The Niedersächsische Symphonie-Orchester (original name:Niedersachsenorchester, later: Niedersächsisches Symphonie-Orchester) from

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

(NSO) was founded in 1934.

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until 1938 was

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History

At the beginning of the 1938/39 concert season, took over (1897–1966) and was the director of the orchestra – responsible for local and national concerts and festival performances. The first crisis in the orchestra's existence occurred in 1950, when the then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg in Hanover – today's

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in Hanover – and the majority of the NSO's musicians switched over to

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. This led to the refoundation of the orchestra under new sponsorship, consisting of the city of Hanover and the state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. From then on, the new NSO took a steep ascent and was also used for Radio Bremen. In addition to Thierfelder, Rainer Koch was appointed second conductor from 1961–1965.opern-freund.de
/ref> In 1964, Thierfelder resigned from his post as principal conductor and Rudolf Alberth – coming from Munich – took over the position of principal conductor.

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succeeded Koch as second conductor in 1965. As guest conductors,

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and Franz-Paul Decker were engaged for a series of concerts. In 1968, due to lack of funds, the NSO could not continue to be sponsored by the state of Lower Saxony, and the orchestra was therefore dissolved at the end of the 1967/68 season.

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