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Vienna philharmonic8/4/2023 ![]() However, the society disbanded after only four concerts due to organizational shortcomings. From these experiments to the court opera orchestra’s first entrepreneurial activities was only a small step, and in 1833 Lachner founded the Künstler-Verein for this purpose. The Bavarian composer and conductor Franz Lachner, conductor at the court opera theater from 1830, played symphonies by Beethoven in the intervals of ballet performances. Despite these promising beginnings, however, the largest and finest ensemble in Vienna only managed to become an organizer of classical symphonic concerts in a very roundabout way. On 24-05-1824 the orchestra of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music) and the court orchestra joined forces with the court opera orchestra for the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Ludwig van Beethoven also engaged this ensemble on 02-04-1800 for a concert in which he premiered his first symphony. The logical step of playing a concert with one of these orchestras was taken at the end of the 18th century, when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart engaged the orchestra of the Vienna Court Theater for a cycle of six concerts in 1785. ![]() Orchestras composed entirely of professional musicians were found only in the theaters. Concerts of symphonic works were played by ensembles specially assembled for the occasion. Until the first Philharmonic concert on March 28, 1842, the city which gave its name to the Viennese classics – Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – had no professional concert orchestra. ![]() Performances conducted by Gustav Mahler with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) (See: 0000 Concert Vienna).
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