42-765: Christian Stadelmann (1959 – 26 July 2019) was a German violinist. For many years he was leader of the second violin section of the Berlin Philharmonic . Stadelmann was born in Berlin; he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Thomas Brandis , afterwards becoming a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie . In 1985 he joined the Berlin Philharmonic as a second violinist, and two years later he became section leader. With orchestra colleagues he founded
84-688: A machine gun detachment. In 1925, he married bank employee Natalya Porosinyuk, with whom he had two daughters, Larissa and Irina. He graduated from machine gun courses at the Vystrel courses for command personnel in 1925 and became a member of the Communist Party in 1926. After graduating from the Command Courses of the Siberian Military District in October 1927, Berzarin commanded a platoon of
126-686: A performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic for Hitler's birthday. Following the end of the performance, Joseph Goebbels approached the podium to shake Furtwängler's hand. This concert led to intense criticism of Furtwängler after the war. After Furtwängler (who was personally opposed to the Nazi regime ) fled to Switzerland to escape arrest by the Gestapo in January 1945, Leo Borchard became chief conductor. The final wartime concert
168-544: A skating rink and converted by the architect Franz Schwechten . In 1899, a smaller concert hall, the Beethovensaal on Köthener Straße, was also inaugurated for chamber music and chamber ensembles. The first Philharmonie was used until British bombers destroyed it on 30 January 1944, the anniversary of Hitler becoming chancellor. The orchestra played until the end of the war in the Staatsoper , Unter den Linden . The Staatsoper
210-671: A teacher of the Karajan Academy, he trained numerous young violinists, some of whom are now members of our orchestra themselves." Berlin Philharmonic The Berlin Philharmonic (German: Berliner Philharmoniker ) is a German orchestra based in Berlin . It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected orchestras in the world. The Berlin Philharmonic was founded in Berlin in 1882 by 54 musicians under
252-770: The 1st Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front in July 1940. Berzarin's rank was changed to major general when the Red Army introduced general officer ranks on 4 June 1940. In May 1941, he was appointed commander of the newly formed 27th Army , stationed at Riga in the Baltic Special Military District . After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Berzarin commanded the army as part of the Northwestern Front in
294-573: The 20th Army from 4 January 1943. Berzarin distinguished himself in the fighting in the Battles of Rzhev and the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive in March. During the latter, he was seriously wounded near Vyazma on 17 March and spent several months in the hospital. Berzarin was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general on 28 April. Upon his recovery, Berzarin was returned to army command, taking over
336-625: The 39th Army in September. He led the army as part of the 1st Baltic and 3rd Belorussian Fronts in the Smolensk operation and the winter offensive battles of 1943 and 1944 near Vitebsk . Berzarin was transferred to command the 5th Shock Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front on 27 May. The army was transferred north to the 1st Belorussian Front in October and Berzarin led it in the Vistula–Oder offensive that began in January 1945. For his command of
378-659: The Baltic strategic defensive operation , during which it defended the Baltic Sea coast. The army entered action in July and was forced to retreat to the lines of the Western Dvina , Velikaya , and Lovat rivers under the pressure of the German advance. The 27th Army counterattacked near Kholm in August and subsequently fought in defensive actions near Demyansk , stopping the German advance on
420-600: The Philharmonia Quartet Berlin , in which he was second violin. He taught at the Karajan Academy . He died on 26 July 2019, aged 60, after a serious illness. Knut Weber, cellist and member of the Berlin Philharmonic's orchestra board, said: "Not only was he an outstanding musician, but for more than twenty years he represented the Berlin Philharmonic as a member of the Fünferrat (council of five). In addition, as
462-473: The Tsarist tradition of rewarding the first commander to enter a city with command over it. By his "Order No. 1" on 28 April, Berzarin assumed all governmental power. He worked to re-establish order in the ruined German capital, creating a city police force and supplying the population with food, water, gas and electricity, as well as re-opening schools and theatres. On 17 May, he appointed non-partisan Arthur Werner
