Conductors of Major American Orchestras

 

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (founded 1945)

Henry Sopkin (1945-1966)

Robert Shaw (1967-88)

Yoel Levi (1988-2000)

Robert Spano (2001-present)

 

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (founded 1916)

GUSTAV STRUBE (1917-1930)

GEORGE SIEMONN (1930 – 1935)

ERNEST SCHELLING (1935-1937)

WERNER JANSSEN (1937–1939)

HOWARD BARLOW (1939-1942)

REGINALD STEWART (1942-1952)

MASSIMO FRECCIA (1952-1959)

PETER HERMAN ADLER (1959-1968)

SERGIU COMISSIONA (1968-1984)

DAVID ZINMAN (1985-1998)

YURI TEMIRKANOV (1999-present)

 

Boston Symphony Orchestra (fouded 1881)

Sir George Henschel (1881-84)

Wilhelm Gericke (1884-89)

Artur Nikisch (1889-93)

Emil Paur (1893-98)

Wilhelm Gericke (1898-1906)

Karl Muck (1906-08)

Max Fiedler (1908-12)

Karl Muck (1912-18)

Henri Rabaud (1918-19)

Pierre Monteux (1919-24)

Serge Koussevitzky (1924-49)

Charles Munch (1949-62)

Erich Leinsdorf (1962-69)

William Steinberg (1969-72)

Seiji Ozawa (1973-present)

James Levine (beginning 2002)

 

Buffalo Philharmonic (founded 1936)

Franco Autori (1936-45)

William Steinberg (1945-63)

Josef Krips (1953-63)

Lukas Foss (1963-70)

Michael Tilson Thomas (1971-78)

Julius Rudel (1979-84)

Semyon Bychkov (1984-89)

Maximiano Valdes (1989-98)

JoAnn Falletta (1998-present)

 

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (founded 1891)

Theodore Thomas (1891-1905)

 Frederick Stock (1905-1942)

 Désiré Defauw (1943-1947)

 Artur Rodzinski (1947-1948)

 Rafael Kubelík (1950-1953)

 Fritz Reiner (1953-1962), Musical Advisor 1962-1963

 Jean Martinon (1963-1968)

 Irwin Hoffman (1968-1969, Acting)

 Sir Georg Solti (1969-1991, Music Director Laureate  1991-1997)

 Daniel Barenboim (1991-present)

 

Cincinatti Symphony (founded 1895)

Frank Van der Stucken (1895-1907)

Leopold Stokowski (1909-12)

Ernst Kunwald (1912-18)

Eugène Ysaÿe (1918-22)

Fritz Reiner (1922-31)

Eugene Goossens (1931-47)

Thor Johnson (1947-58)

Max Rudolf (1958-70)

Thomas Schippers (1970-77)

Walter Susskind (1978-80)

Michael Gielen (1980-86)

Jesus Lopez-Cobos (1986-2001)

Paavo Jarvi (beginning 2001-present)

 

Cleveland Orchestra (founded 1918)

Nikolai Sokoloff (1918-33)

Artur Rodzinski (1933-43)

Erich Leinsdorf (1943-46)

Georg Szell (1946-70)

Lorin Maazel (1972-80)

Christoph von Dohnányi (1981-present)

Franz Welser-Most (beginning 2002)

 

Dallas Symphony Orchestra (founded 1900)

Hans Kreissig (1900-05)

Walter J. Fried, Carl Venth, Paul Van Katwijk and Jacques Singer

Antal Dorati (1945-49 )

Walter Hendl (1949-58)

Paul Kletzki (1958-61)

Donald Johanos, Anshel Brusilow, Max Rudolf and Louis Lane

Eduardo Mata (1977-93)

Andrew Litton (1994-present)

 

Detroit Symphony Orchestra (founded 1914) 

Weston Gales (1914-17)

Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1918-36)

Franco Ghione (1936-40)

Victor Kolar (1940-42)

Karl Krueger (1944-49). (Orch. disbanded 1949-51)

Paul Paray (1951-62)

Sixten Ehrling (1963-73)

Aldo Ceccato (1973-77)

Antal Dorati (1977-81)

Gunther Herbig (1984-90)

Neeme Jarvi (1990-present)

 

Houston Symphony Orchestra (founded 1913)

Julian Paul Blitz (1913-16)

Paul Berge (1916-17). Orch. reorganized 1930.

