The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra (in German: Duisburger Philharmoniker) is a German
orchestra
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, c ...
based in
Duisburg
Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ...
. The orchestra was founded in 1877.
Conductors include:
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Walter Josephson (1899 to 1920)
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Paul Scheinpflug (1920 to 1928)
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Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum (; 1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, and Johannes Brahms, among others.
Biography
Jochum was born to a Roman Catholic family in ...
(1930 to 1933)
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Otto Volkmann (1933 to 1944).
After World War II
Georg Ludwig Jochum Georg Ludwig Jochum (sometimes hyphenated as Georg-Ludwig Jochum) (10 December 1909 – 1 November 1970) was a German conducting, conductor and younger brother of better-known conductor Eugen Jochum.
He was born in Babenhausen, Bavaria, Babenhause ...
had the care of rebuilding the orchestra, followed by
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Walter Weller
Walter Weller (30 November 1939 – 14 June 2015) was an Austrian-born conductor and classical violinist. He made several recordings over the years, founded his own string quartet. and led/co-led several well known orchestras and operas. Welle ...
(1971)
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Miltiades Caridis
Miltiades Caridis ( el, Μιλτιάδης Καρύδης; 9 May 1923 – 1 March 1998) was a German-Greek conductor.
Biography
Caridis was born in the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk). His mother was a Danziger of German ethnicity, his father w ...
(1975 to 1981)
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Lawrence Foster
Lawrence Foster (born October 23, 1941) is an American conductor of Romanian ancestry. He is currently the artistic director and chief conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the music director of the Marseille Opera and th ...
(1982 to 1987)
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Alexander Lazarev (1988 to 1993)
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Bruno Weil
Bruno Weil (born 24 November 1949, in Hahnstätten) is a German symphonic conductor. He is principal guest conductor of Tafelmusik, the period-instrument group based in Toronto, Music Director of the Carmel Bach Festival in California, and artist ...
(1994 to 2002)
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Jonathan Darlington (2002 to 2011)
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Giordano Bellincampi (2012 to 2017)
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Axel Kober (2019 to present).
The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the accompanying orchestra of the Duisburg
Opera "
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera on the Rhine) is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its Music Director since 2009. The resident orchestra, t ...
".
External links
Official site
References
Musical groups established in 1877
Culture in Duisburg
German symphony orchestras
1877 establishments in Germany
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