Concerts Column

The Orchestra Column (or Concerts Column ) is a Symphony orchestra French.

History

The orchestra is closely related to the career of its founder, the Violoniste and Leader Edouard Colonne.

Then First violin with the orchestra of the Opera of Paris, it is noticed by the editor of music Georges Hartmann, which engages it at once with the head in the “National Concert” that it founds in March 1873 with the Théâtre of Odéon with like objective assigned to make known with many people the contemporary French type-setters.

The first season gains a triumphal success and marks the revival, in France, of the symphonic Musique. But in spite of this undeniable success near the public, the catastrophic financial results oblige Hartmann to give up.

Extremely of his personal success, Edouard Colonne creates his own orchestra, the artistic Association in the Concerts Column which, as of November 1873, settles with the Théâtre of Châtelet. The Concerts Column then serve with passion the modern music of the time: they impose many French musicians (Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Charpentier, Fauré, of Indy, Debussy, Ravel, Widor, Dukas, Chabrier), integrate in their repertory Wagner and Richard Strauss, redécouvrent the works forgotten like the Damnation of Faust , that Hector Berlioz had created in 1846 with the Op3era Comique.

The orchestra invites the largest soloists of the time (Sarasate, Pugno, Ysaÿe…), and is one of the first to call upon foreign chiefs, such as Mottl or Weingartner. Mahler, Tchaïkovsky, Debussy, Grieg, Richard Strauss and Prokofiev comes to direct their works there. The Orchestra Column can thus be enorgueillir to have accommodated, since its beginnings, the largest leaders. More recently, it was directed by Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russel Davis, Michel Corboz, Kent Nagano, Mauricio Kagel, Lovro von Matačić, Armin Jordan, Günter Neuhold, Edmon Colomer, Antonello Allemandi, Stephan Denève.

In 1910, Gabriel Pierné succeeds Edouard Colonne. It is followed of Paul Paray (1932), Charles Münch (1956), Pierre Dervaux (1958), all presidents - leaders, ensuring at the same time the musical direction and the administrative responsibility. Marcel Landowski, then Armin Jordan will chair then the destinies of the artistic Association in the Concerts Column, without however ensuring the musical direction of it.

The current musical director is Laurent Petitgirard elected initially in December 2004 then, “only French chief musical director of a Parisian orchestra”, re-elected for three more years in October 2007.

Musical director

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