The Orchestras thread

[greg]

Okay, I'll have to organize this into country, get more orchestras for some of the cities and make it neater, but here's what I got so far...
(Berlin, of course, provided by Dundonell)


Berlin

Staatskapelle: the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera  (Staatsoper Unter den Linden)

Successor to the Royal Court Opera(Hofoper) from 1918; in East Berlin until 1991.
Principal Conductors since 1945:
Joseph Keilberth:          1948-1951
Erich Kleiber:               1954-1955
Franz Konwitschny:      1955-1962
Otmar Suitner:            1964-1990
Daniel Barenboim:        1992-


Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra(Berliner Philharmoniker)

Founded 1882. Current name since 1887. Based at the Philharmonie since 1963.
Principal Conductors since 1945:
    Leo Borchard:          May-August 1945
    Sergiu Celibidache:   1945-1952
    Wilhelm Furtwangler: 1952-1954
    Herbert von Karajan: 1954-1989
    Claudio Abbado:       1989-2002
    Sir Simon Rattle:      2002-

Komische Oper

Originally founded in 1892. Has undergone several changes of name and designation and periods of closure.
Principal Conductors:
Kirill Petrenko:            2002-1008
Carl St.Clair:              2008-

Deutsches Oper

Founded 1912.
Principal Conductors since 1945:
Ferenc Fricsay:             1949-1952
Richard Kraus:               1954-1961
Heinrich Hollreiser:          1961-1964
Lorin Maazel:                 1965-1971
Jesus Lopez Cobos:        1981-1990
Giuseppe Sinopoli:            1990
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos: 1992-1997
Christian Thielmann:       1997-2004
Renato Palumbo:            2006-2008
Donald Runnicles:           2009-



Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra(Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin)

Founded 1923; based in East Berlin until 1991.
Principal Conductors since 1945:
Sergiu Celibidache:          1945-1946
Hermann Abedroth:          1953-1956
Rolf Kleinert:                   1959-1973
Heinz Rogner:                 1973-1993
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos: 1994-2000
Marek Janowski:              2002-


Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester

Founded 1946. Known as R.I.A.S.-Symphonie-Orchester, 1946-1956 and as Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra(Radio-Symphonie Orchester,

Berlin), 1956-1993: based in West Berlin.
Principal Conductors since 1946:
Ferenc Fricsay:          1948-1954
Ferenc Fricsay:          1959-1963
Lorin Maazel:             1964-1975
Riccardo Chailly:         1982-1989
Vladimir Ashkenazy:    1989-1999
Kent Nagano:            2000-2006
Ingo Metzmacher:      2007-

Konzerthausorchester, Berlin

Founded 1952. Known as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra until 2006; based in East Berlin until 1991. Based at the Konzerthaus since 1984
Principal Conductors:
Hermann Hildebrandt:    1952-1959
Kurt Sanderling:           1960-1977
Gunther Herbig:           1977-1983
Claus Peter Flor:          1984-1991
Michael Schonwandt:    1992-1998
Eliahu Inbal:                2001-2006
Lothar Zagrosek:          2006-




Vienna

Vienna Philharmonic   

Subscription Conductors

* Otto Nicolai (1842-1848)
* Karl Anton Eckert (1854-1857)
* Felix Dessoff (1860-1875)
* Hans Richter (1875-1882)
* Wilhelm Jahn (1882-1883)
* Hans Richter (1883-1898)
* Gustav Mahler (1898-1901)
* Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. (1901-1903)
* Felix Weingartner (1908-1927)
* Wilhelm Furtwangler (1927-1930)
* Clemens Krauss (1929-1933)   

Guest Conductors (since 1933)