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#1732898891671504-550: The 77th Novgorod Rifle Regiment of the army's 26th Rifle Division in February 1935, receiving the rank of colonel when the rank was introduced in late 1935, and in August 1937 chief of the 2nd Department of the staff of the army's Primorsky Group of Forces . During the Great Purge in 1938, the NKVD tried to implicate Berzarin in the case of the executed commander Ivan Fedko but the case
546-544: The Berlin Philharmonic established the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize in Abbado's honour. In June 1999, the musicians elected Sir Simon Rattle as their next chief conductor. Rattle made it a condition of his signing with the Berlin Philharmonic that it be turned into a self-governing public foundation, with the power to make its own artistic and financial decisions. This required a change to state law, which
588-514: The Berlin Wall in 1989. Abbado expanded the orchestra's repertoire beyond the core classical and romantic works into more modern 20th-century works . Abbado stepped down from the chief conductorship of the orchestra in 2002. During the post-unification period, the orchestra encountered financial problems resulting from budgetary stress in the city of Berlin. In 2006, the Orchestra Academy of
630-1200: The Digital Concert Hall additionally offers livestreams produced from HD movies of concerts by Herbert von Karajan in the 1960s and early 1970s. Since 2010, selected concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic have been transmitted live to cinemas in Germany and Europe. The orchestra conferred honorary membership to the conductors Daniel Barenboim (he is also the first and only honorary conductor), Bernard Haitink , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Seiji Ozawa , Mariss Jansons , and Zubin Mehta . Classical BRIT Awards Grand Prix du Disque Awards Grammy Awards Gramophone Awards ECHO (formerly Deutscher Schallplattenpreis ) of Deutsche Phono-Akademie ICMA ( International Classical Music Awards ) Timbre de Platine (Platinum Stamp) awarded by Opéra International magazine Diapason magazine Nikolai Berzarin Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin ( Russian : Никола́й Эра́стович Берза́рин; 1 April 1904 – 16 June 1945)
672-447: The army in the offensive, Berzarin was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on 6 April. He was promoted to the rank of colonel general on 20 April. During the Battle of Berlin , Berzarin's 5th Shock Army reached the eastern outskirts of Berlin on 21 April 1945, making them the first Soviet Army to do so. On 24 April, he was appointed commander of the city by Marshal Zhukov , in an echo of
714-744: The city primary school, completing these in 1914 with the speciality of bookbinder . Berzarin worked as an unskilled laborer at the Saint Petersburg harbor. His father died in 1917, followed by his mother in 1918. Berzarin joined the Red Army on 14 October 1918, beginning his service as a Red Army man in the 17th Petrograd Army Combat Sector. During the Russian Civil War he fought on the Northern Front against Allied troops in Archangelsk and in
756-485: The conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra and one of the most famous piano virtuosos of the time, took over the post. This helped to establish the orchestra's international reputation, and guests Hans Richter , Felix von Weingartner , Richard Strauss , Gustav Mahler , Johannes Brahms and Edvard Grieg conducted the orchestra over the next few years. In 1887, the pianist and composer Mary Wurm became
798-700: The courses and in October 1928 became a class commander there. Berzarin rose to command a training company at the Irkutsk Infantry School in April 1931. He served as responsible secretary of the party bureau of the Irkutsk Training Courses for Infantry Commanders from March 1932, and in July 1933 became assistant chief of the combat training department of the staff of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army . He became commander of
840-612: The first post-war Mayor of Berlin presiding over a civil city government. On 16 June 1945, after only 55 days in office, he was killed in a motorcycle accident when he collided with a truck convoy near his office in Berlin- Friedrichsfelde , aged 41. Berzarin is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow . In 1975 Berzarin posthumously was bestowed honorary citizenship of East Berlin . After German reunification he
882-459: The first woman to conduct the orchestra. Programmes of this period show that the orchestra possessed only 46 strings, much less than the Wagnerian ideal of 64. In 1895, Arthur Nikisch became chief conductor, and was succeeded in 1923 by Wilhelm Furtwängler . Despite several changes in leadership, the orchestra continued to perform throughout World War II . On 20 April 1942, Furtwängler conducted
