| On Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozarteum_Orchestra_Salzburg |
| Alternative Spellings | Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra |
| Creation | 1841 |
| Participants |
Ivor Bolton
- Conductor
from 2004
to 2014
Paul Graener - Conductor from 1911 to 1913 Ernst Märzendorfer - Conductor from 1953 to 1958 Leopold Hager - Conductor from 1969 to 1981 Hans Graf - Conductor from 1984 to 1994 Alois Taux - Conductor from 1841 to 1861 Hans Schläger - Conductor from 1861 to 1868 Otto Bach - Conductor from 1868 to 1879 Joseph Friedrich Hummel - Conductor from 1880 to 1908 Joseph Reiter - Conductor from 1908 to 1911 Franz Ledwinka - Conductor from 1913 to 1917 Bernhard Paumgartner - Conductor from 1917 to 1938 Willem van Hoogstraten - Conductor from 1939 to 1944 Robert Wagner - Conductor from 1946 Meinhard von Zallinger - Conductor from 1947 to 1949 Paul Walter - Conductor from 1949 to 1953 Meinhard von Zallinger - Conductor from 1959 Mladen Bašić - Conductor from 1960 to 1969 Ralf Weikert - Conductor from 1981 to 1984 Hubert Soudant - Conductor from 1994 to 2004 Riccardo Minasi - Conductor from 2017 |
| City | Salzburg, Austria |
| Country | Austria |
The Mozarteum Orchestra was founded in 1841 with the help of Mozart’s sons Franz Xaver and Karl Thomas as well as his widow Constanze. In 1908, the ensemble officially adopted the name ″Mozarteum Orchestra″. The Orchestra is one of Austria's leading symphony orchestras and participates regularly at the Salzburg Festival.
The Mozarteum Orchestra has also been heard in major opera productions: at the Salzburg Festival, Ivor Bolton conducted Haydn’s Armida in 2009 and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta in 2011 with Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala, as well as Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol. For the Salzburg State Theater, the orchestra also performs musical theater works.
The orchestra has 91 regular members and has been conducted by international guest conductors including Giovanni Antonini, Robin Ticciati, Marc Minkowski, Mark Elder, Frans Brüggen, Andris Nelsons, Mark Wigglesworth and Thomas Dausgaard.
On its international tours, the Mozarteum Orchestra represents the City and the State of Salzburg and acts as a musical ambassador. The 2011-2012 season led the orchestra to Japan, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cologne, Frankfurt and Baden-Baden. The fall of 2012 saw a major tour through China and a guest appearance in Berlin. At the Easter weekend 2013 the orchestra moreover performed in Cuenca at the 52. Semana de Música Religiose de Cuenca.
The Mozarteum Orchestra’s work is documented widely on CD and DVD. The CDs released by the label Oehms Classics include numerous works by Mozart, Haydn’s oratorios The Seasons and The Creation, Berlioz’ L’Enfance du Christ as well as an ongoing cycle of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies. Besides in mid-July 2013 a CD-recording of the Label Sony Classical with works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was published. The Mozarteum Orchestra performed in conjunction with the harpist Xavier de Maistre and flautist Magali Mosnier. Its DVDs include Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Rolando Villazon and Zarzuelas with Plácido Domingo.
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