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    Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
    Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

    One of the oldest symphony orchestras in the world, named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany. Its origins can be traced to 1743, when a society called the Grosses Concert began performing in private homes and then in a tavern called "The Three Swans". The orchestra gave its first concert in the Gewandhaus in 1781.

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    Music directors (Gewandhauskapellmeister):
    1781–1785 Johann Adam Hiller
    1785–1810 Johann Gottfried Schicht
    1810–1827 Johann Philipp Christian Schulze
    1827–1835 Christian August Pohlenz
    1835–1843 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
    1843–1844 Ferdinand Hiller
    1845–1847 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
    1848–1854 Julius Rietz
    1860–1895 Carl Reinecke
    1895–1922 Arthur Nikisch
    1922–1928 Wilhelm Furtwängler
    1929–1933 Bruno Walter
    1934–1945 Hermann Abendroth
    1946–1949 Herbert Albert
    1949–1962 Franz Konwitschny
    1964–1968 Václav Neumann
    1970–1996 Kurt Masur
    1998–2005 Herbert Blomstedt
    2005–2016 Riccardo Chailly
    2018-present Andris Nelsons

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