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#1732898891671924-497: The general manager of the orchestra was Pamela Rosenberg. In September 2010, Martin Hoffmann became the orchestra's new Intendant . Hoffmann stood down as its Intendant after the close of the 2016/2017 season. Andrea Zietzschmann became Intendantin of the orchestra as of the 2017–2018 season. In December 2020, the orchestra announced the extension of Zietzschmann's contract as Intendantin until 31 August 2025. In February 2024,
966-481: The home of the Berlin Philharmonic, and its symbol. The orchestra's logo is based on the pentagon-shape of the concert hall. On 20 May 2008, a fire broke out at the Philharmonie. One-quarter of the roof underwent considerable damage as firefighters cut openings to reach the flames beneath the roof. The hall interior also sustained water damage, but was otherwise "generally unharmed". The firefighters limited damage by
1008-626: The line of Lakes Velye and Seliger in early October. Berzarin was transferred to command the 34th Army of the front in December, leading it in the encirclement of German troops in the Demyansk Pocket during February 1942, but was unable to prevent the relief of the pocket in May. Berzarin was demoted to deputy commander of the 61st Army of the Bryansk Front in October, then served as deputy commander of
1050-460: The name Frühere Bilsesche Kapelle (literally, "Former Bilse's Band"); the group broke away from their previous conductor Benjamin Bilse after he announced his intention of taking the band on a fourth-class train to Warsaw for a concert. The orchestra was renamed and reorganized under the financial management of Hermann Wolff in 1882. Their new conductor was Ludwig von Brenner ; in 1887 Hans von Bülow ,
1092-542: The orchestra announced a further extension of Zietzschmann's contract as Intendantin through the summer of 2028. In 2006, the orchestra announced it would investigate its role during the Nazi regime . In 2007, Misha Aster published The Reich's Orchestra , his study of the relationship of the Berlin Philharmonic to the rulers of the Third Reich. Also in 2007, the documentary film The Reichsorchester by Enrique Sánchez Lansch
1134-542: The orchestra announced that Petrenko was to formally commence his contract as chief conductor with the 2019/20 season. A year after this news, in October 2016, the orchestra specified more precisely the start of Petrenko's tenure as 19 August 2019. The orchestra's first concert hall , the Philharmonie situated on the Bernburger Straße in Berlin Kreuzberg , was inaugurated in 1882 in a building previously used as
1176-406: The orchestra voted 73 to 4 not to admit her to the orchestra. Meyer subsequently left the orchestra. After Karajan stood down from the orchestra in 1989, the orchestra offered the chief conductorship to Carlos Kleiber , who declined. In 1989, the orchestra elected Claudio Abbado as its next principal conductor. It was the first time the Philharmonic resorted to democratic voting after the fall of
1218-412: The post from 1955 until his resignation in April 1989, only months before his death. Under him, the orchestra made a vast number of recordings and toured widely, growing and gaining fame. The orchestra hired its first female musician, violinist Madeleine Carruzzo , in 1982. However, Karajan's hiring in September 1982 of Sabine Meyer , the first female wind player to the orchestra, led to controversy when
1260-664: The recordings were done at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin Dahlem , celebrated for its acoustics. The need for a new Philharmonie was expressed since 1949, when the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Berliner Philharmonie e.V. (Friends of the Berliner Philharmonie Society) was created to gather funds. The building of the new Philharmonie started in 1961, following the design of architect Hans Scharoun , and it
1302-510: The suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion . Berzarin received command training at the 2nd Petrograd Infantry Command Courses and upon graduation in September 1923 was appointed a squad leader in the 5th Amur Rifle Regiment. Berzarin rose to command a platoon in the regimental school in March 1924, and fought in the destruction of Zazeyskoye uprising in Amur Oblast that year as assistant chief of
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1344-528: The use of foam. The orchestra was restricted from use of the hall for concerts until June 2008. On 18 December 2008, the orchestra announced the official creation of a Digital Concert Hall . This hitherto unique internet platform of the BPO enables persons with computer access all over the world to see and hear the Philharmonic's concerts, live or on demand, not only under recent conductors, but even previous concerts conducted, e.g., by Claudio Abbado . Since July 2014,
