Essential Desk Reference:
Music: 45 Major Orchestras |
|
Orchestra |
Year Established |
|---|---|
|
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (London) |
1958 |
|
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra |
1947 |
|
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
1916 |
|
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra |
1946 |
|
Basle Chamber Orchestra |
1926 |
|
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra |
1960 |
|
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
1882 |
|
Boston Symphony Orchestra |
1881 |
|
Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
1890 |
|
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra |
1895 |
|
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
1920 |
|
Cleveland Orchestra |
1918 |
|
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra |
1896 |
|
Dallas Symphony Orchestra |
1900 |
|
Detroit Symphony Orchestra |
1900 |
|
Dresden Sächsische Staatskapelle |
1548 |
|
English Chamber Orchestra |
1948 |
|
English National Opera Orchestra |
1931 |
|
Houston Symphony Orchestra |
1913 |
|
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra |
1936 |
|
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra |
1781 |
|
London Philharmonic Orchestra |
1932 |
|
London Symphony Orchestra |
1904 |
|
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra |
1919 |
|
Mariinsky Theater (Kirov) Orchestra |
1860 |
|
Metropolitan Operas Orchestra |
1883 |
|
Minnesota Orchestra |
1903 |
|
National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) |
1931 |
|
New York Philharmonic |
1842 |
|
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
1918 |
|
Orchestre de Paris |
1967 |
|
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal |
1934 |
|
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
1972 |
|
Philadelphia Orchestra |
1900 |
|
Prague Symphony Orchestra |
1934 |
|
RAI National Symphony Orchestra |
1994 |
|
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra |
1888 |
|
Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra |
1945 |
|
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
1946 |
|
Royal Scottish National Orchestra |
1894 |
|
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra |
1880 |
|
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra |
1911 |
|
Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra |
1944 |
|
Vienna Philharmonic |
1842 |
|
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra |
1946 |
Cummings, David, ed. Random House Encyclopedic Dictionary of Classical Music. New York: Random House, 1997.
“Orchestral News,” ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/John_Woolard Sadie, Stanley, ed. The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music. New York: Norton, 1994.
