The Concerts

In 1997, we published a listing of some 3,200 concerts conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, between 1906 and 1954.

Seven years later, we are republishing for Furtwängler's admirers this updated listing, corrected, annotated and augmented, based on new research on careful examination of the press during Furtwängler's lifetime. Our original compilation indeed contained some mistakes (almost unavoidable in this kind of work). A few examples: we called an Italian singer Mirella Freni instead of... Fleri! Likewise, for the concert of February 22 1922 we indicated Liszt's Fantasie hongroise whereas in reality it should read Hungaria (opus 9). But we are also able to supply new information We discovered in fact that during the concert of February 11 1934, he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bruno Kittel choir in eight Schumann choral works orchestrated by Hans Pfitzner. Last but not least, some ten unknown concerts were discovered, the most important discovery being Furtwängler's activity at the Opéra de Lille on April... 1916, with the troupe of the Mannheim Opera.

We cannot claim that this listing is hundred percent complete but we think that the number of missing or still unknown concerts has now been reduced to a minimum. It is certain that Furtwängler didn't conduct the Gürzenich in Cologne, or the Dresden Staatskapelle or the Czech Philharmonic. Neither did he conduct any Spanish, Romanian or Greek orchestras, as did Karajan and others. As far as opera is concerned, contrary to conductors such as Walter or Knappertsbusch, there is no trace of his activity at the Berlin Kroll-Oper, at the Barcelona Liceu or at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. And so on. One can always imagine that Furtwängler conducted a few concerts with some second-rate provincial orchestras (as was the case, for example, in March 1953 with the Kassel Staatskapelle) but it was not customary for him to do so.

In our opinion, this updated document is a comprehensive overview of Furtwängler's repertoire, which of course was not restricted to Beethoven's Fifth, or the prelude of the Meistersinger or Brahms's First. It appears that Furtwängler did conduct the music of his own time more often that generally assumed and that he premiered quite a number of works that, for the most part, have fallen into oblivion. Besides, having studied the repertoire of other famous conductors of the twentieth century, we maintain that the two most "Spartan" repertoires were those of Karajan and Knappertsbusch who invariably only conducted works in which they were at their most brilliant.

The sheer number of concerts is also a factor. Stokowsky is said to have conducted some 8000 concerts but he lived to be over ninety years old... In our set commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Furtwängler's death anniversary we wrote that he conducted more works than Toscanini and over a shorter time, contradicting Harvey Sachs's claims. As far as opera is concerned, only Krauss, Böhm, Toscanini, Knappertsbusch, Serafin, Walter and some others (Capuana) had a wider repertoire than Furtwängler. (Jochum and Karajan had about the same repertoire as Furtwängler). Of course, it is a widely accepted truth that statistics show the obvious issues but hide the essential ones! What conclusions would we draw then from the concert listing of Scherchen who conducted music that stretched all the way from Monteverdi to the most contemporary of compisitiuons? Our adventure continues...

19 February 1906

Beethoven: die Weihe des Hauses - Furtwängler: Symphonic Poem in B minor - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

* First concert of Furtwängler with the Kaim Orchestra of Munich in the hall of the Tonhalle

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Zurich 1906 - 1907

10 October

"Tanzbilder": Music by Blättermann

* It is a ballet by Valérie Lindau, danced by herself, Gabriele Klobetz and the ballet of the Zurich Theatre. On the same evening Max Conrad conducted two additional works: Djamileh, one-act opera by Bizet and Dvorak's Dickschädel.

31 October

Pfitzner: das Fest auf Solhaug (Egbert Soltau, Frieda Winter, Johanna Terwin, Edwin Althauser)

23, 24, 25, 27 & 30 December, 1, 2, 13, 20 & 27 January

Rübezahl: Music by Bertrand Sänger (Edwin Althauser, Adolph Meyer, Max Wogritsch, Fränze Koch, Vally Felden, etc.)

3, 8 & 25 February, 3, 10 & 21 March, 1, 15 & 21 April

Franz Lehar: die lustige Witwe (Bruno Wünschmann, Ida Holms, Albert Trebe, Aurelie Revy, etc.)

The three-year period between Zurich and Strasburg (May 1907 to September 1910) is not very well documented. We only know that Furtwängler was in Breslau (today Wroclaw in Poland) where he worked as co-repetitor for the chorus, a post that he had been assigned by Georg Dohrn, a friend of his mother's who was in charge of music in Breslau. After Breslau, Furtwängler went to Munich, again working as co-repetitor at the Opera, under Felix Mottl (1907-1909). According to the Munich municipal library, he didn't conduct a single concert there.

Concert programme of 3 February 1907 - Click on image to enlarge

Programme of the opera performance of 3 February 1907

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Strasburg 1910 - 1911

On September 8 1910, Furtwängler left Munich for Strasburg where he stayed until April 1 1911, at the Nikolaus Ring 11/II, lodging with a certain Mrs. Beike. The town's musical life (at the time Strasburg was German) was dominated by Hans Pfitzner and his assistants Richard Fried and Hermann Büchel. Furtwängler was third assistant conductor, and conducted sixteen performances of six operas that he never again conducted. The press was very mixed: one review spoke of his performance of P'tites Michu as being "light as an elephant", another wrote that his Martha "was quite unsatisfactory".

Elisabeth Furtwängler wrote in her Memoirs:

"He was then invited to Strasburg where Pfitzner was king. Nevertheless, he conducted a few operas. (...) In the Fledermaus, he dressed up as a gipsy, wearing a long black beard and played the piano part in the concert in honor of Prince Orlowsky."

This is confirmed in the program of February 27 and 28 1911.

Furtwängler returned to Strasburg only twice: on December 6 1911 to conduct his own Te Deum and on April 29 1932, for the Music Festival, as part of a tour with the Berlin Philharmonic.

27 September

Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore (Ernestine Croissant, Adam Würthele, Hans Alwin, Paula Spurny, Max Hölzchen)

18, 29 October & 17 November

Maillart: les Dragons de Villars (Max Dornbusch, Paula Spurny, Otto Knappe, Franz Jelinek, Ernestine Croissant)

27 & 31 December

Flotow: Martha (Hélène Knappe, Agnès Hermann, Clemens Schaarschmidt, Hermann Plücker)

1 & 7 January

Messager: les P'tites Michu (Gustav Schmidt, Clementine Pätsch, Otto Knappe, Emil Feige, Elvira Arlow, Paula Spurny)

14 January

Maillart: les Dragons de Villars (Max Dornbusch, Paula Spurny, Otto Knappe, Franz Jelinek, Ernestine Croissant)

17 January

Messager: les P'tites Michu

Gustav Schmidt, Clementine Pätsch, Otto Knappe, Emil Feige, Elvira Arlow, Paula Spurny

26 January

Flotow: Martha (Elsa Osten, Paula Spurny, Clemens Schaar-Schmidt, Paul Grunow, Josef Niklaus, Marie Schmidt)

2 February

Maillart: les Dragons de Villars (Max Dornbusch, Paula Spurny, Otto Knappe, Franz Jelinek, Ernestine Croissant)

* Furtwängler meets Bruno Walter who conducts on February 22 the first performance of a symphony composed by himself.

4 March

Suppé: Flotte Bursche (Emil Feige, Martha Mylo, Marie Dietrich, Irma Schilling, Dora Lenbach, August Fischer, Thérèse Kachelriss)

11 March

Verdi: Rigoletto (Annie Norden, Albert Hermanns, Paul Grunow, Josef Niklaus, Alice Gütersloh)

Programme of the opera performance of 11 March 1911

19 March

Suppé: Flotte Bursche (Emil Feige, Martha Mylo, Marie Dietrich, Irma Schilling, Dora Lenbach, August Fischer, Thérèse Kachelriss)

31 March

Flotow: Martha (Hélène Knappe, Agnès Hermann, Clemens Schaarschmidt, Adam Würthele, Josef Niklaus, Marie Dietrich)

5 April, Lübeck

* Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts at the Stadthalle the Season's 27th popular concert as test concert. According to the press of the time, he conducted the following works:

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (3rd and 4th movements) - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - Sibelius: Valse triste - Maillart: les Dragons de Villars, Overture - Fantasy on themes from Gounod's Faust (composer ?) - Volkmann: Cello Concerto (Emil Corbach) - J. Strauss: Wiener Blut

Concert programme of 5 April 1911

Lübeck

In January 1897, the "Verein der Musikfreunde" (Society of the Friends of Music), founded in 1896, organised a competition in order to find a new conductor. There were three candidates: Ugo Afferni, Franz Kessel and Karl Franck. Afferni won the competition and conducted his first concert on October 6. He was to conduct the symphonic concerts and the popular concerts (he conducted 275 during his eight years' activity in Lübeck) of each Season. His wife, the violinist May Brammer, played the solo part in many concerts and Nikisch was invited four times as guest-conductor, along with Richard Strauss who accompanied his wife, the singer Pauline de Ahna. at the piano.

On April 3 1905, Afferni left Lübeck, conducting the Beethoven Ninth for his final concert. On April 25, the Verein chose Hermann Abendroth to succeed him. Abendroth remained six Seasons in Lübeck and was then appointed musical director in Essen in November 1910. Ninety-seven potential conductors applied for the post in Lübeck, of which four were chosen to conduct the orchestra in concert at a series of auditions: Paul Scheinpflug, Karl Mennicke, Walter Unger and Rudolf Siegel. Scheinpflug withdrew from the competition, and another candidate was substituted on the suggestion of Mrs. Ida Boy-Ed. This is how on April 5 1911, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted his audition in front of four thousand people . On April 13 he was chosen unanimously as successor to Abendroth. He remained five years in Lübeck, and conducted on three separate occasions as guest conductor at the Opera ("Gastdirigent"): Fidelio, The Merry Widows of Windsor and the Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

In the "Lübeckische Blätte" of 1926, for the city's 700th anniversary he wrote: "I fondly remember my years as an apprentice Kapellmeister in Lübeck, which had a very good orchestra and a very lively musical life..." Among Furtwängler's successors were Georg Göhler, a great interpreter of Mahler (he gave the German premiere of Mahler's Eighth symphony in Berlin and Hamburg), and Franz von Hösslin.

Who was Ida Boy-Ed whose name and vast literary work are almost totally forgotten today?

She was born on April 17 1852 in Bergedorf. Her father, Christophe Ed, was a printer and founded his own newspaper, the "Eisenbahn-Zeitung". At the age of eighteen, she married Carl Johann Boy, the son of a patrician family of Lübeck. They had four children. She wrote short stories for the papers, for example Thaddeas Erbe for the Frankfurter Zeitung. In 1882, her first book was published, ein Tropfen but her greatest success was ein königlicher Kaufmann. She was a great friend of Thomas Mann and died May 13 1928, in a sanatorium in Travemünde.

Furtwängler wrote to her daughter on May 18:

"The only thing I can say about the death of your mother is that I feel deeply bound to you in the same pain of losing such a an extraordinary and generous person. Personally I have lost a friend as I will never find again and whose memory I will always cherish".

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Lübeck - Season 1911 - 1912

4 October (1st popular concert)

Beethoven: Egmont - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Sullivan: the Mikado, medley - Ziehrer: Weana Madln, opus 388

11 October

Beethoven: Fidelio, Overture - Bizet: Carmen, medley - Liszt: les Préludes - Suppé: Leichte Kavallerie

18 October

Goldmark: im Frühling, Overture opus 36 - Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz - Liszt: Rhapsody No. 13 - De Swert: Cello Concerto (Emil Corbach)

21 October (1st symphonic concert)

Concert Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Piano concerto No. 5 (Karl Friedberg) & Leonore Overture No. III

25 October

Cherubini: der Wasserträger, Overture - Liszt: die Hunnenschlacht - Wagner: Siegfried, murmures de la forêt; die Walküre, Walkürenritt - Nessler: der Trompeter von Säckingen, medley

1 November

Dvorak: Husitska, Overture - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2 - Kalman: Herbstmanöver, medley from the operetta - Waldteufel: auf glückes Wegen, waltz

8 November

Wagner concert: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude; die Walküre, entrance of the Gods into the Walhalla, Wotan's farewell and Magic Fire scene

15 November

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Aria - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Offenbach: Hoffmann's Erzählungen, intermezzo

18 November (2nd symphonic concert)

Liszt: Dante, Symphony after the Divina Commedia (Clara Senius-Euler) - Haendel: l'Allegro, il pensieroso ed il moderato, Aria (Clara Senius-Euler) - Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, love scene - Lieder by Wagner, Liszt and Weingartner (Clara Senius-Euler and Furtwängler, piano) - Berlioz: le Carnaval romain

22 November, Stadthalle

Mendelssohn: Elias

Mr. Arlberg, Mr. Hells, Hetta von Schmidt, Mrs. Stronck-Kappel

29 November

Weber: Jubel, Overture - Glinka: Waltz fantasy - Tchaikovsky: Waltz (excerpt from Suite No. 3) - Maillart: les Dragons de Villars, medley

6 December, Strasburg (Sängerhaus)

Furtwängler: Te Deum (Else Schuster, Margarethe Altmann-Kuntz, Hans Batteux, Julius Gless)

* The second part of this concert was conducted by Ernst Münch and included choral works (Pfitzner's "Columbus" and "der Blumen Rache", as well as Lieder by Wolf )

13 December

Marschner: der Vampyr, Overture - Delibes: Sylvia, Ballet - Liszt: Rapsodie No. 1 - Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, medley

16 December (3rd symphonic concert)

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Teresa Carreno) & Symphony No. 5

27 December

Beethoven: Leonore III Overture- Wagner: Tannhäuser, Venusberg music - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley

3 January

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture. - Moszkowski: Serenade - Chabrier: Espana - R. Strauss: der Rosenkavalier, waltzes

10 January

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro, Overture - Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 - Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, medley - Waldteufel: Fiesta

13 January (4th symphonic concert)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

17 January

Gade: Nachklänge von Ossian - Lalo: Rapsodie norvégienne - Moszkowski: maurische Phantasie - J. Strauss: Morgenblätter, opus 279

25 January

Beethoven: Trio opus 70 No. 1 (Hofmeier, de Ruyter, Corbach) - Brahms: Trio No. 2 opus 87 (Hofmeier, de Ruyter, Corbach) - Bach: Concerto for 2 pianos in C minor (Furtwängler, Hofmeier)

29 January

Furtwängler participated in the concert conducted by Siegfried Wagner, and accompanied Karl Erb at the piano (2 Sonnets of Petrarch by Liszt)

31 January

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Wagner: die Walküre, excerpts - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

* In February, he went to Hamburg with his friend Lilli Dieckmann and met Arthur Nikisch who gave two concerts on February 9 and 23

7 February

P. Lincke: Frau Luna, Overture - J. Gilbert: die keusche Suzanna, medley - P. Lincke: im Walzerrausch - Suppé: die flotte Bursche, Overture

10 February (5th symphonic concert)

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

*Julia Culp sang Adelaïde (Beethoven) and Ständchen (Schubert) accompanied at the piano by Furtwängler

14 February

Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Prelude ; Parsifal, Prelude & Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhine Journey - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 - Liszt: 2 Polonaises

21 February

Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla, Overture - S. Wagner: Sternengebot, Prelude from act 2 and?

