Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the oldest symphony orchestra in the world. Since 1957, the orchestra carries the title conferred by Queen Elizabeth II Royal, for decades the only orchestra in the UK.

The founding of the orchestra goes back to 1840 with the founding of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, where citizens could acquire shares to finance, at the same time had a Subskriptionscharakter. The first conductor was the Swiss Jakob Zeugheer. As of 1867 followed by Julius Benedict, Max Bruch and Charles Hallé three German conductor to 1895. Known chief conductor in the middle of the 20th century were Malcolm Sargent, Paul Kletzki, John Pritchard and Charles Groves. From 1977 to 1980, with Walter Weller first Austrian held the musical director from 1983 to 1986 Marek Janowski again a German. Current chief conductor Vasily Petrenko is whose contract extends to 2012, honorary conductor ( "conductor laureate " ) is Libor Pesek, who was already working as chief conductor from 1987 to 1997.

The orchestra played from 1849 until its destruction by fire in 1933 in the old Philharmonic Hall, which was known for its outstanding acoustics; Thomas Beecham held even for the best in Europe. At the same place in 1939 still used the same new building takes its inspiration from Art Deco and the Bauhaus was formed.

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Jacob Zeugheer ( 1843-65 ) | Alfred Mellon ( 1865-67 ) | Julius Benedict ( 1867-80 ) | Max Bruch ( 1880-83 ) | Charles Hallé ( 1883-95 ) | Frederic Hymen Cowen ( 1896-1913 ) | Louis Cohen ( 1932-42 ) | Malcolm Sargent ( 1942-48 ) | Rignold Hugo ( 1948-54 ) | Paul Kletzki ( 1954-55 ) | Efrem Kurtz ( 1955-57 ) | John Pritchard ( 1957-63 ) | Charles Groves ( 1963-77 ) | Walter Weller ( 1977-80 ) | David Atherton ( 1980-83 ) | Marek Janowski ( 1983-86 ) | Libor Pesek ( 1987-97 ) | Petr Altrichter (1997-2001 ) | Gerard Schwarz (2001 - 06) | Vasily Petrenko (since 2006)

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