The Camerata Salzburg is an Austrian

chamber orchestra Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numbe ...

based in

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. The Camerata's principal concert venue is the Mozarteum University.

History

Bernhard Paumgartner Bernhard Paumgartner (born 14 November 1887 in Vienna; died 27 July 1971 in Salzburg) was an Austrian conductor, composer and musicologist. He is most famous for being Herbert von Karajan's composition teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where ...

founded the ensemble in 1952 as the ''Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg'', comprising his fellow teachers and students from the ''Mozarteum''. He served as its director and ''de facto'' principal conductor until his death in 1971. Antonio Janigro became the new leader of the Camerata in 1974, the same year when the first ''abonement'' series of concerts were performed in Salzburg.

Sándor Végh Sándor Végh (17 May 19126 January 1997) was a Hungarian, later French, violinist and conductor. He was best known as one of the great chamber music violinists of the twentieth century. Education Sándor Végh was born in 1912 in Kolozsvár, Tr ...

then served as principal conductor of the Camerata from 1978 until his death in 1997. Roger Norrington became principal conductor of the Camerata in 1997, and held the post until 2006. During his tenure, Norrington placed greater emphasis on

historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

practices.

Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos ( el, Λεωνίδας Καβάκος; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and In ...

was

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of the Camerata from 2001 through 2006, and artistic director from 2007 until his resignation in July 2009, citing "instability in the orchestra's management". In June 2011,

Louis Langrée Louis Langrée (born 11 January 1961) is a French conductor. He is the son of organist and theorist Alain Langrée. One of his sisters is an amateur cellist. Biography Early years Langrée studied at the Strasbourg Conservatory, but had no fo ...

was named the sixth principal conductor of the Camerata, effective September 2011, with an initial contract of 5 seasons. Langrée was the most recent conductor to hold the title of principal conductor of the ensemble, and stood down from the post in 2016. The musicians of the orchestra now makes artistic decisions for the ensemble without a principal conductor. The Camerata Salzburg has made commercial recordings for such labels as Decca, Warner Classics and Sony Classical.

Awards

* Europäischer Kulturpreis 1999 in the category "chamber orchestra"

Principal conductors and artistic directors

* Bernhard Paumgartner (1952–1971) * Antonio Janigro (1974–1978) * Sándor Végh (1978–1997) * Roger Norrington (1997–2006) * Leonidas Kavakos (2007–2009) * Louis Langrée (2011–2016)

References

External links

Camerata Salzburg official homepage

Camerata Salzburg German-language page on the history of the ensemble

{{Authority control Chamber orchestras Austrian orchestras Musical groups established in 1952 1952 establishments in Austria Culture in Salzburg