24 February (6th symphonic concert)

A. Beer-Walbrunn: Sinfonia - Lieder by Beethoven and Wolf - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

* Furtwängler conducts choral works: Feuerreiter, Morgenhymnus by Wolf and elegischer Gesang by Beethoven

28 February

Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots, Overture - Bizet: Carmen, Suite No. 1 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer (Matrosenchor)

6 March

Weber: Preziosa, Overture - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - Svendsen: Polonaise - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley

10 March

Bellini: la Norma, Overture - Bizet: Carmen, medley - S. Jones: the Geisha, medley - L. Fall: die geschiedene Frau, waltz

13 March

Grammann: la Mélusine, Prelude - Smetana: Ma Vlast (la Moldau) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Puccini: Madame Butterfly, medley

20 March

Tchaikovsky: Mozartiana (Suite No. 4) - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2 - Liszt: Venezia e Napoli - Suppé: Dichter und Bauer

23 March (7th symphonic concert)

Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Marschner: Hans Heiling, Aria (Alfred Kase) - Pfitzner: der arme Heinrich, Aria (Alfred Kase) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

27 March

Suppé: Fatinitza, Overture - Fetras: die Dollarprinzessin, medley - S. Jones: Mimosa-waltz - J. Strauss: ein Künstlerleben

3 April

Méhul: Jean de Paris, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Capriccio italien - Offenbach: les contes d'Hoffmann, medley - J. Strauss: Lagunen-Walzer, opus 411

4 (rehearsal) & 5 April, Domkirche

a) Mozart: Requiem

Gertrud Stretten, Frieda Beckershaus, Henry Wormsbächer, Max Rothenbücher

b) Bach: Cantata BWV 116, "Komm, du süße Todesstunde"

Frieda Beckershaus, Henry Wormsbächer

Concert programme of 5 April 1912

20 April (8th symphonic concert)

Schillings: Oedipus Rex, Prelude - Brahms: Violin concerto (Carl Flesch) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

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Lübeck - Season 1912 - 1913

2 October

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Janid Szanto) - Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Overture - Godard: Berceuse

9 October

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - R. Volkmann: Serenade for strings - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2 - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley

12 October (1st symphonic concert)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 5 (Henri Marteau) - Vivaldi: Concerto for 3 violins (H. Marteau, J. Szanto, W. Novak) - R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

16 October

Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Walter Novak) - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - A. Rubinstein: Waltz-Caprice - M. Kaempfert: Rhapsody No. 2

19 October, first chamber music evening held in the Logensaal

Brahms: Sonata for 2 pianos in F minor (Furtwängler, Hofmeier) - Mozart: Trio in G major - Beethoven: Trio opus 70 No. 2 (Szanto, Corbach and ? )

23 October

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Bizet: l'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 - Donizetti: la figlia del reggimento, Overture

30 October

Weber: Preziosa, Overture - Sibelius: Finlandia - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - A. Conradi: Offenbachiana

6 November

Beethoven: Fidelio, Overture - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Bizet: Carmen, medley - Waldteufel: Sirenenzauber, waltz opus 154

9 November (2nd symphonic concert)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Marya Freund) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

13 November

Bellini: Norma, Overture - Lehar: der Graf von Luxemburg, waltz - Offenbach: les contes d'Hoffmann, Intermezzo - Wagner: Tannhäuser, medley

16 November, second chamber music evening

Brahms: Trio opus 8 No. 1 (Furtwängler, Szanto, Corbach) - Franck: Sonata for violin and piano (Furtwängler, Szanto) - Beethoven: Trio opus 1 No. 3 (Furtwängler, Szanto, Corbach)

20 November, Stadthalle

Schumann: der Paradies und die Peri

Mrs. Lammen-Lauprechts, von Ladiges and Schreiber, Paul Tödten

27 November

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Overture - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody - Oscar Strauss: ein Walzertraum, medley from the operetta

4 December

Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture - Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz - Grieg: Lyric suite - Sullivan: the Mikado, medley

7 December (3rd symphonic concert)

Reger: eine romantische Suite - Grieg: Piano concerto (Germaine Schnitzer ) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

11 December

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Wagner: die Walküre, excerpts - Lehar: der Graf von Luxemburg, medley

18 December

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Liszt: les Préludes - Delibes: Sylvia, Ballet - E. Koidel: fröhliche Weihnachten

1 January

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - Beethoven: Leonore (No.?) - Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann, medley

4 January (4th symphonic concert)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Szanto, Ulrich) - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15 January

J. Strauss: der Zigeunerbaron, Overture - Sidney Jones: the Geisha, medley - C. Morena: Telefunken, medley - Lehnhardt: die Ehrenwache, waltz

22 January

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - J. Strauss: Morgenblätter, opus 279

26 January, Wien (Wiener Konzert Verein) - Furtwängler's first concert in Vienna given in the great hall of the Musikverein (= MVS)

Beethoven: Leonore-Ouverture No. II & Concerto No. 3 (Georges Szell playing his own cadenzas) - 4 Lieder by Wolf: « In der Frühe, Denk's O Seele, Anakreons Grab, der Rattenfânger » (Rudolf Ritter) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

29 January

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture. - Delibes: Coppélia, Ballet - Bizet: Carmen, Suite

1 February (5th symphonic concert)

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 - Beethoven: Fidelio, Aria (Karl Erb) - Boehe: Tragische Ouvertüre - Liszt: Psalm No. 13 (Karl Erb)

5 February

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Franck: Psyché - Puccini: La Bohême, medley - J. Strauss: Gondellied, waltz

12 February

Wagner concert: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude; die Walküre: Wotan's farewell and Magic fire scene; Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

16 February

Hérold: Zampa, Overture - Nessler: der Trompeter von Säckingen, medley - A. Thomas: Mignon, Overture - J. Strauss: Künstlerleben

19 February

Auber: la Muette de Portici, Overture - Charpentier: Impressions d'Italie - Chabrier: Espana - Gounod: Faust, medley

26 February

Beethoven: Septet opus 20 for strings and wind instruments (with orchestration) - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

1 March (6th symphonic concert)

Schumann: Genoveva, Overture - Dukas: l'apprenti sorcier - Braunfels: Piano Concerto (Braunfels) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

9 March - Vienna (Wiener Konzert Verein - MVS)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Dukas: l'apprenti sorcier - Dvorak: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

12 March

Liszt: Polonaise - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - J. Strauss: Nordseebilder, waltz

19 March

Bach: Prelude and Fugue (orchestration by Abert) - Wagner: die Walküre, excerpts - Saint-Saëns: Samson and Dalila, medley - Sibelius: Waltz triste

* Furtwängler was to conduct at the Domkirche on March 20 and 21 the Brahms Requiem and Reger's cantata "O Haupt, voll Blut und Wunden". He fell ill and therefore was replaced by Hermann Abendroth who thus reappeared in Lübeck after a two-year period.

29 March (7th symphonic concert)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Alt-Rapsodie (Tilly Köhnen) - Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - 4 Lieder by Schubert, Schumann & R. Strauss (Tilly Köhnen and Wilhelm Furtwängler, piano)

2 April

Wagner: Siegfried, Waldweben & Parsifal, Graals Erzählung - J. Strauss: Streifzug durch die Operetten

9 April

Mozart: Così fan tutte, Overture - L. Sinigaglia: Suite piemontese - Liszt: Rhapsody No. 1 - E. Gillet: loin du Bal

16 April

Beethoven: Fidelio, Overture - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Waldteufel: Estudiantina, waltz

18 April

Brahms: Sonata in A major No. 2 op. 100 - Saint-Saëns: Sonata No. 1 opus 75 (Furtwängler, J. Szanto)

* Szanto played a sonata for violin alone by Bach and Melle Küller sang lieder by Schubert, Brahms and Wolf.

23 April

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & Tannhäuser, Overture - Verdi: La Traviata, medley

26 April (8th symphonic concert in the Stadthalle)

Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude & Karfreitagszauber - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Elisabeth Ohlhoff, Margarethe Küller, Richard Fischer, Arthur van Eweyk

30 April

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Overture - Brahms: 2 Hungarian dances - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, Overture - J. Strauss: der lustige Krieg, medley

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Lübeck - Season 1913 - 1914

1 October

Liszt: the Preludes - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - J. Strauss: der Zigeunerbaron

8 October

Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 - A. Thomas: Mignon, Overture - Waldteufel: auf Glückes Wogen, waltz

11 October (1st symphonic concert)

Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica - Liszt: Piano concerto No. 1 (Alice Ripper) - Weber: Oberon, Overture - Brahms: Hungarian dance (n°?)

15 October

Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Wagner: die Walküre, excerpts - R. Ellenberg: die Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig

22 October

Mozart: Serenade No. 13, eine kleine Nachtmusik - Wagner: Rienzi, Overture - J. Strauss: Hofballtänze, waltz

29 October

Wagner: Tannhäuser, Entrance of the Gods into the Wartburg and Venusberg music - Liszt: Rhapsody No. 1

5 November

Tchaikovsky: Serenade opus 26, Nutcracker (Suite) & Overture 1812 - Lehar: der Graf von Luxemburg, waltz

8 November (2nd symphonic concert)

Reger: 4 Tondichtungen nach Böcklin - Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro, aria of Suzanna (Hermine Bosetti) - 4 Lieder by Wolf and Pfitzner (Hermine Bosetti) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

12 November

J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley - Leo Fall: der liebe Augustin, medley - J. Gilbert: Wer kann dafür, waltz

19 November, Kolosseum

Haendel: Judas Maccabeus

Eva Lessmann, Marie Seret-van Eyken, Hermann Gürtler, Thomas Denijs

20 November, Neues Stadt-Theater

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Mr. Schuster, Mr. de Carmo, Mrs. Meisneret Lambach

26 November

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2 - Leoncavallo: Bajazzo, medley - Waldteufel: auf Glückes Wogen, waltz

3 December

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

6 December (3rd symphonic concert)

Grammann: Aventiure Sinfonie - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 (Jean Gérardy) - Haydn: Symphony No. 100

10 December

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Bizet: l'Arlésienne, Suite No. 1 - Wagner: die Walküre, Wotan's farewell and Magic fire scene

17 December

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 3 (Willy Freund) - J. Svendsen: norwegischer Künstlerkarneval - A. Thomas: Mignon, Overture

3 January (4th symphonic concert)

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Bach: Violin concerto No. 2 (Szanto) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

7 January

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture - Liszt: Orpheus - Lehar: Gold und Silber

14 January

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral march - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, medley - Leo Fall: die geschiedene Frau, medley

21 January

Concert Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture; Götterdämmerung, Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt & Parsifal, Prelude

28 January

Mozart: Titus, Overture - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Willy Freund) - S. Jones: the Geisha, medley - Waldteufel: Espana

31 January (5th symphonic concert)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Gesang der Parzen, for choir and orchestra - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Paul Tödten)

4 February

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Preislied - J. Strauss: Morgenblätter

18 February

Wieniawski: Fantaisie brillante sur des thèmes du Faust de Gounod - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Venusberg music & excerpts from Rheingold - Verdi: Rigoletto, medley

28 February (6th symphonic concert)

Hausegger: Wieland der Schmied - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Felix Berber) - Schumann: Symphony No. 1

4 March

Grammann: Aventiure sinfonie - Delibes: Sylvia, Ballet - Adam: le Postillon de Longjumeau, medley

11 March

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Verdi: Aida, medley

13 March, Hamburg (das Theater Orchester)

Brahms concert: Tragische Ouvertüre, Piano concerto No. 2 (Sandra Droucker) & Symphony No. 1

* Sandra Droucker was the piano teacher of the daughter of the emperor Wilhelm II

18 March

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Beethoven: Septuor opus 20 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley

25 March

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture - Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, Overture - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, medley - Thomas: Mignon, medley

28 March (7th symphonic concert)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Mozart: Titus, Aria (Ilona Durigo) - 5 Lieder by Schubert (Ilona Durigo & Furtwängler, piano)

1 April

Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Verdi: La Traviata, medley - J. Strauss: Künstlerleben

7 April (first sonata evening)

Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin opus 12 No. 1, 2 & 3; Sonata No. 5 opus 24 (Furtwängler, Szanto)

8 April

Nicolaï: eine feste Burg ist unser Gott, kirchliche Festouvertüre - Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus K 618 - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber

9 & 10 April, Domkirche

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Mr. Schmidt, Mrs. Fischer-Maresski & Hardoff)

14 April (second sonata evening)

Beethoven: Sonatas for violin and piano No. 4 op.23 and op. 30, No. 1 & 2 (Furtwängler, Szanto)

15 April

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Hungarian dance No. 5 - J. Strauss: der Zigeunerbaron, medley

20 April (Third sonata evening)

Beethoven: Sonatas for violin and piano opus 96 No. 10, Kreutzer, op. 47 No. 9 & op. 30 No. 6 (Furtwängler, Szanto)

22 April

Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers, Overture - Sullivan: the Mikado, medley - Lehar: der Graf von Luxemburg, waltz - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley

25 April (8th symphonic concert)

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Frédéric Lamond) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

28 April, Concert for the pensioners - programme unknown

29 April

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Overture - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Overture - Gounod: Faust, medley

3 July, München (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

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Lübeck - Season 1914 - 1915

30 September

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Leonore-Ouvertüre No. III - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

7 October

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Beethoven: Variations of string quartet opus 18 No. 5 - Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch

10 October (1st symphonic concert)

Wagner: Kaisermarsch - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

14 October

Mendelssohn: die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Singspiel in one act - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Szanto) - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt

21 October

Wagner concert: Tannhäuser, Overture; Lohengrin, prelude from act 3 and entrance of the Gods into the Walhalla

28 October

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture - Wagner: Siegfried (Schmiedelied) - Liszt: les Préludes

4 November

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude from act 3 - Pfeiffer: grosses Zapfenstreich

7 November (2nd symphonic concert)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & Violin concerto (Szanto) - R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

11 November

Beethoven: die Weihe des Hauses, Overture & Leonore-Ouvertüre No. III - Wagner: die Walküre, excerpts

15 & 16 November, Hamburg

Beethoven concerts: Leonore-Ouvertüre No. III, Symphony No. 7 & Piano concerto No. 1 (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp)

25 November

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro, Overture - Liszt: Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo - Keler-Bela: Soldatenlieder

2 December

Liszt: Grande Polonaise - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll; die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Preislied) & Lohengrin, Prelude

5 December (3rd symphonic concert)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Piano concerto (Ilse Fromm) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

9 December

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Overture - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, medley

13 December (Concert for the red Cross)

Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen opus 20 (Szanto)

16 December

Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture - Liszt: die Hunnenschlacht and?

