Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (full name Заслуженный коллектив России Академический симфонический оркестр Санкт - Петербургской филармонии, Sasluschenny kollektiw Rossii Akademitscheski simfonitscheski orkestr Santa Peterburgskoi filarmonii Russian; German Deserved collective of Russia, Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic ) is a Russian Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra is based in the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic.

The roots of the orchestra can be traced back to the year 1882. At that time, a choir was for the court of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. founded, which in 1897 converted to the " Symphonic court orchestra ". After the October Revolution in 1917, altered function and organization of the orchestra, in 1921 it was converted into the "State Petrograd Philharmonic ," 1924 " State Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic " renamed. With the return designation of Leningrad in St. Petersburg in 1991, the " Leningrad Philharmonic " were back to the " Sankt Petersburg Philharmonic ".

Chief conductor of the orchestra in recent times were Yevgeny Mravinsky (1938-1988) and Yuri Temirkanov (since 1988). From 1952 to 1984, the Latvian Arvid Jansons conducted the orchestra, from 1973 to his son Mariss Jansons. The orchestra, however, has always worked with Western-style conductor. Kurt Sanderling was 1942-1960 Deputy Mrawinskis. Otto also Klemperer, Hans Knappertsbusch, Erich Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Georg Solti and Claudio Abbado led the Orchestra.

Most symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the then Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction Mrawinskis, as many compositions Sergei Prokofiev.

Chief Conductor

  • Yuri Temirkanov (since 1988)
  • Yevgeny Mravinsky (1938-1988)
  • Fritz Stiedry (1934-1937)
  • Alexander Gauk (1930-1934)
  • Nikolai Malko (1926-1930)
  • Walerijan Berdyaev (1924-1926)
  • Emil Cooper (1920-1923)
  • Sergei Koussevitzky (1917-1920)
  • Verily Hugo (1907-1917)
  • Hermann Fly (1882-1907)
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