Saxonian state State of Dresden

the Saxonian state State of Dresden is one of the oldest and most steeped in tradition orchestras of the world.


Principal conductor: Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Haitink

honour conductor: Sir Colin Davis

history

the Saxonian state State of Dresden became to 22. September 1548 by cure prince Moritz of Saxonia based. It is probably thereby the only orchestra of Germany, which makes music away continuously over more than four and one-half centuries and at the same time - how contemporary reports occupy heard - always to the prominent ochestras of the different epochs. It is probably the oldest and constantly making music orchestra of the world. Outstanding Kapellmeister and internationally estimated instrument valleyists coined/shaped the former since their establishment yard and today's Saxonian state chapel. At the Saxonian yard was the Hofkapellmeister among other things Johann walter, Heinrich contactor and Johann Adolf hate. The public concert activity of the orchestra began 18 toward end. Century; Subscription concerts were introduced 1858.

In 19. Century directed Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner and Ernst von Schuch the state chapel. From that 20. Century are Fritz pure, Fritz shrubs, Karl Böhm, Joseph Keilberth, Rudolf Kempe, Franz Konwitschny, Otmar Suitner, briefly Sanderling and harsh ore Blomstedt mentioned.

presence

from 1992 to its sudden death to 20. April 2001 stood for Giuseppe Sinopoli at the point of the orchestra. 2002 took over Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Haitink the position of the principal conductor. Honour conductor is since 1991 Sir Colin Davis. Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations bunch was connected for the ochestra, whose international reputation continues as „a bunch orchestra “until today, by 60 years as composer , conductor and a friend; nine of its operas in Dresden uraufgeführt (under it Salome, Elektra and the Rosenkavalier), alpineinfo. never dedicated it the Dresden chapel.

The list of the works dedicated by the orchestra uraufgeführten or it is long: It is enough from Vivaldi over Wagner, Schumann, Liszt, bunch, Hindemith, Weill, Blacher among other things up to newer compositions of Carpenter, Matthus, Rihm, Kantscheli and Ruzicka. Many prominent guests made music with the orchestra.

Since the first third 17. Century opera orchestra, cares for the Saxonian state State of - after 1985 again in the Semperoper - a widespread repertoire between baroque one and directly contemporary one. Per season it gives today 12 to 15 Sinfonie and special concerts and plays with all opera productions in the Semperoper, thus almost daily.

To the guest conductors 2002/03/04 belongs among other things Georges Prêtre, Christian Thielemann, Sir John Eliot servant, Daniele Gatti, Myung Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Charles Dutoit, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Harding and Sylvain Cambreling.

The orchestra members in „the chamber music of the Saxonian state chapel dedicate themselves to a continuous chamber music care with singular idealistic objective “, which decreases/goes back on the 1854 created „clay/tone artist association “.

Members of the Saxonian state chapel were and again and again also as virtuose soloists stepped out, for instance the seamists Anton Bernhard Fürstenau, Moritz Fürstenau, John Amans, kind of hitting a corner head, the bugler Peter Damm and the Cellisten Peter Bruns and Jan Vogler.

The Diskographie of the orchestra proves a multiplicity of photographs of the sinfonischen and the opera repertoire with renowned conductors since beginning of the 1920er years. In the Studio of the Lukaskirche in Dresden numerous photographs for the GDR label Eterna developed, also today the church for photographs of the state chapel are used.

An extensive tour activity leads the Saxonian state chapel regularly into the music centers of Europe, North America and the Far East. Thus the orchestra gastiert in the years 2004 and 2005 in different German cities, in Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Great Britain, Spain, in the USA, Greece, Hungary and France as well as with the festivals in Luzern, Edinburgh, London PROM, Salzburg, Prague, Bucharest and on the Kanari islands.

Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Haitink, which had taken over the position of the principal conductor inter+CIM-moderately after Giuseppe Sinopolis death, left prematurely in the year 2004 the orchestra. With the new election to the principal conductor 2004 it came to discrepancies with the choice and by it to the break with Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Haitink. Its last concert as a boss it gave in November 2004 in the framework to a tour in Vienna. In the year 2007 Fabio Luisi, the present boss of the MDR transfers - Sinfonieorchesters, the position of the principal conductor.

 

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