The Orquesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Orchestra) is a symphonic orchestra that is based in

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, Spain.

History

Although the orchestra originated as of 1937, during the

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, it was legally founded in 1940, by the merging of Pérez Casas' ''Filarmónica'' and the ''Orquesta Sinfónica'' of

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. The first official concert of the newly founded orchestra was in March 1941 at the

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in Madrid conducted by eminent Portuguese conductor Pedro de Freitas Branco (1896–1963). The principal conductors of these first years of the orchestra were

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, José María Franco,

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, Eduard Toldrà and

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, until the designation of the first principal conductor of the orchestra, Bartolomé Pérez Casas. After his death the new principal conductor was

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, who was in the orchestra from 1945 as the keyboard instruments player.

Principal conductors

* Bartolomé Pérez Casas (1942–1947) *

(1947–1958) *

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(1962–1978) *

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(1978–1981) *

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(1984–1989) * Aldo Ceccato (1991–1994) * Josep Pons (2003–2011) * David Afkham (2014–)

References

External links

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History

Principal conductors

See also

References

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