The Akademische Orchestervereinigung Göttingen (AOV, Academic orchestral society) is a symphony

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Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

, Germany. It was founded in 1906 by academics of the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. Starting in 1950, Hermann Fuchs was the AOV's musical director for 37 years. Thomas-Michael Gribow was its conductor from 1991 to 2003; Lorenz Nordmeyer was appointed for this position in 2004. The orchestra gained national recognition when it was instrumental in Oskar Hagen's initiative of rediscovering the operas of George Frideric Handel after World War I; this eventually lead to the

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. During that festival in 1935, the orchestra performed the first modern-day production of Handel's ''

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'' conducted by

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. Two years earlier, it recorded Kurt Weill's '' Der Flug der Lindberghs'' under Hermann Fuchs.Schedule 7 April 1997
,

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Radio In 2000, it performed the world premiere of the "Overture to ''The Bad Room''" by American composer Justin Laird Weaver. The members of the orchestra form three chamber groups: the AOV Brass Quintet, the Foehrenberg-Quartett, and the Maggiore Quartett.

Literature

*''75 Jahre Akademische Orchestervereinigung Göttingen: 1906–1981'', Board of Akademische Orchestervereinigung Göttingen, 1981

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