Philharmonia Orchestra
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The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gülsin Onay, 2011
Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Philharmonia's first concert in 1945 (image from 1948)
Herbert von Karajan (1938 photograph)
Otto Klemperer, first principal conductor of the Philharmonia
Otto Klemperer
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Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German composer and conductor, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but h
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…the finest of London's five symphony orchestras in its first two decades. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s the orchestra's chief conductor was Otto Klemperer, with whom the orchestra gave many concerts and made numerous recordings of the core orchestral repertoire. During Klemperer's tenure Legge, citing the…
Klemperer c. 1920
Kroll Opera House, 1930
Arnold Schoenberg gave Klemperer composition lessons.
The Hungarian State Opera, where Klemperer was musical director, 1947–1950