Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia

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The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (

Barcelona, Spain. Since April 1999, the Orchestra has had its headquarters at L'Auditori. Prior to that, from its foundation to 1998, the orchestra was resident at the Palau de la Música Catalana
.

History

In addition to the

Pau Casals, and linked to the Associació Obrera de Concerts (Workers' Society for Concerts). After the Spanish Civil War
(1936–1939), both the orchestra and society were banned and Casals went into exile in France.

In 1944, a new Barcelona civic orchestra – the current

Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona – was founded with the name of Barcelona Municipal Orchestra, created by the City Council (Ajuntament de Barcelona) and promoted by the Catalan conductor and composer Eduard Toldrà
. Toldrà, through his leadership, helped to consolidate the orchestra's presence very early in the cultural life of the city. Barcelona has since had a regular cycle of symphonic concerts with the collaboration of the main national and foreign performers and with the aim to make classical music reach the greater public and especially to spread the work of Catalan composers.

After Toldrà's death in 1962, Rafael Ferrer became the head of the orchestra until 1967, when

Government of Catalonia
and Barcelona City Council was constituted.

In September 2015, Kazushi Ōno became principal conductor of the OBC, with an initial contract of three years.[1] Ōno is scheduled to conclude his tenure as OBC principal conductor at the close of the 2021-2022 season. In November 2021, the OBC announced the appointment of Ludovic Morlot as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of four seasons.[2]

The OBC has made recordings for such labels as

Naxos Records
.

Music directors / principal conductors

Premières performed

As the city's main orchestra, the OBC has performed many world

premières
of musical compositions, including the following:

  • 1948 Xavier Montsalvatge's Simfonia mediterrània (Mediterranean Symphony).
  • 1952 Jaume Pahissa's El camí (The way).
  • 1960 Xavier Montsalvatge's Càntic espiritual.
  • 1961
    Frederic Mompou
    's Variacions sobre un tema de Chopin for orchestra.
  • 1963 Xavier Montsalvatge's Desintegració morfològica de la xacona de J. S. Bach (Morphological disintegration of J.S. Bach's chaconne), and other of the composer's works.
  • 1964 Joaquim Homs' Invention for orchestra; other Homs works have had their premieres by OBC: Presències (1967), Brief symphony (1972), Nonet (1979)...
  • 1974
    Josep Soler
    's opera-oratorio Oedipus et Iocasta (many Soler works have been first performed by the OBC).
  • 1997 Salvador Brotons' oratorio Stabat Mater

References

  1. ^ "Kazushi Ono nomenat director titular de l'Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona a partir de setembre 2015" (Press release). L'Auditori. January 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
  2. ^ "Ludovic Morlot, appointed new Principal Conductor of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia" (Press release). Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-15.

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