30 December

Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail, Overture - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - R. Strauss: Kriegsmarsch

2 January (4th symphonic concert in the hall of the Kolosseum)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Szanto, Poppeck) - Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

6 January

Weber: Preziosa, Overture - Wagner: Rienzi, Overture - Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2

13 January

Liszt: die Hunnenschlacht - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4

17 January

Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus, medley - L. Kempter: Romance for violin, cello, viola and harp (soloists unknown)

20 January

Mozart: Così fan tutte, Overture - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, excerpts - Brahms: 3 Hungarian dances

30 January (5th symphonic concert)

Wagner: eine Faust-Ouvertüre - Beethoven: Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello (Furtwängler, Szanto, Corbach) - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3

3 February

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus & Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello (Furtwängler, Szanto, Corbach) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude from act 3

10 February

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, excerpts - Wagner: eine Faust Ouvertüre & die Walküre, Wotan's farewell and Magic fire scene

17 February

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Vieuxtemps: Ballade and Polonaise opus 38 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

24 February

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Vieuxtemps: Remise avec harpe

27 February (6th symphonic concert)

Goldmark: Sakuntala, Overture - Lieder by Mahler and Wolf (Lula Mysz-Gmeiner & Furtwängler, piano) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

10 March

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Wagner: der Rheingold, excerpts - Volkmann: Serenade for cello and orchestra (Emil Corbach)

13 March (7th symphonic concert)

Reger: vaterländische Ouvertüre - Dvorak: Violin concerto (Szanto) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17 March

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Liszt: les Préludes - Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch

23 March, Stadt-Theater

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Spilcker, Karl Günther, Eva van Bander)

24 March

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Venusberg music - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody (n° ?)

1 & 2 April

Bach: Matthew-Passion (soloists unknown)

10 April (8th symphonic concert)

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

14 April

Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 (excerpts) - Hubay: Czardas

16 April, Stadt-Theater

Nicolaï: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Erich Thiess, Max Spilcker, Hedwig Francillo-Kaufmann)

28 April

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Szanto) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 - Bach: Suite No. 2

Mannheim 1915-1920

At the beginning of 1915, Mannheim's Kapellmeister Arthur Bodanzky left to go to for America. The choice of a successor turned out to be rather controversial. Many of the best-known conductors of the day applied for the position. But the man the public in Mannheim really wanted was as their next Kapellmeister. was Arthur Nikisch. The last name on anybody's list was Wilhelm Furtwängler! Unlike Lübeck, Mannheim's main activity revolved around opera. The conductor- in- chief was in charge of the operatic repertoire, and the eight symphonic concerts performed at the Academy. Furtwängler now had some experience in the theater, but in truth he had conducted very few operas. On March 23 1915, a committee of five members went to Lübeck to listen to Furtwängler conduct Fidelio. He made such an impression on the jury that they invited him then and there to become Mannheim's new Kapellmeister. This is how the city inherited an almost unknown conductor.

During World War One, Carl Hagemann, the former "Intendant" of the Mannheim Opera between 1906 and 1910, was invited to resume his post from 1915. The second Hagemann era therefore coincided with the Furtwängler era. Mannheim welcomed the young conductor very enthusiastically. Bertha Geissmar, Furtwängler's future secretary, who came from an old Mannheim family, wrote in her memoirs: "The citizens of Mannheim used to consider their Kapellmeister as a sort of demi-god whose acts and deeds were the bread and butter of daily gossip". Furtwängler, who was by nature rather shy, accepted this popularity with some difficulty; in the beginning he used to hide behind Oskar Grofé (an close friend of Hugo Wolf's) who took the young man under his wing.

Furtwängler and his assistant Felix Lederer shared the repertoire: Furtwängler's name appeared on the playbills of the operas of Gluck, Mozart, Wagner, Bizet, Verdi; Lederer conducted Puccini or operas such as the Rosenkavalier. Other works that Furtwängler conducted for the first time himself or premiered in Mannheim included Violanta (Korngold), some of the operas of his teacher Max von Schillings (Mona Lisa) or those by Sekles or Klenau that have now almost completely disappeared from the repertoire. Fidelio was the first opera that Furtwängler conducted in Mannheim on September 7 1915 and Beethoven was ever-present in the programs of the Akademie concerts that were performed in the Musensaal and in the Niebelungensaal of the Rosengarten.

The excellent relationship between Furtwängler and Mannheim came to an abrupt end during the Season 1932-1933: on May 26 1933 a concert was to be given by the players of both the Berlin Philharmonic and the Theater-Orchester, in all 170 musicians. The Nazi authorities asked Furtwängler to replace his first violin Simon Goldberg because he was Jewish origins. Furtwängler categorically refused to do so. He gave up his honorary city citizenship, made a brief appearance at the reception after the concert and declared that he would never set foot again in Mannheim. Indeed, he didn't return until May 20, 1954 (twenty two years later), on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Akademie, when he conducted the Berlin orchestra in Beethoven's 5th and 6th symphonies.

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Season 1915 - 1916

The Mannheim theatre had its own troop, therefore only the casts of the Premieres are indicated

7 September

Beethoven: Fidelio

Mathieu Franck, Hans Bahling, Walter Günther-Braun, Hermine Rabl

Concert programme of 7 September 1915 - Click on image to enlarge

Programme of the opera performance of 7 September 1915

12 & 21 September

Marschner: Hans Heiling

Hermine Rabl, Hans Bahling, Dorothée Manski, Johanna Lippe

3 October

Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

Wilhelm Fenten, Minni Leopold, Walther Günther-Braun

10 October

Weber: der Freischütz

Joachim Kromer, Hugo Voisin, Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig, Else Tuschkau

19 October, first concert of the Akademie (Akademiekonzert)

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

* Julia Culp sang lieder by Schubert and Mahler, accompanied by Coenraad von Bos at the piano

1 November - Beethoven: Fidelio

7 November - Wagner: die Walküre

16 November, second concert of the Akademie

Vivaldi: Concerto for strings - Mozart: Violin concerto (No. 2 or 4) (Carl Flesch) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

28 November & 2 December

Schillings: Mona Lisa

Ernst Fischer, Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig, Wilhelm Fenten, Max Lipmann

5 December - Weber: der Freischütz

7 December, third concert of the Akademie

Bach: Piano concerto in D minor (Max Reger)

*Reger conducted the concert's second part, dedicated to his works (Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Mozart & eine vaterländische Ouvertüre)

9 December - Schillings: Mona Lisa

12 December - Wagner: Siegfried

17 December - Schillings: Mona Lisa

19 December - Wagner: Götterdämmerung

1 January - Wagner: die Walküre

11 January, fourth concert of the Akademie

Graener: Musik am Abend - Schumann: Piano concerto (Alfred Hoehn) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

20 January

Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

Karl Mang, Joachim Kromer, Mathieu Franck, Gertrud Runge, Johanna Lippe

23 January

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Walther Günther-Braun, Wilhelm Fenten, Hermine Rabl, Joachim Kromer

27 January - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

1 February, fifth concert of the Akademie

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Dvorak: Violin concerto (Gustav Havemann) - Berlioz: Symphony fantastique

3 February - Schillings: Mona Lisa

8 February - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

20 February

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Ernst Fischer, Mathieu Franck, Hermine Rabl, Max Lipmann, Wilhelm Fenten

22 February, sixth concert of the Akademie

Schumann: Genoveva, Overture - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Arthur Schnabel) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

25 February - Schillings: Mona Lisa

2 March - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

7 March - Mozart: Don Giovanni

9 March - Schillings: Mona Lisa

11, 12, 15 & 19 March

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen (soloists unknown)

28 March, eighth concert of the Akademie

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung & eine Alpensinfonie

* the orchestra (das Hoftheaterorchester) counted 100 musicians

An "unknown" chapter:
Furtwängler in Lille - 1916

Furtwängler always claimed that he had refused to give concerts (during World War II) in Nazi-occupied countries. (It is indeed true that the European tours with the Berlin Philharmonic were conducted by Hermann Abendroth, Eugen Jochum, Clemens Krauss and Hans Knappertsbusch.) But in strictly historical terms this is not quite true.. The Opera of Lille - the city was then occupied by the German Army - had two distinguished visiting conductors - Fritz Reiner and... Wilhelm Furtwängler.

"In Autumn 1914 Lille was attacked by the Germans. The town had been previously declared open and at the end of summer its garrison was a miserable force of less of three thousand men. At the beginning of October the German troops besieged the town. After ten days of shelling, the French garrison surrendered on October 12: two hundred civilians had lost their lives: three hundred had been wounded, and two hundred soldiers were dead. The city was in ruins with fifteen hundred buildings destroyed. The Opera, basically a building site, survived without a scratch. Lille was now occupied by the Germans. It was a hard, difficult and brutal occupation, and left many scars in the collective memory." (J.M. Duhamel:"Lille, un opéra dans la ville." - Editions la Voix du Nord, 2003)

A brief historical note about Lille's Opera (or its successive opera houses). A "Comédie" opened in 1702, and for the next eighty years it was the center of the city's musical and theatrical activity. After 1781, it was decided to build a "Grand Théâtre" in the style of Paris' Salle Favart: the architect Michel Lequeux was in charge of the building site (he was murdered at the age of 31 years in 1786 by a laborer on the building site). The Grand Théâtre opened on April 16, 1787 but on April 6, 1903, it was destroyed by fire. It was immediately decided to replace it. A hundred days later, on November 30, the (temporary) Théâtre Sébastopol was put up. In 1907, an official competition was opened to architects to submit their plans for a new opera - Louis-Marie Cordonnier's plan was accepted. The opening should have taken place in Autumn 1914... when World war I broke out. But on August 3 Germany declared war to France, the following day the German troops invaded Belgium, and on 24 August German armies invaded Northern France, pushing the allied front lines back on a general front line that ran from Pas-de-Calais to Alsace, and included Champagne and Lorraine. For the remainder of the war, Lille remained inside the German occupation zone.

The "Deutsches Theater"

After they had settled down into Lille, the Germans became interested in the new, yet unfinished building. On November 8 1915, the Kommandantur asked the Mayor of Lille Charles Delesalle to put the Grand Théâtre back in working order. The mayor refused to finish the building or to obey German orders. So, at the beginning of December, the Germans requisitioned the theater and the soldiers themselves put it back to working order. The opening took place on December 25 with a performance of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Aulis, played by a German operatic troupe. The following Spring the building was finished and the official opening took place on June 6, 1916 with a gala concert. For two years, several German troupes (from the opera houses of Chemnitz, Stuttgart, Lübeck, Schwerin, Karlsruhe, Munich, Hamburg, Augsburg, Bremen, Berlin, etc.) came to Lille, and performed the entire German repertoire (theater and opera). On May 19, the tenor Richard Tauber sang in Lille. In winter 1916 mainly Wagner was on the program (Tannhäuser, The Flying Vessel, Lohengrin, Parsifal). In May 1917 they played Nozze di Figaro, in November the Ring, in December Tristan, and so on. Naturally, these performances were German audiences only, mainly soldiers. This is why it was nicknamed "Théâtre aux Armées " - (but from time to time the nurses were allowed in).

On April 29 1916, Fritz Reiner came from the Semperoper of Dresden and conducted a performance of Carmen with the singer Agnès Wedekind-Klebe in the title-role and Fritz Soot as Don José. The local press said this was already the ninety ninth performance at the Deutsches Theater, which suggests that operatic activity was quite important... But the press also noted that

"at the same time, the local population was battling against the atrocities of the occupant. While Beethoven and Offenbach were performed in the Opera, the citizens were forced to flee their city. At Easter 1916 ten thousand men and women were arrested and deported to Belgium and Germany. These deportations continued until Spring 1918." (J.M. Duhamel, Op. cit.)

So this was the setting for Wilhelm Furwängler's visit to Lille in March 1916 with the Mannheim Opera troupe. Another conductor preceded him in February-March: Steinbach (but the press never mentioned his Christian name. So it remains a mystery whether it was the famous Fritz Steinbach of Cologne or his brother who also was a conductor.)

To know more about Furtwängler's activity in Lille, we have to delve into the archives of the local German paper - the Liller Kriegszeitung (LKZ). It appears that he conducted Beethoven's Fidelio (but the date remains uncertain: it was probably between April 1 and 3) and a symphony concert on April 6. According to other sources (in particular a thesis by a student at Lille University - Olivier Denoyelle), he also conducted the Contes d'Hoffmann and the Fledermaus, but that remains to be confirmed. In fact, in issue No. 86 of the LKZ, dated April 13 (the paper appeared twice a week), it's written that the Contes d'Hoffmann were followed by the Fledermaus under the Kapellmeister Otto Urach (who, according to issue No: 84 dated April 7, conducted another performance of the Contes). Did Furtwängler conduct one or more performances without the press even mentioning it? It could be but we don't know for certain. On the other hand, the LKZ issue No. 83 dated April 4 says:

"This Fidelio was one of the best performances we've ever heard and saw in Lille. It was conducted by the energetic and passionate Hofkapellmeister of Mannheim, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Miss Sophie Wolf of Cologne sung Leonore and Rudolf Ritter of Stuttgart gave us great joy in the role of Florestan. Among others are worth to be mentioned also Karl Amster as Fernando, Alfons Schützendorf (Pizzaro), Otto Helgers (Rocco), Else Jülich (Marcellina), Hans Bollmann (Jacquino). The audience left the theater knowing that it had listened to one of the deepest manifestations of the German soul ; with noisy and great applause the audience thanked the artists for giving them such a memorable experience."

As for the symphony concert, it took place on Thursday April 6 and was a typical "Furtwänglerian" program, entirely devoted to Beethoven: Egmont overture, violin concerto with Félix Berber and Fifth Symphony. The LKZ noted briefly (No. 85 of April 10): "(...) The majesty of the music permeated this magnificent performance."

