The Dortmunder Philharmoniker (Dortmund Philharmonic) are a German symphony orchestra based in Dortmund. The orchestra of the

Theater Dortmund Theater Dortmund is a theatrical organization that produces operas, Musical theatre, musicals, ballets, plays, and concerts in Dortmund, Germany. It was founded as the Stadttheater Dortmund in 1904. Supported by the German Government, the organiza ...

performs opera in the Opernhaus Dortmund and concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund. The orchestra was founded in 1887 and has been shaped by conductors such as Wilhelm Schüchter,

Marek Janowski Marek Janowski (born 18 February 1939 in Warsaw) is a Polish-born German conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic. Childhood Janowski grew up in Wuppertal, near Cologne, after his mother traveled there at the st ...

Moshe Atzmon Moshe Atzmon ( he, משה עצמון, born 30 July 1931) is an Israeli conductor. He was born Móse Grószberger in Budapest, and at the age of thirteen he emigrated with his family to Tel Aviv, Israel. He started his musical career on the hor ...

and

Jac van Steen Jac van Steen (born 1956 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch conductor. He studied music theory, as well as orchestral and choral conducting, at the . In the Netherlands, van Steen was conductor and music director of the Nijmegen Bach Choir from 1986 to 1 ...

History

The ''Dortmunder Philharmoniker'' were founded as ''Orchesterverein'' in 1887. They played at different locations until the Stadttheater was opened in 1904. Since then they played also opera. The names of orchestra changed with organisational and functional changes, ''Hüttner Kapelle'', ''Städtisches Orchester'' (Orchestra of the City), ''Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Dortmund'', ''Philharmonisches Orchester Dortmund'', now ''Dortmunder Philharmoniker''. The concert venue after World War II was the Kleine Westfalenhalle. In 1966 they opened the new opera house Opernhaus Dortmund with a performance of ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...

'', conducted by Wilhelm Schüchter. Its hall was also used for symphony concerts until 2002, when the Konzerthaus Dortmund opened as the orchestra's home. As of 2010, the orchestra had grown to 102 musicians. The principal conductor has the title Generalmusikdirektor: * 1887–1919 Georg Hüttner * 1920–1951 * 1952–1962

Rolf Agop Rolf Agop (11 June 1908 – 15 October 1998) was a German Conductor (music), conductor and academic teacher of Armenian descent. Career Born in Munich where he studied, Agop worked first for the Bayerische Landesbühne, a touring theatre, and t ...

* 1963–1974 Wilhelm Schüchter * 1975–1979

* 1980–1985 Hans Wallat * 1985–1990 * 1991–1994

* 1996–2000

Anton Marik Anton Marik (born 1940) is an Austrian conductor who made a career with orchestras and choirs in Germany. Career Born in Vienna, Marik had been a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir and received his basic musical training there. After graduating f ...

* 2002–2007 * 2008–2013

* since 2013

Music

The Dortmunder Philharmiker perform regular concerts and also concerts for young listeners, (family concerts) for people from five years up, and (concerts for young people). In October 2006 they toured in China, in Shanghai and Beijing among others, conducted by Arthur Fagen. In 2010 they participated in the Festival Klangvocal with music of

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as ...

and Richard Wagner. Henze's Symphony No. 5, Wagner's ''

Wesendonck Lieder , WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, (''Five Poems for a Female Voice''). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera ''Tristan und Isolde''. The songs, ...

'' in Henze's version, and the first act of ''

Die Walküre (; ''The Valkyrie''), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on ...

'' were performed with soloists Angela Denoke and Stig Andersen, conducted by Jac van Steen. It is part of a project begun in 2009 to perform all symphonies of Henze, whose mother was born in nearby

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. The Dortmunder Philharmoniker recorded a CD in 2010, works of Antonín Dvořák, including his Symphony No. 6 and concert overtures.

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* {{Authority control, state=collapsed German symphony orchestras Musical groups established in 1887 1887 establishments in Germany Musical groups from North Rhine-Westphalia Culture in Dortmund

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