Frank St Leger (1931-35)

Ernst Hoffman (1936-47)

Efrem Kurtz (1948-54)

Ferenc Fricsay (1954)

Leopold Stokowski (1955-61)

Sir John Barbirolli (1961-67)

Andre Previn (1967-69)

Lawrence Foster (1971-78)

Sergiu Comissiona (1979-88)

Christoph Eschenbach (1988-99, Conductor Laureate)

Hans Graf (2002-present)

Los Angeles Philharmonic (founded 1919)

Walter Henry Rothwell (1919-27)

Georg Schnéevoigt  (1927 -1929)

Artur Rodzinski  (1929 -1933)

Otto Klemperer  (1933 -1939)

Alfred Wallenstein  (1943 -1956)

Eduard van Beinum  (1956 -1959)

Zubin Mehta  (1962 -1978)

Carlo Maria Giulini  (1978 -1984)

André Previn  (1985 -1989)

Esa-Pekka Salonen  (1992 -present)

 

Minnesota Orchestra (founded 1903. Minneapolis Sym. Until 1968)

Emil Oberhoffer (1903-1922)

Henri Verbrugghen (1923-1931)

Eugene Ormandy (1931-1936)

Dimitri Mitropoulos (1937-1949)

Antal Dorati (1949-1960)

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1960-1979)

Sir Neville Marriner (1979-1986)

Edo de Waart (1986-1995)

Eiji Oue (1995-present)

 

National Symphony Orchestra (founded 1931)

Hans Kindler (1931-49)

Howard Mitchell (1950-69)

Antal Dorati (1970-76)

Mstislav Rostropovich (1977-94)

Leonard Slatkin (1996-present)

 

New York Philharmonic (founded 1842)

Ureli Corelli Hill (1842-1847)

Theodore Eisfeld (1848-1865)

Carl Bergmann (1855-1876)

Leopold Damrosch (1876-1877)

Theodore Thomas (1877-1891)

Anton Seidl (1891-1898)

Emil Paur (1898-1902)

Walter Damrosch (1902-1903)

Wassily Safonoff (1906-1909)

Gustav Mahler (1909-1911)

Josef Stransky (1911-1923)

Willem Mengelberg (1922-1930)

Arturo Toscanini (1928-1936)

John Barbirolli (1936-1941)

Artur Rodzinski (1943-1947)

Bruno Walter (1947-1949)

Leopold Stokowski (1949-1950)

Dimitri Mitropoulos (1949-1958)

Leonard Bernstein (1958-1969)

George Szell (1969-1970)

Pierre Boulez (1971-1977)

Zubin Mehta (1978-1991)

Kurt Masur (1991-present)

Lorin Maazel (beginning 2002)

 

Philadelphia Orchestra (founded 1900)

Fritz Scheel (1900-07)

Carl Pohlig (1907-12)

Leopold Stokowski, (1912-38)

Eugene Ormandy (1936-1980)

Riccardo Muti (1980-1992)

Wolfgang Sawallisch (1993-present)

Christoph Eschenbach (beginning 2002)

 

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (founded 1895)

Frederic Asker (1895-98)

Victor Herbert (1898-1904)

Emil Paur (1904-10). Disbanded 1910, reorganized 1926

Antonio Modarelli (1930-37)

Otto Klemperer (1937)

Fritz Reiner (1938-48)

William Steinberg (1952-76)

Andre Previn (1976-1984)

Lorin Maazel (1984-96)

Mariss Jansons (1996-present)

 

Rochester Philharmonic (founded 1922)

Eugene Goossens (1923-31)

Coates

Jose Iturbi (1935-44)

Erich Leinsdorf (1947-56)

Theodore Bloomfield (1959-63)

Laszlo Somogyi

David Zinman (1977-85)

Jerzy Semkow (1985-89)

Christopher Seaman (1998 -present)

 

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (founded 1880)

Joseph Otten (1880 – 1894)

Alfred Ernst (1894 – 1907)

Max Zach (1907 – 1921)

Rudolph Ganz (1921 – 1927)

Vladimir Golschmann (1931 – 1958)

Edouard van Remoortel (1958 – 1962)

Elazar de Carvalho (1963 – 1968)

Walter Susskind (1968 – 1975)

Jerzy Semkow (1975 – 1979)

Leonard Slatkin, (1979 – 1995)

Hans Vonk (1996 –present)

 

San Francisco Symphony (founded 1911)

Henry Hadley (1911-15)

Alfred Hertz (1915-29)

Basil Cameron and Issay Dobrowen (1929-31)

Pierre Monteux (1935-52)

Enrique Jorda (1954-63)

Josef Krips (1963-70)

Seiji Ozawa (1970-76)

Herbert Blomstedt (1985-95, Conductor Laureate)

Michael Tilson Thomas (1995-present)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

London SO PRINCIPAL CONDUCTORS
Hans Richter (1904-11)
Sir Edward Elgar (1911-12)
Artur Nikish (1921-14)
Sir Thomas Beecham (1915-17)
Albert Coates (1919-22)
Willem Mengelberg (1930-31)
Sir Hamilton Harty (1932-35)
Josef Krips (1951-54)
Pierre Monteux (1960-64)
Istvan Kertesz (1965-68)
André Previn (1968-79)
Claudio Abbado (1979-87)
Michael Tilson Thomas (1987-95)
Sir Colin Davis (1995-present)

 

 

 

 

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