History repeated itself at the dawn of World War II:

"On May 10 1940, German troops entered Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Lille was bombed on May 18 and 26. The next day, the town was encircled. Once again a lightening invasion had devastated the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. France has again fallen into a 'coma in the Summer of 1940. After twenty years, History is again repeating itself. As in 1914, the German occupation is going to be particularly brutal... and once again the Nazis want to force theaters to re-open as quickly as possible. This time the decision is political and comes from Goebbels in Berlin. A realnuine German Theater is once again to be set up in Lille, the only one of this kind in France, sharing this "privilege" with the operas of Oslo and The Hague. The principles of twenty years ago are once again to be imposed: German musicians, entire opera troops and great symphonic orchestras are invited to come. On January 13 1941 the Opera of Cologne gives a performance of Le Nozze di Figaro but the first real Season of the Deutsches Theater of Lille is inaugurated on May 10 with a concert performance of Beethoven's music for Egmont. At the beginning of 1942, the disaster that has already hit France's Jews reaches cities like Lille and cultural life. From July onwards, all Jews in Lille have to wear the Star of David. On September 11, five hundred and twenty people are arrested in the "départements " of the North and of Pas-de-Calais and rounded up in Lille. One week later, they are deported to Auschwitz. From 1944 on, there are rumors that the Deutsches Theater will be transferred to Nancy. In the following weeks, the main part of the troupe is dissolved. On September 3, British troops enter Lille as liberators. On September 26, the Grand Théâtre is handed back to the city of Lille with a performance of French music (Honegger, Dukas, Saint-Saëns)." J.M. Duhamel, op. cit.)

14 April - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

23 April

Wagner: Parsifal

Ernst Fischer, Mathieu Franck, Wilhelm Fenten, Hans Bahling, Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig

2 & 5 May

Klenau: Sulamith / Klein Idas Blumen

Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig, Ernst Fischer (Sulamith) - Solveig Oberwald, Else Zimmermann, Anna Heuer (Klein Idas Blumen)

7 May - Wagner: Parsifal

9 & 15 May - Klenau: Sulamith and Klein Idas Blumen

24 May

Pfitzner: der arme Heinrich

Walther Günther-Braun, Hans Bahling, Hermine Rabl, Else Tuschkau

28 May - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

1 June - Wagner: Parsifal

4 June - Wagner: die Walküre

16 June - Pfitzner: der arme Heinrich

18 June - Beethoven: Fidelio

22 June - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

26 June - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

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Season 1916 - 1917

1 September - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

3 September

Bizet: Carmen

Hertha Russ, Walther Günther-Braun, Heinrich Tiemer, Karl Mang

17 September - Wagner: die Walküre

21 September - Bizet: Carmen

1 October

Wagner: Tannhäuser

Wilhelm Fenten, Walther Günther-Braun, Hans Bahling, Joachim Kromer, Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig

10 October, first concert of the Akademie

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Schubert: die Allmacht D 875a (Elena Gerhardt) & Symphony No. 9

* Elena Gerhardt sang five Schubert Lieder accompanied at the piano by Alfred Rosenstein

13 October - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

14 October - Weber: der Freischütz

17 October - Bizet: Carmen

24 October - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

25 October

Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail

Hugo Voisin, Karl Mang, Irene Eden, Max Lipmann

26 October

J. Strauss: die Fledermaus

Walther Günther-Braun, Hertha Russ, Joachim Kromer, Johanna Lippe, Max Lipmann

29 October - Weber: der Freischütz

31 October, second concert of the Akademie

Reger: eine romantische Suite - Brahms: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - Liszt: Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo

7 November - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail

12 November, Matinee (programme unknown)

12 November

Verdi: Aida

Mathieu Franck, Johanna Lippe, Walther Günther-Braun, Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig

14 November - Weber: der Freischütz

21 November, third concert of the Akademie

Mahler: das Lied von der Erde (Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann, Max Lippmann) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

* It was Furtwängler's one and only performance of the Lied von der Erde

26 November - Wagner: die Walküre

3 December - Bizet: Carmen

6 December - Klenau: Klein Idas Blumen

12 December, fourth concert of the Akademie

Klenau: Dante-Sinfonie (Symphonische Fantasie) - Wolf: Italienische Serenade - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche & Burleske (Wera Schapira) - Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy for piano (Wera Schapira)

15 December - Klenau: Klein Idas Blumen

17 December - Verdi: Aida

19 December

Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

Hans Godeck, Hugo Voisin, Lisbeth Korst-Ulbrig, Walther Günther-Braun

21 December - Klenau: Klein Idas Blumen

31 December - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus

3 January - Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

* Furtwängler conducted a symphonic concert in Travemünde (which is Lübeck's sea resort) in 1917 with the « Kurorchester »: date and programme are unknown.

9 January, fifth concert of the Akademie

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Mozart: Titus, Aria (Sigrid Onegin) - Schumann: Symphony No. 4

* Onegin sang five Schumann lieder accompanied by Alfred Rosenstein at the piano

14 January

Strauss: Salomé

Walther Günther-Braun, Johanna Lippe, Else Tuschkau, Hans Bahling, Max Lipmann

16 January - Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

17 January, concert

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (R. Strauss conducted the second part of the concert)

18 February - Wagner: Tannhäuser

25 February - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus

27 February - Strauss: Salomé

4 March - Wagner: Siegfried

6 March, seventh concert of the Akademie

Hausegger: Wieland der Schmied - Bruch: Scottish Fantasy (Hugo Birkigt) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

14 March - Strauss: Salomé

20 March, eighth concert of the Akademie

Beethoven concert: Coriolan, Overture ; Piano concerto No. 4 (Max Pauer) & Symphony No. 3

23 March - Bizet: Carmen

24 March - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus

1 April - Beethoven: Fidelio

4 April - Weber: der Freischütz

8 April - Wagner: Parsifal

11 April - Beethoven: Fidelio

13 April - Wagner: der Rheingold

15 April - Wagner: die Walkürie

24 & 27 April

Mozart: die Zauberflöte

Wilhelm Fenten, Max Lipmann, Hugo Voisin, Hans Bahling, Irene Eden

29 April - Wagner: Siegfried

2 May - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

4 May - Beethoven: Fidelio

6 May - Weber: der Freischütz

12 May - J. Strauss: die Fledermaus

17 May - Wagner: Parsifal

23 May - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

27 May - Wagner: Tannhäuser

28 May - Wagner: Parsifal

30 May - Beethoven: Fidelio

3 June - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

7 June - Verdi: Aida

17 June - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

20 June

Korngold: Violanta

Korngold: Ring des Polyktrates

Hans Bahling, Paula Windheuser, Max Lipmann, Minni Leopold, Johanna Lippe (Violanta) - Arthur Corfield, Else Tuschkau, Irene Eden, Joachim Kromer (Ring des Polykrates)

24 June - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

27 June - Korngold: Violanta / Ring des Polykrates

29 June - Wagner: der Rheingold

1 July - Wagner: die Walküre

4 July - Korngold: Violanta / Ring des Polykrates

15 July - Wagner: Götterdämmerung

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Season 1917 - 1918

2 September - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

13, 15, 18 & 21 September (at 3 pm) Baden-Baden (Neue Kurhausbühne)

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

a) der Rheingold: Hans Bahling, Fritz von der Heydt, Walther Günther-Braun, Wilhelm Fenten, Dorothée Manski, Johanna Lippe, Else Tuschkau

b) die Walküre: Hans Bahling, Mathieu Franck, Dorothée Manscki, Johanna Lippe, Paula Windheuser

c) Siegfried: Walther Günther-Braun, Hans Bahling, Mathieu Franck, Johanna Lippe, Else Tuschkau

d) Götterdämmerung: Walther Günther-Braun, Dorothée Manski, Johanna Lippe, Paula Windheuser, Else Tuschkau

* On September 15 the Rheinische Musik-und Theater-Zeitung published an article by Furtwängler called « das deutsche Musikleben » (the German musical life)

28, 30 September, 4 & 7 October, Mannheim

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

a) der Rheingold: Hans Bahling, Fritz von der Heydt, Walther Günther-Braun, Johanna Lippe

b) die Walküre: Walther Günther-Braun, Mathieu Franck, Hans Bahling, Dorothée Manski, Johanna Lippe

c) Siegfried: Walther Günther-Braun, Max Felmy, Hans Bahling, Joachim Kromer, Viktoria Hoffmann-Brewer, Paula Windheuser

d) Götterdämmerung: Walther Günther-Braun, Wilhelm Fenten, Paula Windheuser, Dorothée Manski

2 October

He conducts the Prelude of the Meistersinger von Nürnberg during the celebrations for Hindenburg's seventieth anniversary

12 October, Charity concert in the Musensaal of the Rosengarten (Kriegsanleihe zu Gunsten der Wohlfahrtskassen des Allgemeinen Deutschen Musikverbandes und des deutschen Orchesterbundes ausgeführt vom Grossen Hoftheaterorchester)

J.Strauss: Kaiserwalzer, Geschichte der Wienerwald; an der schönen blauen Donau - Beethoven & Schubert: German dances- Brahms: Hungarian dance- Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

14 October

Vaterländischer Vortrag zur Feier des Kriegsanleihe-Nationaltages: Furtwängler conducts Weber's overture Jubel in the Nibelungensaal of the Rosengarten. After a speech held by the Mayor of Mannheim, the play « Die rechte Hand » was premiered with Alexander Kökert, Julie Sanden, Else de Lank, Fritz Odemar and Josef Renkert.

16 October, first concert of the Akademie

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Felix Berber) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 October - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

2 November

Sekles: Scheherazade

Hans Bahling, Wilhelm Fenten, Dorothée Manscki, Walther Günther-Braun, Joachim Kromer

6 November, second concert of the Akademie

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Braunfels: 3 chinesische Gesänge (Eva Bruhn ) - Schubert: 4 Lieder «Verklärung, an den Mond, an eine Quelle, im Frühling» (Eva Bruhn & Furtwängler, piano)

9 November - Sekles: Scheherazade

14 November - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

15 November - Sekles: Scheherazade

17 November, concert

Hubay: Czardas - Goldmark: Violin Concerto (Ibolyka Gyarfas) - Liszt: Mazeppa - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

18 November - Weber: der Freischütz

25 November - Bizet: Carmen

27 November, third concert of the Akademie

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Vera Schapira) - Strauss: Don Quixote (Carl Müller, cello)

* W. von Baussnern conducts his second symphony in the second half of the concert (at the piano, Hans Weisbach)

28 November - Sekles: Scheherazade

7 December - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

8 December,

Works by Pfitzner, Furtwängler at the piano (details unknown)

11 December, fourth concert of the Akademie

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch)

* B. Sekles conducts his symphonic poem die Temperamente.

14 December, Berlin (hall of the Philharmonic) - Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester = BPO (for the first time)

Wagner: excerpts from Tannhäuser, Parsifal, die Meistersinger von Nürnberg & die Walküre - Strauss: Don Juan; 3 Lieder & excerpts from Feuersnot (Heinrich Hensel, Fritz Feinhals)

21 December - Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos

1 January - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

6 January - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

7 January, fifth concert of the Akademie

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Hugo Birkigt, Max Fühler) - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

* On January 17, Abendroth conducted in Essen the Furtwängler's Te Deum. The composer and Ida Boy-Ed attended the concert. She inscribed in Abendroth's guest book : «Now I know that Art is tragic.»

20 January - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

25 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore-Ouvertüre No. III - Schumann: Piano Concerto (Max Pauer) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

29 January, sixth concert of the Akademie

Szell: Variationen über ein eigenes Thema - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

12 February - Sekles: Scheherazade

15 February - Wagner: der Rheingold

17 February - Wagner: die Walküre

19 February, Seventh concert of the Akademie

Liszt: Dante, Symphony after the Divina Commedia - Pfitzner: Herr Oluf (Waldemar Stägemann) - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Waldemar Stägemann) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

22 February - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

24 February - Wagner: Siegfried

* The paper der Tag, published an article by Furtwängler: « Anmerkungen zu Beethovens Musik » (Remarks on the music of Beethoven)

8 March, Berlin - BPO (Beethoven-Saal)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Piano concerto No. 5 (Edwin Fischer) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

10 March - Bizet: Carmen

12 March, Eighth concert of the Akademie

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 9 (Walter Rehberg) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

13 March - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

17 March - Weber: der Freischütz

31 March - Wagner: Parsifal

4 April

Klenau: Kjartan und Gudrun

Hans Bahling, Johanna Lippe, Wilhelm Fenten, Walther Günther-Braun

7 April - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

11 April - Klenau: Kjartan und Gudrun

12 April, extra concert of the Akademie

Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Edwin Fischer) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

28 April - Wagner: Siegfried

5 May - Klenau: Kjartan und Gudrun

7 May - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

16 May - Pfitzner: der arme Heinrich

23 May

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Max Felmy, Karl Mang, Irene Eden, Wilhelm Fenten

28 May - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail

30 May - Bizet: Carmen

2 June - Weber: der Freischütz

23 June - Wagner: die Walküre

25 June - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

27 June - Klenau: Kjartan und Gudrun

30 June - Beethoven: Fidelio

2 July - Pfitzner: der arme Heinrich

7 July - Weber: der Freischütz

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Season 1918 - 1919

6 September - Rossini: il barbiere di Siviglia

15 September - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

17 September - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

22 September - Beethoven: Fidelio

29 September

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Hans Bahling, Wilhelm Fenten, Max Lipmann, Dorothée Manski)

3 October, Ludwigshafen (Mannheimer Hoftheater Orchester)

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Weber: der Freischütz, Agathe's aria (Delia Reinhardt) - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Mahler: 3 Lieder (Delia Reinhardt) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

4 October - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail

6 October - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

7 October

Works by Pfitzner with Furtwängler at the piano (details unknown)

9 October - Weber: der Freischütz

15 October, first concert of the Akademie

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 2 or 4 (Eva Bernstein) - Strauss: Don Juan

1 November, Berlin - BPO

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Carl Friedberg) & Symphony No. 5

5 November, second concert of the Akademie

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Beethoven - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 3 (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

6 November - Rossini: il barbiere di Siviglia

15 November, Frankfurt (Frankfurter-Museumsgesellschaft Orchester = FMO)

Strauss: Don Juan - Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 2 (Leonid Kreutzer) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* The concerts were performed in the "Grosser Saal des Saalbaues"

17 November, Frankfurt - FMO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Grieg: Piano concerto (Leonid Kreutzer) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

* The third concert of the Akademie was planned for November 19: due to the political events it was cancelled and planned for December 10

21 November - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

30 November, Vienna (Grosser Konzerthaus-Saal) - Wiener Tonkünstler Orchester = WTO

Strauss: Don Juan - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Hans Duhan) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

10 December, third concert of the Akademie

Tiessen: Liebesgesang und Rondo - Gluck: Alceste, Aria (Sigrid Onegin) - Berlioz: 3 Arias (Sigrid Onegin) - Schumann: Symphony No. 1

12 December - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

15 December - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

17 December

Pfitzner: Christelflein (Else Tuschkau, Mathieu Franck, Joachim Kromer, Julie Sanden)

19 December - Beethoven: Fidelio

22 December - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

25 December - Bizet: Carmen

* A concert was planned in Vienna on December 28, with Brahms' Tragic Overture and Fourth symphony as well as Hektors Bestattung by Sigwart with Ludwig Wüllner. It was cancelled.

