992, pp. 396–407.
5. ^ Friedemann Pestel: Global Trajectories and National Representation: German and Austrian Orchestras Touring Latin America in the 1960s . In: Daniela Fugellie, Ulrike Mühlschlegel , Matthias Pasdzierny, Christina Richter-Ibánez (eds.): Trayectorias - music between Latin America and Europe 1945–1970 / Trayectorias - música entre América Latina y Europa 1945–1970 . Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-935656-75-7 , pp. 43–57, here p. 43.
6. ^ Fritz Trümpi: Politized orchestras. The Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under National Socialism . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2011, p. 113
7. ^ Fritz Trümpi: Waltz for Nazis. The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics served the Nazi state as best the rival musicians could . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/2011, p. 16
8. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Trenkler: Riddle about the Philharmonic Ring for Schirach solved . In: Der Standard , Vienna, March 11, 2013, p. 15, and website of the paper from March 10, 2013
9. ↑ ^{a b} Late processing of a dark chapter. Outside view "long overdue" . ORF website, March 11, 2013
10. ↑ Gert Korentschnig: Dear Nazis: The disclosure . In: Kurier , Vienna, January 19, 2013, p. 25
11. ^ Ceremonial meeting of the Vienna Philharmonic . In: Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , Vienna, No. 76, March 31, 1942, p. 3
12. ^ Fritz Trümpi: Politized orchestras. The Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under National Socialism . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2011, p. 198
13. ^ Philharmonic: Nazi awards revoked . ORF website, December 22, 2013
14. ^ Historical archive of the Vienna Philharmonic
15. ↑ orf.at - Few women in the Vienna Philharmonic . December 28, 2012; Retrieved December 25, 2014.
16. ↑ The Vienna Philharmonic are not always a role model . diepresse.com, January 22, 2014; Retrieved December 25, 2014.
17. ↑ Summer night concert
18. ↑ Record number of visitors at the summer concert orf.at, May 31, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018.
19. ^ New Year's Concert: Commemoration of the First World War. On: wien.orf.at. December 28, 2013.
20. ^ Christian Fastl: Simandl, Franz. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
21. ↑ Christian Fastl: Wunderer, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
22. ↑ Uwe Harten : Hawranek, Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
23. ^ Uwe Harten : Burghauser, Hugo. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
24. ↑ Barbara Boisits: Jerger (own Jerabek), Wilhelm Franz. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
25. ^ Christian Fastl: Sedlak, Friedrich (Fritz). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
26. ↑ Uwe Harten : Freiberg, Gottfried Rudolf (Knight of). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
27. ^ Hanzl trial was postponed after 3 minutes ... In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 12, 1966, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). : "Professor [Rudolf] Hanzl was for six years, from 1947 to 1953, on the board of the Vienna Philharmonic. He made an international name for himself as a musician - as a bassoonist - and as a conductor and was not only present in Germany, but has also been showered with medals abroad. [...] "
28. ^ Entry on Rudolf Hanzl, conductor, b. on March 22, 1912 in Vienna,… In: Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon. Austrian National Library (Ed.), Accessed on July 23, 2016: “... from 1936 worked as a bassoonist at the Vienna State Opera , in the castle chapel and with the Philharmonic. From 1947 he headed the Philharmonic. [...] "
29. ↑ Entry on Rudolf Hanzl (grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery ) in the grave database of the Vienna cemeteries ; retrieved on July 23, 2016: "Date of birth 03/22/1912, age 85, date of death [none], date of burial 09/22/1997"
30. ↑ Alexander Rausch : Strasser, Otto. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
31. ^ Andrea Harrandt: Altenburger, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
32. ↑ Alexander Rausch : Resel, Werner. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 .
33. ^ Vienna Philharmonic: Daniel Froschauer inherits Andreas Großbauer with the Vienna Philharmonic . Kleine Zeitung, June 20, 2017; accessed on June 21, 2017.
34. ↑ Thomas Jöbstl : Influence of the musician and the instrument on the Viennese horn sound. ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2016 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. 2000, p. 4 (PDF, 11.4 MB). 
35. ^ The Viennese sound style ( Memento from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
36. ↑ Waiting up to 14 years for Philharmonic Subscription orf.at, October 13, 2014, accessed October 14, 2017.
37. ↑ Airbus A340-313X OE-LAL of Austrian Airlines in the livery "Philharmoniker". Photo by Gerhard Vysocan on Airliners.net , April 19, 2007. Retrieved on January 2, 2011.
38. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2
39. ↑ 2 × platinum for New Year's Concert 2002 in Japan ( Memento from February 25, 2020 in the Internet Archive )