The Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (in ), founded in 1931, is one of the two
symphony orchestras belonging to the
Saint Petersburg Philharmonia
Saint Petersburg Philharmonia (), officially the Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonia Named After Dmitri Shostakovich, D. D. Shostakovich (), is a music society located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and is the name of the building where it is hou ...
society, the other being the more famous
Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (russian: Симфонический оркестр Санкт-Петербургской филармонии, ''Symphonic Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia'') is a Russian orchestra based ...
, founded in the 19th century.
The Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1931 as the Leningrad Radio Orchestra. In 1953, it came under the umbrella of Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.
Karl Eliasberg was its music director since 1942 and
Aleksandr Dmitriyev
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dmitriyev (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Дми́триев; born in Leningrad on 19 January 1935), PAU, is a Russian conductor of orchestral and choral music and opera. He has been director of the S ...
has been since 1977.
See also
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Moscow Academic Symphony Orchestra
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Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7
References
External links
Home page of Saint Petersburg Philharmonia
1931 establishments in Russia
Culture in Saint Petersburg
Musical groups established in 1931
Russian symphony orchestras
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