29 December - Pfitzner: Christelflein

5 January

Sekles: Herr Dandolo

Viktoria Hoffmann-Brewer, Irene Eden, Max Lipmann, Wilhelm Fenten, Joachim Kromer

7 January, fourth concert of the Akademie

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Brahms: Double Concerto (H. Birkigt, C.. Müller) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

8 January - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

11 January - Pfitzner: Christelflein

17 January, Frankfurt - FMO

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Dvorak: Cello concerto (Hans Bottermund) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Karl Ziegler)

18 January - Pfitzner: Christelflein

22 January, Munich (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Beethoven: Leonore-Ouvertüre Nr. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

26 January - Pfitzner: Christelflein

28 January, fifth concert of the Akademie

Schreker: Vorspiel zu einem Drama ("die Gezeichneten") - Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 2 (Leonid Kreutzer) - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Elfriede Müller)

2 February - Bizet: Carmen

8 February, concert

Wagner: eine Faust-Ouvertüre - Liszt: Hugarian Fantasy for piano and orchestra (Lilli Koppel) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Schumann: Piano concerto (Lilli Koppel)

14 February - Sekles: Herr Dandolo

16 February - Mozart: die Zauberflöte

18 February, sixth concert of the Akademie

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Eugen d'Albert: Cello concerto (Paul Grümmer) - Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht - Weber: Oberon, Overture

21 February, Frankfurt - FMO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Spohr: Violin concerto No. 8 (Karl Klinger) - Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

27 February, second concert of the Philharmonischer Verein in the Musensaal at the Rosengarten

Schubert: die Winterreise (Helge Lindberg and Furtwängler, piano)

* It is Furtwängler's one and only performance of this work

28 February - Weber: der Freischütz

5 March, seventh concert of the Akademie

Friedrich Reisch: Symphony in E major (UA) - Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - Lieder by Berlioz, Wolf and Schillings (Anna Kämpfert)

22 March, Vienna (Konzerthaus, Grosser Saal) - WTO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

1 April, eighth concert of the Akademie

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Elfriede Müller, Johanna Lippe, Max Lippmann, Wilhelm Fenten

3 April

Beethoven: Fidelio

9 April, Munich (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

16 April

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

Johanna Lippe, Elfriede Müller, Else Tuschkau

21 April - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

22 April - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

29 April, Vienna (Grosser Konzerthaus-Saal) - WTO (Ausserordentlisches Konzert / extra concert)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Bertha Kiurina, Hermine Kittel, Georg Maikl, Richard Mayr & Sängerbund "Dreizehnlinden")

11 May - Beethoven: Fidelio

13 May - Weber: der Freischütz

15 May - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

25 May - Bizet: Carmen

2 June, Darmstadt (hessisches Landestheater-Orchester)

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto No. 1 (Jasha Spiwakovski) & Symphony No. 5

6 June - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

9 June - Wagner: Parsifal

15 June - Verdi : Aida

* According to a magnificent printed programme, Furtwängler was supposed to conduct all concerts at the Vienna Beethoven Festival, between June 14 and 24. We don't know why he was replaced by Felix Weingartner and Oskar Fried.

19 June

Verdi: Othello

Walther Günther-Braun, Hans Bahling, Friedrich Bartling, Johanna Lippe, D. Manski

21 June - Vienna, MVS (WTO)

Beethoven : Symphonies No. 6 & 5

29 June - Wagner: die Walküre

2 July

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

Heinrich Tiemer, Elfriede Müller, Else Tuschkau, Wilhelm Fenten

8 July - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail

9 July - Verdi: Otello

13 July - Beethoven: Fidelio

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Season 1919 - 1920

4 September - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

5 September - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

7 September - Bizet: Carmen

10 September

Beethoven: Egmont (Lene Blankenfeld, Fritz Alberti, Georg Köhler, Hans Godeck, Klara von Mühlen, Julie Sanden)

11 September - Beethoven: Fidelio

18 September - Beethoven: Egmont

19 September - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

23 September - Weber: der Freischütz

2 October - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

5 October

Tchaikovsky: Jolanthe (Wilhelm Fenten, Heinrich Tiemer, Hans Bahling, Else Tuschkau, Johanna Lippe)

Weber: Abu Hassan (Joseph Renkert, Lene Blankenfeld, Paul Kuhn, Gretel Neumann, Karl Mang)

7 October, first concert of the Akademie

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro (Endlich naht sich die Stunde") (Gretel Stückgold) - Strauss: Lieder (Winterreise, Freundliche Vision, Wiegenlied") (Gretel Stückgold)

8 October - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

16 October, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Concert Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

24 October - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

26 October - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

28 October, second concert of the Akademie

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Arthur Schnabel) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

29 October - Tchaikovsky: Jolanthe & Weber: Abu Hassan

4 November, Vienna - das Sinfonie-Orchester (MVS)

Beethoven: Egmont (incidental music) (Ludwig Wüllner) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

6 November, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 2 (Wera Schapira) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

* Furtwängler couldn't conduct the third concert of the Akademie on November 18 and was replaced by Felix Lederer

27 November, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Erna Rubinstein) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

29 November, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Hermine Kittel et Frauenchor des Sängerbundes, Dreizehnlinden")

9 December, fourth concert of the Akademie

Georg Schumann: im Ringen um ein Ideal, symphonic poem - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

10 December - Mozart: die Entfürung aus dem Serail

12 December, Frankfurt - FMO

Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Eugen d'Albert) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

14 December - Beethoven: Fidelio

16 December - Tchaikovsky: Jolanthe & Weber: Abu Hassan

19 December - Wagner: Siegfried

21 December - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

23 December - Pfitzner: Christelflein

28 December - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

29 December - Pfitzner: Christelflein

8 January, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III

11 January - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

12 January, Vienna - WTO

Brahms: Piano concerto No. I (Edwin Fischer) - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 9 (Edwin Fischer)

13 January, fifth concert of the Akademie

S. von Hausegger: Symphonische Variationen - Brahms: Violin concerto (Hugo Birkigt) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Max Lippmann)

22 January - Wagner: die Walküre

25 January - Weber: der Freischütz

27 January, sixth concert of the Akademie

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Wagner: 5 Wesendonck-Lieder (Delia Reinhardt & Furtwängler, piano) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

5 February, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Hermann Gallos)

* Furtwängler having fallen ill, the Mahler's Third planned on February 7 in Vienna with Hermine Kittel, was cancelled

13 February, Berlin (Philharmonic Hall) - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer)

20 February - Pfitzner: Christelflein

* The concerts of February 26 & 28 (Mahler Third with Hermine Kittel) in Vienna were cancelled once more because of Furtwängler's illness

2 March, seventh concert of the Akademie

Dvorak: Husitska, Overture - Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

23 March, eighth concert of the Akademie

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elfriede Müller, Johanna Lippe, Max Lipmann, Wilhelm Fenten )

28 March

Pfitzner: Palestrina (Mathieu Franck, Heinrich Tiemer, Paul Kuhn, Hans Bahling, Else Tuschkau, Minny Leopold)

2 April, Berlin (Symphonie-Konzert der Staatsopernkapelle = BSOK)

Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude - Bach: Suite No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

3 April, Berlin - BSOK (Ninth symphonic concert of the Kapelle)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso (No. ?) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Ethel Hansa, Marie Götze, Joseph Mann, Karl Armster)

5 April - Pfitzner: Palestrina

10 April, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Hermine Kittel)

* it is the concert planned on February 7 and 28...

17 April, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Beethoven: Leonore II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

22 April, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht (version 1917) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

28 & 29 April, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Klara Musil, Hermine Kittel, Georg Maikl, Josef von Manowarda)

4 May, Berlin - BSOK

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Hugo Kaun: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III

7 May - Pfitzner: Palestrina

9 May - Bizet: Carmen

11 May - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

19 May - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail

20 May - Verdi: Aida

24 May - Pfitzner: Palestrina

26 May - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer

2 June - Pfitzner: Palestrina

* Signale für die musikalische Welt (June 22 1920) announces that Furtwängler was to conduct the Pfälzisches Landesorchester: Strauss: Don Juan and an aria from Ariadne auf Naxos sang by Irene Eden; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5... Date and place of the concert are unknown.

8 June, Vienna, Konzerthaus Grosser Saal - WTO

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Hermine Kittel)

10 June, Vienna - WTO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Foerstel, Kittel, Maikl, Mayr)

19 June - Pfitzner: Palestrina

30 June - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail (last performance in Mannheim)

* Furtwängler conducted in Mannheim 39 operas and 41 symphonic concerts. In his book (« eine kritische Biographie »), Wessling mistakenly talks about 34 operas and ... three times more concerts!

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Season 1920 - 1921

24 & 26 September, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, H. Lange, P. Naumann) - Strauss: der Bürger als Edelmann - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

1 October(*), Berlin - BSOK

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, H. de Vries, Robert Zeiler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* These concerts were held at noon and 7.30 p.m.

Concerts in Scandinavia

7 October, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Haendel: Concerto Grosso - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

10 October, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schubert: Rosamunde, Interlude & Symphony No. 9

14 October, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

17 October, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Berwald: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

22 October, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Haendel: Concerto for strings and wind instruments in F major - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 5 (Carl Flesch) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

27 October, Berlin - BSOK

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

3 & 4 November, Vienna, MVS - WTO

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12 November, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Beethoven Concert: Great Fugue, Fantasy for piano and choir (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) & Symphony No. 5

19 November, Berlin - BSOK

Haendel: Concerto Grosso (No.? - orchestration by G. Kogel) - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Emmy Beckmann-Bettendorf, Margarethe Arndt-Ober)

25 & 27 November, Vienna - WTO

Mozart: Violin concerto No. 4 (Adolf Busch) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

1 & 2 December, Vienna - WTO

Concerts Beethoven: Fantasy for piano and choir (Franz Schmidt) & Symphony No. 3

8 December, Berlin - BSOK

Concert Beethoven: Great Fugue (Orchestration by F. Mottl), Piano concerto No. 4 (Edwin Fischer) & Symphony No. 5

Concerts in Scandinavia

12 December, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen.(in the Auditorium)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - Mozart: Sinfonie concertante KV 364

16 December, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Holmgren, Kalmodin-Lindgren, Ralf, Johanson)

19 December, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Concert Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. I, Violin concerto (Mikael Press) & Symphony No. 7

26 December, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Weber: Oberon, Overture - A. Hallen: The Island of the Death - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, excerpts - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prélude; Tannhäuser, Venusberg music & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

30 December, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

T. Rangström: Divertimento elegiaco - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Einar Ralf)

2 January, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Haydn: Symphony No. I00 - Oskar Lindberg: Fran de stora skogarne - Natanael Berg: Violin concerto (Tobias Wilhelmi) - Beethoven: Egmont, Overture

6 January, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen (in the Auditorium)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Josef Wolfsthal, Karl Achatz) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

12 January, Berlin - BSOK

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Strauss: der Bürger als Edelmann - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Beethoven: Fidelio, Florestan's Aria (Karl Erb) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Karl Erb & Bruno-Kittel choir)

21 January, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande - Weber: der Freischütz, Aria (Karl Erb) - Schubert: 5 Lieder (Karl Erb & Furtwängler, piano) & Symphony No. 9

23 January, Frankfurt am Main - FMO (das Opernhaus- und Museums-Orchester)

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

* The concerts were held in the great hall of the Saalbau (Grosser Saal des Saalbaues)

26 January, Munich (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Reichel, Stammann) - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

2 & 3 February, Vienna - WTO

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain, Overture - Strauss: der Bürger als Edelmann - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

9 February, Berlin - BSOK

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schillings: Violin concerto (Leopold Premyslav) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

16 February, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Brahms: Sonata No. 2 opus 100 (Hans Lange, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Erzherzogstrio op. 97 No. 7 (H. Lange, Furtwängler, W. Lange)

18 & 20 February, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Franck: Symphonic variations (Egon Petri) - Liszt: Totentanz (Egon Petri) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

25 February, Berlin - BSOK

Schumann: Genoveva, Overture - Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

28 February, Lübeck (Theater Orchester)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

4 & 6 March, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Erdmann: Symphony in one movement - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

11 March, Berlin - BSOK

Dvorak: Husitska - Hausegger: Aufklänge, Variationen über ein Kinderlied - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

16 & 17 March, Vienna - WTO

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Mina Lefler, Hermine Kittel)

1 April, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail, Martern aller Arten» (Maria Ivogün) - Braunfels: Phantastische Impressionnen über ein Thema von Berlioz - Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Aria (Maria Ivogün) & Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

6 April, Berlin - BSOK

Haydn: Symphony (No. 88 - ex No. 13) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

* In this concert, Büttner conducted his own Fourth symphony (« with a routine assurance » commented the magazine Signale)

9 April, Berlin

Johann Strauss soirée at the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt: works conducted by Schillings, Blech, Stiedry and Furtwängler (details unknown)

11 April, Berlin - BPO

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden , Overture - Haydn: Cello concerto (Arnold Foldesy) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

15 & 17 April, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elfriede Müller, Elisabeth Ohms, Alexis Enehjelm, Wilhelm Fenten)

20 & 21 April, Vienna - WTO

Braunfels: Variationen über ein phantastisches Thema von Berlioz - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Weber: Oberon, Overture

25 & 26 April, Vienna (MVS) - WTO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Berta Kiurina, Olga Bauer-Pilecka, Georg Maikl, Richard Mayr & choir of the Sängerbund, Dreizehnlinden")

28 & 29 April, Vienna - WTO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Korngold: Sursum Corda, Symphonic overture - Pfitzner: Herr Oluf (Hans Duhan) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

4 May, Berlin - BSOK

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Ethel Hansa, Margarethe Arndt-Ober, Valentin Ludwig, Schöpflin)

9 May, Berlin - BPO

Strauss: Don Juan - Mozart: Aria (Hermann Jadlowker) - Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin , Aria (Hermann Jadlowker) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

13 May, Wiesbaden (Theater Orchester)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Mechler, Andra, Streib, Kipnis, Müller-Leichel)

7 June, Wiesbaden (Theater Orchester)

Concert Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Double Concerto (Adolf Busch, Paul Grümmer) & Symphony No. 1

9 June, Wiesbaden (Theater Orchester)

Concert Brahms: Alt-Rapsodie (Sigrid Onegin), Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) & Symphony No. 4

19 June, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Beethoven: Fidelio (The Mannheimer General Anzeiger of June 20 doesn't mention a single soloist)

21 June, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Anna Wolf-Ortner, Otto Fanger, etc.)

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Season 1921 - 1922

28 August, Leipzig (das städtische und Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig = GOL)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Liszt: Piano concerto No. 1 (Telemaque Lambrino) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy for piano (Telemaque Lambrino)

* This concert was given on the occasion of the Leipzig Autumn Fair

Concert programme of 28 August 1921

29 & 30 September, Vienna - WTO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. II - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Mahler: Symphony No. 1

5 October, Berlin - BSOK

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

* The programme announced Walter Braunfels' composition Phantastische Erscheinungen. But since the orchestral scores didn't get there on time, the famous Brahms variations were played instead.