* Bruno Walter
* Fritz Busch
* Arturo Toscanini
* Richard Strauss
* Josef Krips
* Wilhelm Furtwangler
* Hans Knappertsbusch
* Sir John Barbirolli
* Erich Kleiber
* Karl Bohm
* Herbert von Karajan
* Rafael Kubelik
* George Szell
* Carl Schuricht
* Carlos Kleiber
* Wolfgang Sawallisch
* Carlo Maria Giulini
* Sir Adrian Boult
* Leonard Bernstein
* Seiji Ozawa
* Claudio Abbado
* James Levine
* Lorin Maazel
* Simon Rattle
* Mstislav Rostropovich
* Andre Previn
* Giuseppe Sinopoli
* Vaclav Neumann
* Riccardo Muti
* Georges Pretre
* Valery Gergiev
* Nikolaus Harnoncourt
* Pierre Boulez
* John Eliot Gardiner
* Roger Norrington
* Marcello Viotti
* Christian Thielemann
* Franz Welser-Most
* Daniele Gatti
* Gilbert Kaplan
* Mariss Jansons
* Daniel Barenboim
* Simone Young
* Pierre Monteux   
* Jonathan Nott
* Daniel Harding
* Zubin Mehta
* Willi Boskovsky
* Georg Solti
* Gunter Wand
* Eugene Ormandy


Vienna Symphony
* 1900-1925 Ferdinand Lowe
* 1920s-1930s Wilhelm Furtwangler (as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
* 1933-1940s Oswald Kabasta
* 1946-1948 Hans Swarowsky
* 1948-1960 Herbert von Karajan (as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
* 1960-1970 Wolfgang Sawallisch
* 1970-1973 Josef Krips (artistic advisor)
* 1973-1976 Carlo Maria Giulini
* 1980-1982 Gennady Rozhdestvensky
* 1986-1991 Georges Pretre (principal guest conductor)
* 1991-1996 Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
* 1997-2005 Vladimir Fedoseyev
* 2005-present Fabio Luisi

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
* Milan Horvat (1969-1975)
* Leif Segerstam (1975-1982)
* Lothar Zagrosek (1982-1986)
* Pinchas Steinberg (1989-1996)
* Dennis Russell Davies (1996-2002)
* Bertrand de Billy (2002-)


Tonkunstler Orchestra
* 1933-1939 Leopold Reichwein
* 1939-1943 Bert Costa
* 1944-1945 Friedrich Jung
* 1946-1951 Kurt Woss
* 1951-1964 Gustav Koslik
* 1964-1975 Heinz Wallberg
* 1975-1978 Walter Weller
* 1978-1988 Miltiades Caridis
* 1988-1994 Isaac Karabtchevsky
* 1994-2000 Fabio Luisi
* 2000-2003 Carlos Kalmar
* 2004-present Kristjan Jarvi



Paris

Orchestre de Paris

* 1967-1968 Charles Munch
* 1969-1971 Herbert von Karajan (Musical advisor)
* 1972-1975 Sir Georg Solti
* 1975-1989 Daniel Barenboim
* 1989-1998 Semyon Bychkov
* 1998-2000 Christoph von Dohnanyi (Artistic advisor)
* 2000-present Christoph Eschenbach



Cleveland

Cleveland Orchestra

* 1918-1933 Nikolai Sokoloff
* 1933-1943 Artur Rodziński
* 1943-1944 Erich Leinsdorf
* 1946-1970 George Szell
* 1970-1972 Pierre Boulez (Musical advisor)
* 1972-1982 Lorin Maazel
* 1984-2002 Christoph von Dohnányi
* 2002-present Franz Welser-Möst


Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra
* F. Karl Grossman (1938-1963)
* George Cleve (1964-1965)
* Zoltan Rozsnyai (1965-1968)
* Jose Serebrier (1968-1971)
* Robert Marcellus (1971-1977)
* John Ross (1977-1979)
* William B. Slocum (1981-2007), Director Emeritus (2007 - )
* Victor H. Liva (2007 - )


Amsterdam

Royal Concertgebouw
* 1888-1895 Willem Kes
* 1895-1945 Willem Mengelberg
* 1945-1959 Eduard van Beinum
* 1961-1988 Bernard Haitink
* 1988-2004 Riccardo Chailly
* 2004-present Mariss Jansons



