On Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestre_philharmonique_de_Radio_France |
Creation | 1937 |
Participants |
Eugène Bigot
- Conductor
from 1949
to 1965
Charles Bruck - Conductor from 1965 to 1970 Serge Blanc - Conductor from 1973 to 1975 Gilbert Amy - Conductor from 1976 to 1981 Hubert Soudant - Conductor from 1981 to 1983 Marek Janowski - Conductor from 1989 to 2000 Myung-whun Chung - Conductor from 2000 to 2015 Mikko Franck - Conductor from 2015 |
City | Paris, France |
Country | France |
Radiodiffusion Française established the orchestra in Paris in June 1937 under the name of the Orchestre Radio-Symphonique, under the auspices of Les Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones (PTT) and its minister, Robert Jardillier. The orchestra was initially under the direction of Rhené-Baton, who guided the orchestra until his death in 1940. Eugène Bigot subsequently directed the orchestra musicians through the 1944 Liberation. Following World War II, Henry Barraud became director of music for the ORTF, and reorganised the orchestra, appointing Bigot as its music director in 1947. The orchestra performed regularly at the Salle Érard, and later the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in the 1950s. wikipedia