10 October, Berlin - BPO

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: 3 Lieder orchestrated by Reger: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer", auf dem Kirchhofe" & Sapphische Ode" (Sigrid Onegin) - Brahms: Alt-Rapsodie (Sigrid Onegin & Männerchor der Barth'schen Madrigal-Vereinigung) - Liszt: Mazeppa

* According to the review Signale, Sigrid Onegin wasn't at her best and her performance of the Rhapsody was quite mediocre...

14 October, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch)

17 October, Hanover (Städtisches Opern- und Schauspielhaus Orchester)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

23 & 24 October, Hamburg (Staatsoper Orchester)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (with cuts by Furtwängler) - Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasie (Alexandre Siloti) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

* Furtwängler gave this concert as candidate for the conductor's post of this orchestra. Among the other candidates were Hermann Abendroth, Fritz Busch, Fritz Reiner and Carl Schuricht. After he was chosen to succeed Nikisch in Berlin and in Leipzig, the Hamburg «Verein» chose Karl Muck.

31 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. II - Liszt: Piano concerto No. 2 (Emil von Sauer) - Mahler : Symphony No. 1

4 November, Berlin - BSOK

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 11 for violin and cello (Robert Deman, Otto Lüdemann) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

10 & 11 November, Vienna - WTO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 11 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

17 & 18 November, Vienna - WTO

Hausegger: Aufklänge, Symphonische Variationen über ein Kinderlied - Glazunov: Violin concerto (Alma Moodie) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

23 November, Berlin - BSOK

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Braunfels: Phantastische Impressionen - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

30 November & 1 December, Vienna (MVS) - Das Wiener Sinfonie-Orchester

Beethoven: Missa solemnis (first performance by Furtwängler) (Gertrud Foerstel, Olga Bauer-Pilecka, Hermann Gallos & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde )

4 December, Berlin (Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt)

Works conducted by Leo Blech, Max von Schillings and Furtwängler (details unknown)

7 December, Berlin - BSOK

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 (mit dem Paukenschlag) - Reznicek: Variationen für grosses Orchester, after Chamisso's Tragische Geschichte - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

12 December, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 1 (Edwin Fischer) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

16 & 17 December, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Gertrude Foerstel, Hermine Kittel, Georg Maikl, Karl Rössel)

5 & 6 January, Vienna - WTO

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Reger: Piano concerto (Rudolf Serkin) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

10 January, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

13 January, Frankfurt am Main - FMO

Sekles: Passacaglia und Fuge - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

20 January, Berlin - BSOK

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

[23 January: Arthur Nikisch's death]

26 January, Leipzig - GOL (Concert in the memory of Nikisch)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 3 (Funeral March only)

30 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edouard Erdmann) - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

3 February, Berlin - BSOK (Concert in the memory of Nikisch)

Mozart: Maurerische Trauermusik - Braunfels: Phantastische Impressionnen über ein Thema von Berlioz - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3

6 February, Berlin (Concert in the memory of Nikisch) - BPO

Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge (Raatz-Brockmann & Furtwängler, piano) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

* Walter Fischer played at the organ the Brahms choral "O Welt, ich muss dich lassen" and the Kittel choir Nänie », also by Brahms

16 & 17 February, Vienna - WTO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Berlioz: Symphony fantastique

22 February, Berlin - BSOK

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Busoni: Doktor Faust (Sarabande, Cortège) - Liszt: Hungaria, symphonic poem No. 9

28 February & 1 March, Vienna (MVS) - Das Wiener Sinfonie-Orchester

Pfitzner: von deutscher Seele (Berta Kiurina, Emilie Rutschka, Hermann Gallos, Richard Mayr & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

4 March, Munich (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

7 March, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

13 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Leonard, Demlow, Walter, Raatz-Brockmann)

17 March, Berlin - BSOK

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain, Overture - F.E. Koch: eine romantische Suite, Deutsche Wandervögel" - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

21 & 22 March, Vienna - WTO

Mozart: Maurerische Trauermusik - Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

25 & 26 March, Vienna (grosser Musikvereinssaal = MVS) - Wiener Philharmoniker = WP (Vienna Philharmonic)

* It is the Vienna Philharmonic's 753th concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of Brahms' death and at the same time, Furtwängler's first appearance with this orchestra.

Brahms Concert: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Schicksalslied, for choir and orchestra & Symphony No. 4

31 March & 1 April, Vienna - VSO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Gertrude Foerstel, Hermine Kittel, Georg Maikl, Richard Mayr)

Concerts in Italy

16 April, Roma (Sala dell' Augusteo) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 5 - Malipiero: Pause del Silenzio - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

19 April, Roma (Sala dell'Augusteo) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Don Juan - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture

23 April, Roma (Sala dell'Augusteo) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Reznicek: Thema und Variationen - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

28 April, Berlin - BSOK

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 & Concerto for flute and harp (Emil Prill, flute & Max Saal, harp) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

29 April, Berlin - BSOK

Beethoven Concert: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 1 & 3

10 May, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Wagner: die Walküre (Anna Wolf-Ortner, Gunnar Graarud, Wilhelm Rode)

May 22: he marries in Berlin his "Lebensgefährtin", the Danish Zitla Lund, on the day when Wagner was born.

24 May, Berlin - BPO

Brahms Concert: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Alt-Rapsodie (Emmi Leisner) & Symphony No. 4

Hamburg: Fifth Brahms Festival

28 May

Brahms: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch)

* Julius Spengel conducted Rinaldo and Sigrid Onegin sang some Lieder, accompanied at the piano by Michael Raucheisen

29 May

Brahms: Alt-Rapsodie (Sigrid Onegin), Piano concerto No. 1 (Edwin Fischer) & Symphony No. 2

30 May

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn

* Spengel conducted the Schicksalslied

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Season 1922 - 1923

28 & 29 September, Vienna - WTO

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

8 & 9 October, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Franck: Variations symphoniques (Josef Pembauer) - Liszt: Totentanz (Josef Pembauer) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

* The Franck Variations replaced Weber's initially planned Konzertstück

12 October, Leipzig - GOL

* Concert in the memory of Nikisch who was born on October 12 1855 and who premiered in Leipzig Bruckner's seventh symphony. But principally, it is Furtwängler's first concert as official musical director of the Gewandhaus (Gewandhauskapellmeister). The concerts were performed in the great hall of the Gewandhaus.

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

19 October, Leipzig - GOL

Scriabine: le Poème de l'Extase - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Lula Mysz-Gmeiner) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

22 & 23 October, Berlin - BPO

Scriabine: le Poème de l'Extase - Schumann: Piano concerto (Carl Friedberg) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

26 October, Leipzig - GOL

Max Trapp: Symphony No. 2 (UA) - Mozart: 2 Arias «Ach, ihr schwandet », from « Apollo et Hyacinthus » & « L'amerò», sarò costante » from « il re pastore » (Elisabeth Schumann) - Mozart: Alleluia from the Exsultate jubilate (Elisabeth Schumann) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

2 November, Leipzig - GOL

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Bach: Violin concerto No. 2 (Adolf Busch) - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Beethoven - Adolf Busch: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

5 & 6 November, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Beethoven - Mozart: Aria, "Mentre ti lascio, o figlia" (Alexander Kipnis) - Mussorgski: Songs and Danses of Death (Alexander Kipnis) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

9 November, Leipzig - GOL

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Haendel: Acis and Galatea, "Liebe sitzt gaukelnd" (Karl Erb) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Karl Erb)

14 & 15 November, Vienna (MVS) - VSO

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Gertrud Foerstel, Hans Duhan & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

19 & 20 November, Vienna - VSO

Schubert Concerts: Symphonies No. 8 & 9

26 & 27 November, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Haendel: Acis and Galatea , Aria (Karl Erb) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Karl Erb)

30 November, Leipzig - GOL

Boccherini: Symphony op. 16 No. 3 - Joseph Marx: Romantic concerto for piano (Walter Gieseking) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

4 December, Copenhagen (Odd-Fellow Palaeets Store Sal) - Kobenhavns Filharmoniske Orkester

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III & Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & Tannhäuser, Overture

7 December, Leipzig - GOL

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Aria "Grossmächtige Prinzessin" (Irène Eden) - Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral pieces opus 16 (first performance of the revised version) - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & der fliegende Holländer, overture

10 & 11 December, Berlin - BPO

Weber: Beherrscher der Geister opus 27, Overture - Glazounov: Violin concerto (Alexander Schmüller) - Schoenberg: Five Orchestral pieces opus 16 - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

15 & 16 December, Vienna - VSO

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Gertrude Foerstel, Hans Duhan)

1 January, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 101, Clock - Lieder by Haydn (die Teilung der Erde") & Schubert (der Jüngling an der Quelle, der Wanderer, Abschied") (Alexander Kipnis) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* At the beginning of the concert, Günther Ramin played two organ Fantasies by Buxtehude

11 January, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Hindemith: Kammermusik opus 4 No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

14 & 15 January, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Haendel: Atalanta & Acis and Galatea , Arias (Birgit Engell) - Mahler: 3 Lieder (Engell) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

18 January, Leipzig - GOL

Kurt Atterberg: Sinfonia funebre (No. 5) - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 2 (Lubka Kolessa) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

25 January, Leipzig - GOL

Respighi: Le Fontane di Roma - Volkmann: Cello concerto opus 33 (Judith Bokor) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 (played in the memory of Nikisch)

28 & 29 January, Berlin - BPO

Trapp: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Carl Flesch) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

1 February, Leipzig - GOL

Graener: Waldmusik (UA) - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Carl Flesch) - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3

6 & 7 February, Vienna (MVS) - VSO

Haendel: Saul, oratorio (Richard Mayr, Felicie Hüni-Mihacsek, Hermann Gallos, Hermine Kittel, Anton Tausche & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

9 & 10 February, Vienna - WTO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Beethoven - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 - Liszt: Piano concerto No. 2 (Lubka Kolessa) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

15 February, Leipzig - GOL

Pfitzner: das Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Liszt: Totentanz (Alexandre Borowsky) - Liszt: Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo

18 & 19 February, Berlin - BPO

Pfitzner: das Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Haydn: Cello concerto (Emmanuel Feuermann) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

1 March, Leipzig - GOL

Sibelius: En Saga - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Alma Moodie) - Weber: Oberon, Overture

4 & 5 March, Berlin - BPO

Sibelius: En Saga - Brahms: Violin concerto (Maurits van den Berg) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

6 March, Leipzig - GOL (concert at the Leipzig Fair)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Aria "endlich naht sich die Stunde" (Grete Merrem-Nikisch) - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Schumann: Five Lieder "kennst du das Land, der Sandmann, die Kartenlegerin, Märzveilchen, er ist's" (Grete Merrem-Nikisch) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

15 March, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Edgar Wollgandt, Oskar Fischer) - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 20 (Walther Lampe) - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart

18 & 19 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Van den Berg, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

22 March, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Clara Hansen-Schulthess, Marta Adam, Emil Graf, Julius von Raatz-Brockmann)

26 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Lotte Leonard, Paula Werner-Jensen, Hermann Jadlowker, Fred Drissen & Bruno-Kittel choir)

4 & 6 April, Vienna (MVS) - WTO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 3 No. 6 - Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

7 & 8 April, Vienna (MVS) - VSO

Mozart: Requiem (Berta Kiurina-Leuer, Emmy Leisner, Hermann Gallos, Richard Mayr & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

12 April, Amsterdam (Concertgebouworkest)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

19 April, Leipzig - GOL (concert organised for the workmen by the AABI = Allgemeines Arbeiter-Bildungs-Institut)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* Before leaving on tour for Switzerland, Furtwängler was to give two concerts in Munich with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, on April 21 and 22 at the Odeon. (This was announced in the review "Dur und Moll" dated April 15). For some unknown reason, the concerts were cancelled and only one concert took place on May 1, i.e. on the back-journey from Switzerland and not inversely.

Swiss tour of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus (90 musicians)

25 April, Bern

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

26 April, Bern

Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

27 April, Zurich (Grosser Saal)

Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

28 April, Zurich (Grosser Saal)

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

29 April, Basel

Wagner : die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Reger : Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms : Symphony No. 1

30 April, Basel

Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

1 May, Munich (Odeon Hall)

Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

19 June, Milan (Conservatorio G. Verdi) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Santoliquido: Acquarelli

23 June, Milano (Conservatorio G. Verdi) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Beethoven - Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Wagner: die Walküre, Magic fire scene - Marinuzzi: Elegia per orchestra

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Season 1923 - 1924

27 & 28 September, Vienna - WTO

Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

2 & 3 October, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Pfitzner: von deutscher Seele (Amalie Merz-Tunner, Luise Willer, Hermann Gallos, Richard Mayr and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

11 October, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 93 - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Rosette Anday) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

14 & 15 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Wilhelm Guttmann) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

* The review Signale wrote: "Indisputably, among the greatest living conductors Furtwängler is the greatest appearance. "

18 October, Leipzig - GOL

Sekles: Gesichte, phantastische Miniaturen - Brahms: Violin concerto (Joseph Szigeti) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

25 October, Leipzig - GOL

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Pfitzner: Piano concerto (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture

28 & 29 October, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Pfitzner: Piano concerto (Walter Gieseking) - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture

1 November, Leipzig - GOL

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Stravinsky: le sacre du Printemps/the Rite of Spring - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Edwin Fischer)

8 November, Leipzig - GOL

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Brahms: Doppelkonzert für Violine und Violoncello (Edgar Wollgandt, Julius Klengel) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

11 & 12 November, Berlin - BPO

Sekles: Gesichte, phantastische Miniaturen für clines Orchester - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 4 (Joseph Szigeti) - Corelli: la Follia (Sonata No. 7) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

14 November, Prague - BPO

20 & 21 November, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Haendel: Samson, oratorio (Berta Kiurina, Lydia Kindermann, Zoë Formacher, Paul Schmedes, Richard Mayr & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

25 & 26 November, Berlin - BPO

Cimarosa: Il Matrimonio segreto, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 20 (Arthur Schnabel) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

29 November, Leipzig - GOL

Respighi: Antiche arie e danze (the two first parts only) - Bach: Arias from Cantatas BWV 206, 208 & 210 (Lotte Leonard) - Schubert: der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965 (Lotte Leonard) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

30 November, Leipzig & 2 December, Halle-Saale (Thaliasaal) - GOL

Beethoven Concerts: Symphonies No. 3 & 8

6 December, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven Concert: Symphony No. 2, Fantasy for piano and choir (Edwin Bodky) & Egmont, Overture

9 & 10 December, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven Concerts: Leonore Overture Nr. III, Fantasy for piano and choir (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp & Bruno-Kittel choir) & Symphony No.7

13 & 14 December, Vienna - WTO

Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

18 & 19 December, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Bertha Kiurina, Emilie Rutschka, Georg Maikl, Richard Mayr & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

1 January, Leipzig - GOL

Pfitzner: alte Weisen (Irene Eden accompanied at the piano by G. Ramin) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

* At the beginning of the concert, G. Ramin played at the organ Reger's Prelude and Fugue on the name of B.A.C.H.