Munich

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

* Eugen Jochum (1949–1960)
* Rafael Kubelík (1961–1979)
* Sir Colin Davis (1983–1992)
* Lorin Maazel (1993–2002)
* Mariss Jansons (2003– )


Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
* 1895-1898 Frederic Archer (Lead Conductor)
* 1898-1904 Victor Herbert
* 1904-1910 Emil Paur
* 1930-1937 Antonio Modarelli
* 1937 Otto Klemperer (Guest Conductor)
* 1938-1948 Fritz Reiner
* 1948-1952 Victor de Sabata (Guest Conductor)
* 1952-1976 William Steinberg
* 1976-1984 André Previn
* 1984-1996 Lorin Maazel
* 1996-2004 Mariss Jansons
* 2005-2008 Andrew Davis (Artistic Advisor)
* 2008-present Manfred Honeck

[Dundonnell]

I am not sure how we are going to do this properly, Greg

I have just posted a horrendously massive post on 'Orchestras in Moscow'. I don't have any problem with you now or later incorporating it into a bigger thread on all(??) world orchestras but....

(a) that thread could end up just TOO big
(b) I have pointed out that the Orchestras in Moscow post is very far from being guaranteed accurate(!)
(c) the formatting we are using so far is slightly different. I have gone back pre-1945 now for the list of conductors but I also have included the dates when orchestras were founded.
(d) corrections/additions will have to be made twice

Any advice, Mods?

We could, I suppose, use this thread as a kind of 'holding thread' into which other info' could be slotted in from time to time?
Just thinking aloud and trying to be helpful

[greg]

I think the "holding thread" idea is the best thing to do. Whenever we feel like it, we could add stuff. I'll remember to add the founded whenever I get to updating it, and maybe one day we'll have enough information (hopefully accurate) to create a pinned thread with uniform formatting as well.

[Renfield]

Or have an index thread and sub-threads, like the composer forum.

[Dundonnell]

Or have an index thread and sub-threads, like the composer forum.

That sounds like a good idea to me, Eugene

Mind you....after completing the Moscow Orchestras thread I am in need of psychiatric counselling

[greg]

How should we organize it- by city or country (or both)?

[Dundonnell]

Both I would reckon...just like the Composers' Index.

So...for example-

Germany

     Berlin
     Dresden
     Leipzig
     Munich

....kind of idea

[greg]

Sounds good.

[Opus106]

Simplification is the key. Like this one.

[greg]

Simplification is the key. Like this one.

Ha... nice. I knew something like that was somewhere. Now I'm not motivated to do anything! 

[Dundonnell]

Ha... nice. I knew something like that was somewhere. Now I'm not motivated to do anything! 

Beware! The Wikipedia entries are incomplete and not always accurate Sometimes when you click on the link you are told that the page does not exist!

My research goes on Anyway...it is good fun

[greg]

March on, my friend! 

[Opus106]

Beware! The Wikipedia entries are incomplete and not always accurate Sometimes when you click on the link you are told that the page does not exist!

My research goes on Anyway...it is good fun

Perhaps, with your research, you can create pages for the orchestra without articles. I'm sure there'll be many Wikipedians eager to assist you.

[Opus106]

http://concertannals.blogspot.com/

I thought this might be of interest to you.

What is the site all about

I am researching the viability of a database of orchestral music performances for a London music college. We aim to collect data from the major orchestras in Britain and around the world so that those interested in the performance history of conductors, soloists, orchestras and composers will have a ready source to turn to. I also hope this blog might attract the attention of others around the world, who might be able to help with data and sources of information. Get in touch and let me know if you find the data useful or if you can help out with missing information

[greg]

http://concertannals.blogspot.com/

I thought this might be of interest to you.

Awesome!
Goes back to the 1860s... 

[Dana]

There's gotta be a book out there for/on people like you.