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20-811: Götaplatsen is Gothenburg's cultural hub, enclosed by the Gothenburg Concert Hall (where the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra resides), the Gothenburg Museum of Art , the Gothenburg City Theatre and the City Library. At the centre of the square presides the Poseidon statue by Carl Milles —the statue has become one of the symbols of the city. On the city's annual culture festival different Swedish musical artists usually perform free at

40-704: A joint venture with Netherlands-based Philips to create the DGG/PPI Record Group, which became PolyGram Records in 1972. By this time, DGG had built a reputation for high-quality recording in the classical field as well as a notable roster of contracted singers, musicians, and conductors. Through its subsidiary label Archiv Produktion it also stimulated interest in Western medieval and renaissance music, 15th – 16th century choral polyphony, Gregorian chant , and pioneering use of "historical instruments" and performance practices in recordings. DGG/ Polydor 's entrance into

60-724: A reputation well outside the Swedish borders; Deutsche Grammophon has used the Concert Hall as a studio for a number of records, for example. A number of progressive rock bands (among others Yes and Roxy Music ) have also performed at the Gothenburg Concert Hall. The Concert Hall is the home stage of the Gothenburg Symphony . 57°41′49″N 11°58′45″E  /  57.69694°N 11.97917°E  / 57.69694; 11.97917 This Gothenburg -related article

80-456: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gothenburg Concert Hall Gothenburg Concert Hall is a concert hall located in Gothenburg , Sweden , which was built in 1935. The architect for the facility was Nils Einar Ericsson , a major advocate of Functionalism . However, the Concert Hall has a Neo-Classical exterior look, due to the surrounding area at Götaplatsen where

100-528: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon ( German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ɡʁamoˈfoːn] ; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram . Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain , it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of labels in 1999. Deutsche Grammophon

120-491: Is the world's oldest surviving established record company. Presidents of the company are Frank Briegmann, Chairman and CEO Central Europe of Universal Music Group and Clemens Trautmann. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft was founded in 1898 by German-born United States citizen Emile Berliner as the German branch of his Berliner Gramophone Company. Berliner sent his nephew Joseph Sanders from America to set up operations. Based in

140-471: The Berlin Philharmonic for sale in the new medium in 1983, the first recording being Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie . Deutsche Grammophon has a huge back catalogue of notable recordings. The company was reissuing a portion of it in its Originals series; compact disc releases are noted for their vinyl record stylized design. It is also releasing some of American Decca Records ' albums from

160-528: The Gothenburg Concert Hall was built on the other side of Götaplatsen. In 1967, the Gothenburg Public Library was opened. This is next door to Lorensbergsteatern , below the Gothenburg City Theatre across Berzeliigatan. [REDACTED] Media related to Götaplatsen at Wikimedia Commons 57°41′49.8″N 11°58′46.5″E  /  57.697167°N 11.979583°E  / 57.697167; 11.979583 This Gothenburg -related article

180-652: The Gothenburg Exhibition . Much of the southern part of Götaplatsen is terraced in stone with wide stairs leading up to the Gothenburg Museum of Art's seven high arches. Until the 1980s, the Museum of Art´s entrance was positioned at the top of the archway. Today however, the entrance has been moved a number of levels further down, closer to the street level, where the Hasselblad Centre is also located. Across

200-589: The 1940s and 1950s, such as those that Leonard Bernstein made for Decca in 1953, and the classic Christmas album that features Ronald Colman 's starring in A Christmas Carol and Charles Laughton 's narrating Mr. Pickwick's Christmas . Along with the American Decca Records classical music catalogue, Deutsche Grammophon also manages the classical music catalogue of ABC Records , including Westminster Records which, along with American Decca, were part of MCA Records . Although Deutsche Grammophon acquired