6 & 7 January, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Stravinsky: le sacre du Printemps/the Rite of Spring - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer)

10 January, Leipzig - GOL

Ewald Strässer: Symphony opus 46 - Zandonai: Concerto romantico, for violin (Armida Senatra) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

12 January, Magdeburg - BPO

13 January, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

17 January, Leipzig - GOL

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Wolf: 3 Lieder « auf ein altes Bild, Anakreons Grab, Prometheus » (Heinrich Rehkemper) - Pfitzner: Herr Oluf (Heinrich Rehkemper) - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

20 & 21 January, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Pfitzner: Herr Oluf (Heinrich Rehkemper) - Strauss: "Hymnus. Pilgers Morgenlied", 2 Lieder from opus 33 (Heinrich Rehkemper) & ein Heldenleben

24 January, London (Queen's Hall) - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* The Vossische Zeitung doesn't mention any work conducted by Vaughan Williams himself

29 January, Liverpool (Philharmonic Orchestra)

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Tcherepnine: Piano concerto No. 1 (Benno Moisewitch) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

4 February, London (Queen's Hall) - London Symphony Orchestra

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: ein Heldenleben - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

7 February, Leipzig - GOL

Erich Korngold: viel Lärm um nichts (symphonic suite after the music composed for Shakespeare's work) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

* Julius Kopsch conducted his piano concerto with Gieseking as soloist

10 & 11 February, Berlin - BPO

Brahms Concerts: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn; Alt-Rapsodie (Emmi Leisner); Zigeunerlieder (Emmi Leisner & Furtwängler, piano) & Symphony No. 3

14 February, Leipzig - GOL

Haendel: Organ Concerto opus 4 No. 2 (Günther Ramin) - Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Martha Adam)

16 February, London (Queen's Hall) - London Symphony Orchestra

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

24 February, Vienna - Wiener Philharmoniker (WP)

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Rosette Anday & Frauenchor des Singvereines der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

26 & 27 February, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Lotte Leonard, Anna Erler-Schnaudt, Karl Erb, Heinrich Rehkemper, Franz Markhoff & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

2 & 3 March, Berlin (Philharmonic) - BPO

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Hilde Elger & Berliner Cäcilienchor)

4 March, Leipzig - GOL (concert held on the occasion of the Leipzig Fair)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail, "Martern aller Arten" (Rosa Lind) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

6 March, Leipzig - GOL

Wilhelm Kempff: Symphony No. 2 opus 19 (UA) - Bach: Concerto for two violins BWV 1043 (Hans Bassermann, Edgar Wollgandt) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

7 March, Leipzig - GOL (AABI concert)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

* At the beginning of the concert, Günther Ramin plays several organ works by Bach and Haendel.

13 March, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 94, mit dem Paukenschlag - Bach: Piano concerto No. 5, BWV 1056 (Furtwängler) - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Hiller

16 & 17 March, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 94, mit dem Paukenschlag - Bach: Piano concerto No. 5, BWV 1056 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

20 March, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Cläre Hansen-Schulthess, Marta Adam, Anton Topitz, Julius von Raatz-Brockmann)

23 & 24 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Lotte Leonard, Hilde Ellger, Paul Madsen, Hans Hermann Nissen & Bruno-Kittel choir)

30 March, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Bizet: Carmen (Alfred Färbach, Emilia Psszert)

5 April, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Walter Kirchhof, A. Färbach, H. Bahling, Mrs A. Geier)

7 April, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Bach: Piano concerto No. 5, BWV 1056 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

27 April, Stettin

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

28 April, Lübeck

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Strauss: Don Juan - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

29 April, Kiel

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

30 April, Hamburg

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 May, Cologne

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prélude

2 May, Düsseldorf

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

3 May, Krefeld

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

5 May, Munich

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

6 May, Munich

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. ? (Furtwängler and?) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

7 May, Sankt Gallen

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schumann: Piano concerto (Lubka Kolessa) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

8 May, Bern

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

9 May, Lausanne

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & Tannhäuser, Overture

10 May, Geneva

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude and Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

11 May, Neuchâtel

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III, Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

12 May, Basel

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

13 May, Zurich

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 -Bach: Piano concerto No. 5 BWV 1056 (Wilhelm Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

14 May, Bern

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No.27 (Lubka Kolessa) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

15 May, Freiburg

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

16 May, Karlsruhe

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

17 May, Stuttgart

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

22 May, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Otto Wolf, Beatrix Sutter-Kottzlar, Joachim Kromer, Wilhelm Fenten)

25 May, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail (Irene Eden, Gussa Heiken, Karl Mang, Fritz Bartling)

Munich Festival

11 August, Munich (Residenz-Theater)

Mozart: die Entführung aus dem Serail (Guido Diemer, Karl Erb, Maria Ivogün, Elisabeth Schumann, Karl Seydel, Paul Bender)

16 August, Munich ( Residenz-Theater)

Mozart: Figaros Hochzeit (Friedrich Brodersen, Nelly Merz, Elisabeth Schumann, Berthold Sterneck, Maria Ivogün, Luise Willer, Robert Lohsing, Karl Seydel, Josef Geis, Thea Linhard)

21 August, Munich ( Prinz-Regenten-Theater)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Otto Wolf, Paul Bender, Gabriele Englerth, Friedrich Brodersen, Oswald Brückner, Luise Willer, Guido Diemer)

28 August, Munich ( Prinz-Regenten-Theater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Paul Bender, Berthold Sterneck, Fritz Fitzau, Josef Geis, Fritz Krauss, Nelly Merz, August Klessner, Fritz Birrenhoven, Kurt Schade, Hans Bertram, Hans Hindelang, Frida Schreiber)

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Season 1924 - 1925

30 September, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

5 & 6 October, Berlin - BPO

Busoni: Geharnischte Suite opus 34a - Strauss: 3 Hymns of opus 71 for soprano, after Hölderlin (Lotte Leonard) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

8 October, Magdeburg - BPO

9 October, Leipzig - GOL

Julius Klengel: Konzert für violine und cello mit Orchester (UA) (Walther Davisson, Julius Klengel) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

16 October, Leipzig - GOL

Concert R. Strauss: Festliches Praeludium, for organ and orchestra (Max Fest, orgue), 3 Hymns opus 71 (Lotte Leonard) & eine Alpensinfonie

19 & 20 October, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Pfitzner: Violin concerto (Alma Moodie) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

23 October, Leipzig - GOL

Max Trapp: Symphony No. 3 (UA) - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Max Pauer) & Leonore III

30 October, Leipzig - GOL

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto No. 1 (Mitja Nikisch) - Smetana: the Bartered Bride, Overture

2 & 3 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture. - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Arthur Schnabel) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

6 November, Leipzig - GOL

J.C. Bach: Symphony op. 18 No. 2 - Haydn: die Schöpfung, Aria (Richard Mayr) - Graener: Divertimento für kleines Orchester opus 67 (UA) - Wolf: Five Lieder (Richard Mayr) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

13 November, Leipzig - GOL

Braunfels: Don Juan, eine Phantasmagorie opus 34 (UA) - Dvorak: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

16 & 17 November, Berlin - BPO

Braunfels: Don Juan, eine Phantasmagorie - Mozart: il re pastore, Aria (Maria Ivogün) - Haendel: l'Allegro il Pensieroso ed il Moderato, Aria (Maria Ivogün) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

20 November, London (Queen's Hall) - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Smetana: the Bartered Bride, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Goodson) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

27 November, Leipzig - GOL

Rimski-Korsakov: la grande Pâque russe, Overture - Pfitzner: Violin concerto (Alma Moodie) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

30 November, Halle-Saale (Walhallatheater) - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

4 December, Leipzig - GOL

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Stravinsky: Concerto for piano and brass band (Igor Stravinsky) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

5 December, Hamburg - BPO

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

7 & 8 December, Berlin - BPO see 4/12

16 & 17 December, Vienna - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Haydn: die Schöpfung ( Birgit Engell, Hermann Gallos, Richard Mayr & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

First American Tour
(10 concerts with the NYPO)

3 January, New York (Carnegie Hall) & 4 January, Brooklyn (Academy of Music)

Strauss: Don Juan - Haydn: Cello concerto (Pablo Casals) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

11 January, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

15 & 16 January, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Schumann: Piano concerto (Olga Samaroff) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

18 January, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

22 & 23 January, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Stravinsky: the Rite of Spring

25 January, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden , Overture- Strauss: Don Juan - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

30 January, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

* 15 minutes of applause. The next day, he boarded the liner Minnetonka to get back to Germany

12 February, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

* Günther Ramin opened the concert playing at the organ Bach's Prelude and fugue BWV 532

19 February, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro, Overture - Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Aria (Bjorn Talen) - Georg Schumann: Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Haendel (UA) - Schumann: Symphony No. 4

22 & 23 February, Berlin - BPO

Georg Schumann: Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Haendel - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto (Mitja Nikisch) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

26 February, Leipzig - GOL

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Serge Bortkiewicz: Piano concerto No. 1 (Lubka Kolessa) - Mahler: Symphony No. 1

1 & 2 March, Berlin - BPO

Sibelius: Violin concerto (Henry Holst) (instead of the Mendelssohn concerto initially planned with Maurits van den Berg) - Mozart: Don Giovanni, 2 Arias (Richard Tauber) - Mahler: Symphony No. 1

5 March Leipzig - GOL (the concert was postponed to March 26)

8 & 9 March, Berlin - BPO

Bach: 2 Chorals (Orchestration by Schoenberg): « Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist » & « Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele » - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 1 (Lubka Kolessa) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

12 March, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Haendel: Acis and Galatea & Atalanta, Arias (Birgit Engell) - Lieder by Schubert (« Sprache der Liebe) and Mendelssohn ("in den Mondenschein, ein Blick von deinen Augen") ( (Birgit Engel & Furtwängler at the piano) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

19 March, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Cläre Hansen-Schulthess, Helga Weeke, Gunnar Graarud, Julius von Raatz-Brockmann)

20 March, Hamburg ; 22 & 23 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 et 5

25 March, Magdeburg - BPO

26 March, Leipzig - GOL

Haendel: Water Music - Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge (Julius von Raatz-Brockmann) & Symphony No. 2

29 & 30 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Lotte Leonard, Helga Weeke, Alfred Wilde, Julius von Raatz-Brockmann & Bruno-Kittel choir)

7 & 8 April, Vienna - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Bach: Johannes-Passion (Gertrud Foerstel, Rosette Anday, Alfred Wilde, Heinrich Rehkemper, Josef von Manowarda & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde )

12 April, Vienna (MVS) - WP

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Concerts in Scandinavia

15 April, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

19 April, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

21 April, Stockholm - Konsertföreningen

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

28 April, Hanover

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

29 April, Hamburg

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

30 April, Kiel

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

1 May, Lübeck

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

2 May, Stettin

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

4 May, Breslau

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

5 May, Prague

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

6 May, Vienna

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

7 May, Budapest

Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

8 May, Budapest

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

11 May, Munich

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

13 May, Nürnberg

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

14 May, Stuttgart

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

15 May, Basel

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

16 May, Freiburg

Wagner : die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

17 May, Baden-Baden

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

18 Maiy, Pforzheim

Haendel: Concerto Grosso op. 5 No. 10 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 May, Mannheim

Wagner : die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Reger : Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms : Symphony No. 4

20 May, Heidelberg

Haendel: Concerto Grosso op. 5 No. 3 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

22 May, Frankfurt am Main

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

23 May, Wiesbaden

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 5 No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

24 May, Koblenz

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

25 May, Cologne

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

26 May, Düsseldorf

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

27 May, Elberfeld

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

28 May, Krefeld

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

29 May, Kassel

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Görlitz Festival
(Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)

7 June

Strauss: ein Heldenleben - Pfitzner: Piano concerto (Walter Gieseking) - Bruckner: Te Deum (Lotte Leonard, Eva Liebenberg, Hans-Hermann Nissen)

9 June

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 & Violin concerto (Anna Hegner) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude and aria (Hans Hermann Nissen)

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Season 1925 - 1926

29 September, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Bartok: Suite of dances - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

4 & 5 October, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, two Arias (Dusolina Giannini) - Bartok: Suite of dances - Weber: Ozean, du Ungeheuer (Giannini) - Strauss: Don Juan

8 October, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 100, Military - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, 2 Arias (Dusolina Giannini) - Respighi: i Pini di Roma - Weber: Ozean, du Ungeheuer (Giannini) - Strauss: Don Juan

15 October, Leipzig - GOL

Hermann Ambrosius: Symphony No. 4 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer & an der schönen blauen Donau

16 October, Hamburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Strauss: Don Juan - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

18 & 19 October, Berlin - BPO

Respighi: i Pini di Roma - Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Adolf Busch) - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

22 October, Leipzig - GOL

Kletzki: Vorspiel zu einer Tragödie - Bach: Piano concerto BWV 1052 (Alexandre Borowsky) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

25 October, Halle-Saale (Walhallatheater) - GOL

Strauss: Don Juan - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer & an der schönen blauen Donau - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

29 October, Leipzig; 1 & 2 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: Parergon on the Sinfonia Domestica for piano (left hand) and orchestra (Paul Wittgenstein) & Also sprach Zarathustra

9 & 10 November, Vienna (MVS)- VSO

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Gertrud Foerstel-Links, Josef Groenen and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

12 November, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: Piano concerto No. 26 K 537 (Arthur Schnabel) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

15 & 16 November, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Piano concerto (José Iturbi) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

26 November, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Cello Concerto (Hans Münch-Holland) - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

27 November, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

29 & 30 November, Berlin - BPO

J.Chr. Bach: Symphony in D flat major - Bach: Piano concerto No. 7 (Alexandre Borowsky) - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

