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Dresdner Philharmonie
With its approximately 80 concerts in the festival hall of the Dresden Kulturpalast, the Dresdener Philharmonie essentially characterizes the cultural life of the city. The concerts of the orchestra, which emerged the central attraction for thousands of Dresdners and for the guests of the metropolis on the Elbe, so called Florence on the Elbe.
Guest conductors and soloists play together with the orchestra in its home town. For their part, the philharmonic orchestra is sought-after on the concert stages world-wide. In its 135-year history Dresdner Philarmonie gave performances in the Europe, China, Japan, Israel as well as in contries of South America and USA.
Dresdener Philharmonie traces its formation back to the formal opening of the first concert hall on Novemver 29th 1870 in Dresden. This marked a new stage, a change away from the aristocracy to the performing of concerts for general public. From 1885, the then "Gewerbehausorchester" gave philharmonic concerts in Dresden, which earned them the title "Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra" in 1915.
In the past, Brahms, Tschaikovsky, Dvorak and Strauss, amongst others, have conducted their works with the orchestra. Distingiushed persons such as Hans von Buelow, Anton Rubinstein, Bruno Walter, Fritz Busch, Arthur Nikisch, Hermann Scherchen, Erich Kleiber, Willem Mengelberg have conducted the orchestra. After 1945, conductors such as Otto Klemperer, Karl Ancerl, Vaclav Neumann, Seiji Ozawa, Klaus Tennstedt gave guest performances with the Dresdener Philharmonie, as well as soloists such as Emil Gilels, Wilhelm Kempff, Elly Ney, Gidon Kremer, Ruggiero Ricci, Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier, Mstislaw Rostropowitsch, Aurele Nicolet, Maurice Andre, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Rudolf Buchbinder, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Heinrich Schiff, Mischa Maisky, Christian Zacharias.
Previous Music Directors have included, amongst others, Paul van Kempen, Carl Schuricht, as well as Heinz Bongartz, Horst Foerster, Kurt Masur, Guenther Herbig and Herbert Kegel, and Joerg-Peter Weigle. Michel Plasson was principal conductor from 1994 to 1999. In 2001 Marek Janowski took the helm. From 2004 Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos has been Principal Conductor of the Dresdener Philharmonie.
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