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Title: Italian and Spanish Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: Dundonnell on October 19, 2015, 06:24:58 pm
No. 16 of series

La Scala Opera, Milan:         

Arturo Toscanini:       1921-1929
Victor de Sabata:      1930-1953
Carlo Maria Giulini:    1953-1956
Guido Cantelli:           1956
Gianandrea Gavazenni:1966-1968
Claudio Abbado:         1968-1986
Riccardo Muti:             1986-2005
Daniel Barenboim:     2007-2014
Riccardo Chailly:        2015-


Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi(1993):

Vladimir Delman:   1993-1994
Ricardo Chailly:      1999-2005
Xian Zhang:            2009-


RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Turin (1994 by merger of radio orchestras in Rome, Milan, Naples and Turin):

Mario Rossi:           1946-1967
Piero Bellugi:         1967-197
Aldo Ceccata:        198 -1990
Frank Shipway:     1991-1994
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos: 2001-2007
Juraj Valcuha:       2009-2016
James Conlon:      2016-


Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome(1908; Augusteo Orchestra until 1936):

Bernardino Molinari:      1912-1944
Franco Ferrara:              1944-1945
Fernando Previtali:        1953-1973
Igor Markevitch:             1973-1975
Thomas Schippers:        1976-1977
Giuseppe Sinopoli:         1983-1987
Uto Ughi:                         1987-1992
Daniele Gatti:                 1992-1997
Myung-Whun Chung:    1997-2005
Sir Antonio Pappano:   2005-



Spanish National Orchestra(1940):      

Bartolome Perez Casas:   1942-1947
Ataulfo Argenta:                 1947-1958
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos:1962-1978
Antoni Ros-Marba:              1978-1981
Jesus Lopez-Coboz:           1984-1989
Aldo Ceccato:                      1991-1994
Josep Pons:                         2003-2011
David Afkham:                    2014-


RTVE Symphony Orchestra-Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra(1965):

Igor Markevitch:              1965
Antonio Ros-Marba:        1965-1967
Enrique Garcia Asensio: 1967-1984
Odon Alonso:                    1968-1984
Miguel Gomez Martinez:1984-1987
Arpad Joo:                         1988-1990
Sergiu Comissiona:         1990-1998
Enrique Garcia Asensio: 1998-2001
Adrian Leaper:                 2001-2010
Carlos Kalmar:                 2011-



Title: Re: Italian and Spanish Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: Toby Esterhase on October 19, 2015, 11:27:12 pm

http://www.conservatorioperosi.it/cms/it/orchestra-sinfonica-regionale-del-molise.html



Title: Re: Italian and Spanish Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: albert on October 20, 2015, 10:13:36 am
Orchestra di Milano G.Verdi
1993-1994 The first principal was Vladimir Delman
After his death (1994) and before Chailly an interim directorship was taken by Alun Francis and Gianandrea Noseda.

Orchestra Nazionale RAI, Turin
In the Years 1994-2000 Eliahu Inbal , with de title of "Honoray Conductor".

In earlier years the Radio Orchestra of Turin, after Mario Rossi and 1969, had Piero Bellugi (up to circa 1973).
In the last four years (1991-1994) principal was Frank Shipway, and before him Aldo Ceccato (circa 1985-1990).
From 1974 up to 1984 "de facto" principals were Wilfried Boettcher, later Ferdinand Leitner, later Gary Bertini.

Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
Never there was the violinist Uto Ughi.


Title: Re: Italian and Spanish Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: Dundonnell on October 21, 2015, 03:38:03 am
Thank you :)

I have incorporated some of the additional information provided and removed Ughi from the list of conductors of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia-although this is asserted all over the internet ::)