1386-524: Was a Red Army colonel general who held field army commands during World War II . A Hero of the Soviet Union , in 1945 he became the first commandant of the Soviet occupying forces in Berlin . Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin was born in Saint Petersburg on 1 April 1904, the son of a Putilov Factory lathe operator and a seamstress. He had one brother and three sisters. In 1913 he began night courses at
1428-615: Was also destroyed on 3 February 1945. In need of a venue, the Berlin Philharmonic played during the years following the war in the Titania-Palast , an old movie theater converted in a concert hall, and still used the Beethovensaal for smaller concerts. During the 1950s the orchestra moved its concerts at the Musikhochschule (today part of the Berlin University of the Arts ), in the Joseph-Joachim-Konzertsaal. However, most of
1470-499: Was approved in 2001, allowing him to join the organization in 2002. In his first season, he initiated community projects, such as a performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps danced by 250 public school children, documented in Rhythm Is It! . Rattle's contract with the orchestra was initially until 2012. In April 2008, the BPO musicians voted in favour of retaining Rattle as their chief conductor until 2018. From 2006 to 2010,
1512-417: Was closed due to lack of evidence. That year, his daughter Irina was born. In July, freshly appointed commander of the 32nd Rifle Division the previous month, Berzarin took part in the Battle of Lake Khasan . He was promoted to kombrig on 31 December 1938. After Lake Khasan, Berzarin's career developed quickly: he was appointed commander of the 59th Rifle Corps in February 1939 and deputy commander of
1554-726: Was deployed in Vladivostok at the questioned time. From 1947 until 1991 Petersburger Straße in Berlin- Friedrichshain , a section of the Inner Ring Road , was named Bersarinstraße in his honour, the Bersarinplatz roundabout bears his name up to today. In April 2005, a road bridge in Berlin- Marzahn was named after Berzarin, in the area where his army reached the Berlin city limits in 1945. A birch tree planted in 2005 and
1596-668: Was formally removed from the roll of honorary citizens by the Senate of Berlin in 1992. Upon a resolution by the Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus parliament, he regained his honorary citizenship in 2003, in view of his merits concerning the supply of the local population. Detractors of the re-awarding claimed that Berzarin was a Stalinist and involved in Soviet war crimes being responsible for the deportation of 47,000 Balts in 1940. These accusations, however, were proven wrong later on, as Berzarin
1638-547: Was inaugurated on 15 October 1963, with a performance of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony , conducted by Herbert von Karajan . Its location made it part of the Kulturforum , and the great hall (2,440 seats) was then complemented by a chamber-music hall, the Kammermusiksaal (1,180 seats), built in 1987, following the design of architect Edgar Wisniewski , after a project by Hans Scharoun. The Berliner Philharmonie has since been
1680-435: Was on 12 April 1945, just before the commencement of the Battle of Berlin . The program included Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene, the finale from Wagner's Götterdämmerung ( Twilight of the Gods ). Hitler Youth members are reported to have distributed cyanide pills to the audience for those who wished, by death, to escape the imminent arrival of the Red Army . The battle forced the orchestra to close for two months, but it
1722-523: Was quickly reopened by the Soviet occupation authorities under the East Berlin commandant General Nikolai Berzarin on 26 May 1945. Borchard was accidentally shot and killed later in 1945 by the U.S. Army forces occupying West Berlin . Sergiu Celibidache then took over as chief conductor for seven years, from 1945 to 1952. Furtwängler returned as chief conductor in 1952 and held the post until his death in 1954. The orchestra elected Herbert von Karajan as its next chief conductor. Karajan served in
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1764-516: Was released. UNICEF appointed the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Rattle as Goodwill Ambassadors in November 2007. On 10 January 2013, the orchestra announced the scheduled end of Rattle's tenure as artistic director and chief conductor in 2018. In 2014, the orchestra founded its own label, Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings. After an abortive first attempt on 11 May 2015, the orchestra on 21 June 2015 elected Kirill Petrenko as its next artistic director and chief conductor. In October 2015,
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