Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra
The Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester was an orchestral association in Vienna that existed until 1933.
history
The previous institution was the Tonkünstler-Sozietät, which was founded in 1771 on the initiative of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann . The society should organize music events for the public in Vienna. The oratorio La Betulia liberata , composed by Gassmann and premiered on March 19, 1772, was the first performance of the society, whose task it was in particular to look after the widows and orphans of deceased members.
The name of the orchestra goes back to this historical musical establishment and lived on in the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, which was founded at the beginning of the 20th century and which gave its first concert on October 10, 1907 at the Vienna Musikverein under the conductors Oskar Nedbal , Hans Pfitzner and Bernhard Stavenhagen with works by Goldmark, Grieg, Liszt and Beethoven. The Vienna Tonkünstler-Orchester wrote music history in 1913 with the world premiere of Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder under the direction of Franz Schreker . The Sunday afternoon concerts of the Tonkünstler Orchestra became very popular with the Viennese public. During the First World War, the Tonkünstler and the so-called Wiener Concertverein had to merge due to material needs. In 1921 it became the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, later the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . The association of the Tonkünstler-Orchester remained in existence as a concert organizer until 1933.
Literature (selection)
- Claudia Pete: History of the Wiener Tonkünstler-Societät . Typed Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1996. 205 pp. [With ill.]
- Rita Steblin : Who Commissioned Schubert's Oratorio "Lazarus"? A solution to the mystery. Salieri and the Tonkünstler-Societät. In: Schubert: Perspectives. 9, 2010, pp. 145-181.