Founded 1871 Active from 1871 Established 1871 | Website www.zgf.hr Genre Classical | |
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Awards Porin Award for Best Classical Music Album, Porin Award for Best Classical Music Performance Record labels Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Music LLC Nominations Porin Award for Best Archival/Historical Album, Porin Award for Best Foreign Classical Music Album Similar Boris Papandopulo, Pavle Dešpalj, Lovro von Matačić, Ivan Repusic, Milan Horvat | ||
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Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (Croatian: Zagrebačka filharmonija, ZGF) is an orchestra based in Zagreb, Croatia.
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History
In 1871, the orchestra was founded in Zagreb. In 1920, it was renamed to today's name.
Its history has been shaped by first-class principal conductors such as Friedrich Zaun, Milan Horvat, Lovro von Matačić, Mladen Bašić, Pavle Dešpalj, Kazushi Ono, Pavel Kogan, Alexander Rahbari and Vjekoslav Šutej.
Many distinguished conductors and composers including Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Paul Kletzki, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Kiril Kondrashin, Kurt Sanderling, Carlo Zecchi, Jean Martinon, Milan Sachs, Krešimir Baranović, Boris Papandopulo, Stjepan Šulek, Milko Kelemen, Igor Stravinski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ennio Morricone, and others have performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic.
Among the Philharmonic’s more recent guest conductors are Dmitri Kitajenko, Lorin Maazel, Leopold Hager, Valery Gergiev, Marko Letonja, Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos, Hans Graf, Sir Neville Marriner, Berislav Klobučar, Jesús López-Cobos, Antoni Witt, Peter Maxwell Davies and others.
The Zagreb Philharmonic has performed in almost all European countries, in Russia, the United States of America, Mexico and Japan. It has regularly participated at Dubrovnik Summer Festival and Music Biennale Zagreb.