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Wiener Symphoniker

Wiener Symphoniker is credited on 6,051 releases across 1,160 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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In English, The Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra based in Vienna, Austria, which has been active since 1900. Has its own label,.
Wiener Concertverein Orchester is founded by Ferdinand Löwe in 1900.
February 11, 1903, at Wiener Musikverein, to perform the premiered of Symphony No. 9 by Anton Bruckner conductor Ferdinand Löwe.
1913, Based in the Vienna Konzerthaus.
1919, Merged with the Tonkünstler Orchestra.
1933, Current name adopted.
Main Conductor
Ferdinand Löwe (1900 - 1925)
Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927 - 1930 - as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
Oswald Kabasta (1934 - 1938)
Hans Swarowsky (1946 - 1948)
Herbert von Karajan (1948 - 1960 - as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
Wolfgang Sawallisch (1960 - 1970)
Josef Krips (1970 - 1973 - Artistic Advisor)
Carlo Maria Giulini (1973 - 1976)
Erich Leinsdorf (1976 - 1978)
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (1980 - 1982)
Christoph Eschenbach (1982 - 1986)
Georges Prêtre (1986 - 1991 - Principal Guest Conductor)
Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos (1991 - 1996)
Vladimir Fedoseyev (1997 - 2005)
Fabio Luisi (2005 - 2013)
Philippe Jordan (2014 - 2021)
Andrés Orozco-Estrada (2021 - 2022)
Petr Popelka (since 2024)
Possibly the same: The Vienna New Symphony, The Viennese Waltz Orchestra