Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra in London. Throughout its history, it changed hands several times the name.

After the EMI producer Walter Legge had collected together the best musicians of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, he founded the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945 as a purely orchestral records. His "education" he put into the hands of Herbert von Karajan.

1964 EMI announced, no longer wanting to continue to pay for the orchestra. The orchestra then joined as a private association together and began to organize concerts. Since the conductor Ling Tung the name Philharmonia Orchestra Camden had for an orchestra in New Jersey can be protected legally, the musicians feared legal trouble because of the use of the former name and initially called themselves the New Philharmonia Orchestra. 1977 returned the orchestra back to the original name, from 1988 it was called simply The Philharmonia. Since 2000, the orchestra again as Philharmonia Orchestra in appearance and has manifested the name to a word mark (see illustration).

The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the most prestigious orchestras in the world, with more than 1,000 CD and CD recordings of one of the world's most sought-after orchestra. Since 1995, the Royal Festival Hall permanent venue of the orchestra.

With the start of the 2008/09 season took Esa-Pekka Salonen, the post of chief conductor; Christoph von Dohnányi was simultaneously appointed Honorary Conductor.

Chief Conductor

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