The Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (in ), founded in 1931, is one of the two
symphony orchestras
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...
belonging to the
Saint Petersburg Philharmonia society, the other being the more famous
Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, 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
Karl Ilitch Eliasberg ( be, Карл Ілліч Эліасберг; russian: Карл Ильич Элиасберг) (10 June 1907, in Minsk – 12 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Soviet conductor.
Eliasberg graduated from the Leningrad Conserv ...
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
The Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 took place on 9 August 1942 during the Second World War, while the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) was under siege by Nazi German forces.
Dmitri Shostakovich had intended the pi ...
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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