Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

The Orchestra of the 18th Century ( Dutch: " Orkest van de Achttiende eeuw " ) is a Dutch symphony orchestra, which specializes in historical performance practice and was founded in 1981 by Frans Brüggen.

The orchestra consists of about 60 musicians of different nationalities, all specialists who play on period instruments or copies thereof. In the layout and size of the orchestra corresponds to the models that were common at the turn of the 19th century in Vienna, London or Paris.

Has specialized in the orchestra works by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean -Philippe Rameau and their contemporaries, but also works of Frederic Chopin and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy be played.

The concert master of the orchestra was Lucy van Dael, Rémy Baudet and now Marc Destrubé take this task. The orchestra meets two to three times a year in order to develop new concert programs with subsequent performance in domestic and foreign concert halls. Were recorded more than 50 recordings for the Philips label.