Cairo Symphony Orchestra

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The Cairo Symphony Orchestra, (Arabic: اوركسترا القاهرة السيمفونى‎; Orkestra el-Qāhera el-Semfōni), is an orchestra based in Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 1959 by its first music director and conductor, . Its current principal conductor is Ahmed El Saedi.[1]

History[]

The Orchestra was founded in 1959 under its first music director and conductor, Franz Litschauer, and from mid-1959 to 1963 it was conducted by the Yugoslavian Serbs Gika Zdravkovitch (1959–1960) and Dushan Miladinovitch (1960–1963) (Serbian: Живојин Здравковић, Živojin Zdravković; Душан Миладиновић, Dušan Miladinović). Two Egyptian conductors, and Youssef Elsisi, succeeded Litschauer as conductors of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra.

Guest conductors and soloists[]

Many international guest conductors such as Charles Munch, Yehudi Menuhin, Alexander Frey, Patrick Fournillier, Carlo Zecchi, , Ole Schmidt, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Janos Kukla, Alain Pâris, Felix Carrasco, and others have led the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. In April 2009, Israeli-Argentinean conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim played Beethoven's piano sonata no. 8 (known as "Sonata Pathétique"), and conducted the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2016-09-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "BBC News: Barenboim gets ovation in Cairo". 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2010-04-28.

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