But failing to win support from the Philharmonic's public, he left to create the rival Symphony Society of New York in 1878. Leopold Damrosch, Franz Liszt's former concertmaster at Weimar, served as conductor of the Philharmonic for the 1876/77 season. The New York Philharmonic Club, a chamber ensemble of Philharmonic musicians, clowning for their public-relations photograph in the 1880s. That year Eisfeld returned to Europe, and Bergmann continued to conduct the Society until his death in 1876. That year, Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln, but in a peculiar turn of events which were criticized in the New York press, the Philharmonic omitted the last movement, " Ode to Joy", as being inappropriate for the occasion. Eisfeld, later along with Carl Bergmann, would be the conductor until 1865. This changed in 1849 when Theodore Eisfeld was installed as sole conductor for the season. In addition to Hill, Timm and Étienne, these were William Alpers, George Loder, Louis Wiegers and Alfred Boucher. Although judged by some as an odd work with all those singers kept at bay until the end, the Ninth soon became the work performed most often when a grand gesture was required.ĭuring the Philharmonic's first seven seasons, seven musicians alternated the conducting duties. However, with the expensive US$2.00 ticket price and a war rally uptown, the hoped-for audience was kept away and the new hall would have to wait. The chorals were translated into what would be the first English performance anywhere in the world. About 400 instrumental and vocal performers gathered for this premiere, which was conducted by George Loder. 9, to take place at Castle Garden on the southern tip of Manhattan. The centerpiece was the American premiere of Beethoven's Symphony No. At the end of the season, the players would divide any proceeds among themselves.īeethoven's Ninth and a new home, 1846 Īpollo Rooms, from NYC Philharmonic ArchivesĪfter only a dozen public performances and barely four years old, the Philharmonic organized a concert to raise funds to build a new music hall. The musicians operated as a cooperative society, deciding by a majority vote such issues as who would become a member, which music would be performed and who among them would conduct. Two other conductors, German-born Henry Christian Timm and French-born Denis Etienne, led parts of the eclectic, three-hour program, which included chamber music and several operatic selections with a leading singer of the day, as was the custom. The concert opened with Beethoven's Symphony No. It was the third Philharmonic on American soil since 1799, and had as its intended purpose, "the advancement of instrumental music." The first concert of the Philharmonic Society took place on Decemin the Apollo Rooms on lower Broadway before an audience of 600.
The orchestra was then called the Philharmonic Society of New York. The New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842 by the American conductor Ureli Corelli Hill, with the aid of the Irish composer William Vincent Wallace.
Ureli Corelli Hill, founding father and first conductor of the New York Philharmonic
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