220-770: The US market in 1969 (DGG had previous been distributed in the US by Decca and MGM Records ) came at a time when the leading US classical music labels RCA Victor Red Seal and Columbia Masterworks were dropping most of their unlucrative classical artists and pressing inferior quality records. DGG's high quality recordings and pressings attracted artists such as Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra (who had recorded for RCA Victor since 1935) and Leonard Bernstein (after several years with Columbia) to DGG/Polydor. In 1987, Siemens sold off its interest in PolyGram, and Philips became

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240-583: The building is placed – the Art Museum and the City Theatre are solid classically designed buildings as well, and were built before the Concert Hall. In contrast to the exterior, the Concert Hall's interior is modernistic. The main auditorium’s plain shaped walls are clad in yellowish-red maple veneer and there are 1,300 seats. There is also a smaller concert hall, Stenhammarsalen, for chamber concerts. The acoustic qualities of Gothenburg Concert Hall have given it

260-640: The city of Hanover (the founder's birthplace), the company became a fully owned subsidiary of the Gramophone Company Ltd. in 1900 and an affiliate of the US Victor Talking Machine Company . After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the company seceded from the Gramophone Company. Though no longer affiliated with Gramophone Company and Victor, Deutsche Grammophon retained the " His Master's Voice " trademark featuring Nipper

280-442: The crown of tulips, designed by Siemens advertising consultant Hans Domizlaff. The distinctive yellow cartouche banner, occupying almost a third of each recording's cover, first appeared in 1957 and was a staple of the majority of its full-price recordings until the early years of the 21st century, when it all but disappeared from new releases. It has since enjoyed something of a revival in newer recordings. In 1962, Siemens formed

300-599: The dog for use in Germany until the late 1940s; for several years following its secession, the company even continued selling recordings made from pre-war matrices owned by the Gramophone Company and Victor. In 1941, Deutsche Grammophon was purchased by Siemens & Halske . In 1949, Deutsche Grammophon sold the German rights of the His Master's Voice trademark to the Electrola unit of EMI . The dog and gramophone were replaced by

320-407: The gallery, which is located as a side-house to the Gothenburg Museum of Art at Götaplatsen’s southeastern corner, stood a triumphal arch which was the entrance to the exhibition area during the Gothenburg Exhibition . This triumphal arch was demolished in 1928. The statue was inaugurated on 24 September 1931. The Gothenburg City Theatre was opened on 29 September 1934. The following year, in 1935,

340-511: The majority shareholder. In 1998, the Seagram company of Canada purchased Deutsche Grammophon and PolyGram on behalf of its Universal Music Group subsidiary. Since then, UMG was sold and became a division of Vivendi until its IPO in September 2021. Deutsche Grammophon pioneered the introduction of the compact disc to the mass market, debuting classical music performed by Herbert von Karajan and

360-539: The recordings and re-released them on his own label. Other German composers associated with the label included Paul Hindemith and Hans Werner Henze . Contemporary composers whose works were released by Deutsche Grammophon include Hildur Guðnadóttir , Sofia Gubaidulina , Oliver Knussen , Mark-Anthony Turnage , Mohammed Fairouz , Péter Eötvös , Luigi Nono , Sven Helbig , Jonny Greenwood , Bryce Dessner , Witold Lutosławski , Philip Glass , Vangelis , Tori Amos and Max Richter . The conductor most associated with

380-455: The reputation of releasing mainstream classical recordings, from the 1960s onwards it released an increasing number of avant-garde recordings (initially under the Avant-Garde imprint), including Bruno Maderna , David Bedford , Cornelius Cardew , Luigi Nono and improvisations. It also released the majority of the compositions of Karlheinz Stockhausen until the composer bought the rights to

400-408: The square, bands like Hardcore Superstar , Mustasch and Teddybears have all performed on this occasion. Götaplatsen got its name in 1914, but until 1923 the area was strictly rural. Götaplatsen was designed by the architects Sigfrid Ericson and Arvid Bjerke and construction began in 1921. The Gothenburg Museum of Art was completed just in time before Gothenburg’s 300th anniversary in 1923,

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