3 December, Leipzig - GOL

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Hiller - Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre

* W. von Baussnern conducted the concert's second part (premiere of his Hymnische Stunden) and Julius von Raatz-Brockmann sang six Lieder, accompanied at the piano by Lena Wolde

6 & 7 December, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Hiller - Brahms: Violin concerto (Bronislav Huberman) & Akademische Ouvertüre

12 & 13 December, Vienna (MVS) - WP

Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

Concert programme of 13 December 1925

17 December, Leipzig - GOL

Locatelli: Concerto Grosso No. 8 - Haendel: Ode for Saint Cecilia, Aria (Delia Reinhardt) - Hindemith: Konzert für Orchester - Wagner: 5 Wesendonck-Lieder (Delia Reinhardt) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

20 & 21 December, Berlin - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Bach: Cantata BWV 51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" (Maria Ivogün) - Haendel: Semele, Aria: "O süsser Schlaf" (Maria Ivogün) - Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Braunfels: die Vögel, prelude - Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra opus 38

1 January, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Gluck: Hélène and Pâris, Aria (Birgit Engell & Furtwängler, piano) - NikolausReznicek: Thema mit Variationen (tragische Geschichte) - 5 Lieder by Wolf and Pfitzner (Birgit Engell & Furtwängler, piano) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

7 January, Leipzig - GOL

Hans Gal: Ouvertüre zu einem Puppenspiel - Bach: Cembalo Concerto No. 7 BWV 1058 (Furtwängler, piano) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

8 January, Hamburg; 10 & 11 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bach: Cembalo Concerto BWV 1058 (Furtwängler, piano) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

19 & 20 January, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Suter: Le Laudi (Amalie Merz-Thunner, Frieda Dierolf, Karl Erb, Josef von Manowarda & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

24 & 25 January, Berlin - BPO

Brahms: ein deustches Requiem (Lotte Leonard, Hermann Schey & choeur Bruno Kittel)

27 January, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 3

Coming from Europe, Furtwängler arrived in New York on February 10 on the liner Albert Ballin, accompanied by his wife Zitla Lund

Second American tour
(31 concerts with the NYPO)

11 & 12 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

13 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Valentini: Cello Suite (Hans Kindler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

14 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Valentini: Cello Suite (Hans Kindler) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

18 & 19 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Schumann: Piano concerto (Guiomar Novaes) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

20 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

21 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

23 February, New York (Hotel Waldorf Astoria)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schubert: Rosamunde, Interlude - Dvorak: Slavonic Dance - Brahms: Two Hungarian Dances - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

25 & 26 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Berlioz: le Corsaire, Overture - Respighi: Antiche arie e danze, Suite No. 2 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

28 February, Brooklyn (Academy of Music)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Brahms: Violin concerto (Joseph Szigeti) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

4 & 5 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Intermezzo, Interlude and waltzes - Brahms: Hungarian dances Nos. 1, 3 & 10

7 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Scipione Guidi) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

8 & 9 March, Philadelphia (Academy of Music & National Theatre) & 10 March, Baltimore

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

11 March, Reading (Strand Theatre)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

12 March, Pittsburgh (Syria Mosque)

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Respighi: Antiche arie e danze, Suite No. 2 - Brahms: Hungarian dances Nos. 1, 3 & 10

13 March, Pittsburgh (Syria Mosque)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

14 March, New York (Metropolitan Opera House)

Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Wilhelm Backhaus) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

18 & 19 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht - Dvorak: Husitska, Overture - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

20 March, New York (Carnegie Hall) - student concert

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Schoenberg: die verklärte Nacht - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Hungarian dances Nos. 1/3/10

21 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Saint-Saëns: Cello concerto No. 1 (Leo Schulz) - Beethoven: Leonore III

25 & 26 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 26 (Wanda Landowska) - Haydn: Cembalo concerto (Wanda Landowska) - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture

27 March, New York (Carnegie Hall) - student concert

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

28 March, Brooklyn (Academy of Music)

Respighi: Antiche arie e danze, Suite No. 2 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

1 & 2 April, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

18 & 19 April, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Dvorak: Cello concerto (Gregor Piatigorsky) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

22 April, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Claire Gerhart-Schulthess, Marta Adam, Anton Maria Topitz, Rudolf Bockelmann)

25 & 26 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

28 April, Stettin

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

29 April, Hamburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

30 April, Braunschweig

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* It seems that that same day an afternoon performance was given with the same programme in Kiel

1 May, Essen

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

2 May, Mülheim

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

3 May, Cologne

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

4 May, Düsseldorf

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

5 May, Kassel

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Hungarian dances - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

7 May, Breslau

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

8 May, Görlitz

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

9 May, Prague

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

10 May, Vienna

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

11 May, Budapest

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Hungarian dances

12 May, Budapest

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

15 May, Zurich (Grosser Saal)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

16 May, Lausanne

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

17 May, Freiburg

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

18 May, Stuttgart

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

19 May, Frankfurt am Main

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

20 May, Mannheim

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

Heidelberg Brahms Festival

29 & 30 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Brahms : Akademische Ouvertüre & ein deutsches Requiem (Lotte Leonard, Julius von Raatz-Brockmann)

31 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Brahms : Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto for violin and cello (Adolf Busch, Paul Grümmer) & Akademische Ouvertüre

2 June, Heidelberg - BPO

Brahms : Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Piano concerto No. 2 (Elly Ney) & Symphony No. 1

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Season 1926 - 1927

21 September, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Franck: Symphony in D minor - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll

26 & 27 September, Berlin - BPO

Franck: Symphony in D minor - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Elly Ney) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

7 October, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 4 (Joseph Szigeti) - Honegger: Chant de Joie - George Templeton Strong: ein Künstlerleben, for violin and orchestra (Joseph Szigeti) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

10 & 11 October, Berlin - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Honegger: Chant de Joie - Lalo: Symphonie espagnole (Jacques Thibaud) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

14 October, Leipzig - GOL

Günther Raphael: Symphony No. 1 (UA) - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, 2 Arias (Eva Liebenberg) - Schubert: Rosamunde, Interlude & 3 Lieder « dem Unendlichen, Nähe des Geliebten, Ave Maria » (Eva Liebenberg) - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture

21 October, Leipzig - GOL (concert for the thirtieth anniversay of Bruckner's death)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Liszt: Piano concerto No.2 (Vladimir Horowitz) - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

22 October, Hamburg - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Honegger: Chant de Joie - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture

24 & 25 October, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Liszt: Piano concerto No.2 (Vladimir Horowitz) - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

28 October, Leipzig - GOL

Prokoviev: Violin concerto No. 1 (Carl Münch) - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Chausson: Poème, for violin and orchestra (Carl Münch) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

29 October, Magdeburg - BPO

31 October, Halle-Saale (Walhallasaal) - GOL

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

4 November, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Philip Jarnach: Morgenklangspiele (UA) - Strawinsky: Fireworks - Schumann: Piano concerto (Gerda Nette-Teichmüller) - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

7 & 8 November, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Jarnach: Morgenklangspiele - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Arthur Schnabel) - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture

16 & 17 November, Vienna - Das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Bach: Matthew-Passion (

Felicie Mihacsek, Ilona Durigo, Karl Erb, Josef von Manowarda, Franz Markhoff)

21 & 22 November, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Bronislav Huberman) - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

25 November, Leipzig - GOL

Schumann: Genoveva, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Graener: Gothische Suite - Schoeck: Gaselen, for baryton with piano accompaniment (Heinrich Rehkemper & Hans Beltz, piano) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

28 & 29 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven concerts: Egmont, Symphonies No. 4 & 5

2 December, Leipzig - GOL

Bach: Suite No. 2 (Carl Bartuzat, flute) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Rudolf Balve & Max Fest, organ)

3 December, Hamburg - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Brahms: Double Concerto (Henry Holst, Gregor Piatigorsky) - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

5 & 6 December, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III; Fidelio, Prelude of act 3 and Florestan' aria (Carl Martin Ohmann) - Liszt: Faust Symphony (Ohmann)

9 December, Leipzig - GOL

Emil Toch: Piano concerto (Elly Ney) - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasie (Elly Ney) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

16 December, Leipzig - GOL

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain, Overture - Casella: Partita for piano and orchestra (Casella) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 & 20 December, Berlin - BPO

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain, Overture - Casella: Partita (Alfredo Casella) - Mozart: 2 Arias, «non temer, amato bene» & «bei diesen schönen Augen» (Maria Ivogün) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

31 December, Leipzig - GOL (AABI Silvesterkonzert - New-Years's Eve concert)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture.

1 January, Leipzig - GOL

Marcello: Aria from the cantata Didon (Marianne Mörner) - Beethoven: Grosse Fuge - 4 Lieder by Brahms «Trennung, Feinsliebchen, Frühlingstrosst, Parole» (Marianne Mörner and Furtwängler, piano) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

6 January, Leipzig - GOL

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 - Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé, 2nd Suite - Saint-Saëns: Cello concerto No. 1 (Gaspard Cassado) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

9 & 10 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Great Fugue - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 1 (Emil von Sauer) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

15 & 16 January, Vienna - WP

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 January, München (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

21 January, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Great Fugue - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

23 & 24 January, Berlin - BPO

Concerts Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Piano concerto No. 4 (Edwin Fischer) & Symphony No. 7

* Furtwängler arrives in New York on February 9 on board of the liner Aquitania

Third American Tour
(33 concerts with the NYPO)

10 & 11 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Cello concerto (Pablo Casals) - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

12 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Violin concerto (Bernard Ocko) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

13 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, Hungarian march

17 & 18 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain - Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 7 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

20 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Brahms: Violin concerto (Paul Kochanski) - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

24 & 25 February, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 - Sibelius: The Tempest - Hindemith: Konzert für Orchester - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

27 February, Brooklyn (Academy of Music)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Violin concerto (Paul Kochanski) - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

1 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Concert Wagner: excerpts from Lohengrin, Rheingold, Walküre, Tristan und Isolde & Götterdämmerung (Ernestine Schumann-Heinke)

3 & 4 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Prokoviev: Violin concerto No. 1 (Joseph Szigeti) - Beethoven: Leonore II - Franck: Symphony in D minor

6 March, New York (Carnegie Hall) & 7 March, Philadelphia (Academy of Music)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Sibelius: The Tempest - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

8 March, Washington (National Theatre); 9 March, Baltimore (Lyric Theatre) & 10 March, Harrisburg (Majestic Theatre)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Sibelius: The Tempest - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

11 March, Pittsburgh (Syria Mosque)

Beethoven: Coriolan & Symphony No. 7 - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

12 March, Pittsburgh (Syria Mosque)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Sibelius: The Tempest - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

13 March, New York (Metropolitan Opera House)

Franck: Symphony in D minor - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain

17 & 18 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Braunfels: Don Juan - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

19 March, New York (Carnegie Hall) - student concert

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

20 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Schelling: Fantastic suite for piano and orchestra (Ernst Schelling) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

24 & 25 March, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Beethoven concert: Great Fugue, Piano concerto No. 4 (Walter Gieseking) & Symphony No. 5

26 March, New York (Carnegie Hall) - concert for the students

Strauss: Don Juan - Bruch: Kol Nidrei (Leo Schulz, cello) - Schulz: Berceuse (Leo Schulz) - Dvorak: Rondo opus 94 (Leo Schulz) - Franck: Symphony in D minor

27 March, Brooklyn (Academy of Music)

Strauss: Don Juan - Schelling: Suite fantastique (Ernest Schelling) - Franck: Symphony in D minor

31 March & 1er April, New York (Carnegie Hall)

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Elisabeth Rethberg, Fraser Gange)

2 April, New York (Carnegie Hall) - concert for the students

Braunfels: Don Juan - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

3 April, New York (Metropolitan Opera House)

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Louise Level, Fraser Gange)

22 April, Hamburg ; 24 & 25 April, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

28 & 29 April, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Felicie Hüni-Mihacsek, Frieda Dierolf, Heinrich Knote, Hermann Schey)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

2 May, Stettin

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

4 May, Copenhagen

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

5 May, Copenhagen

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

6 May, Kiel

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

7 May, Braunschweig

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

8 May, Mühlheim

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

9 May, Dortmund

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

10 May, Düsseldorf

Weber: Euryanthe - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

11 May, Cologne

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

12 May, Essen

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

13 May, Frankfurt

Beethoven: Egmont, Symphonies No. 4 & 5

14 May, Jena

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

15 May, Chemnitz

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

16 May, Dresden

Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

17 May, Prague

Weber: Euryanthe - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

18 May, Prague & 19 May, Brünn (Brno)

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

20 May, Vienna

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

22 May, Salzburg (Festspielhaus)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Hungarian dances No. 1, 3 & 10

23 May, München

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Hungarian dances No. 1, 3 & 10

24 May, Stuttgart

Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

25 May, Zurich

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Hungarian dances No. 1, 3 & 10

27 May, Bern

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

28 May, Basel

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

29 May, Pforzheim

Bach: Brandeburg Concerto No. 3 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

30 May, Freiburg

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & 7

Heidelberg Beethoven Festival

1 June, Heidelberg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 6

2 June, Heidelberg - BPO

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Piano concerto No. 5 (Edwin Fischer) & Symphony No. 7

3 June, Heidelberg - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & 5

1 July, Frankfurt am Main (Opernhaus) - das Theater Orchester

* It is the fifth IGNM Festival (International Society for Contemporary Music). Other works were conducted by Hermann Scherchen and Walther Straram

Bartok: Piano concerto No. 1 (Bela Bartok) - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5

11 August, Berlin - BPO and Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester

* Furtwängler conducts the prelude of the Meistersinger in a concert in the honour of the Prussian Government. The second part was conducted by Wiedemann.

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Season 1927 - 1928

30 September, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Prokoviev: le Chout

6 October, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 (mit dem Paukenwirbel) - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto (Erica Morini) - Prokoviev: Chout

* During the morning rehearsal Charles (Carl) Münch played Bach's second violin concerto because, due to trafic jams, Erica Morini wasn't able to attend the rehearsal in time.

9 & 10 October, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 (mit dem Paukenwirbel) - Beethoven: Ah Perfido (Elisabeth Rethberg) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung & 3 Lieder (Elisabeth Rethberg) - Prokoviev: Chout

13 October, Leipzig - GOL

Ewald Straesser: Symphony No. 6 opus 50 - Beethoven: Ah Perfido (Elisabeth Rethberg) - Strauss: 3 Lieder "Morgen, Meinem Kinde, Cäcilie" (Elisabeth Rethberg) & Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

20 October, Leipzig - GOL

Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a theme by Tallis - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Elly Ney) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 & Egmont, Overture

21 October, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé, Second Suite - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

23 & 24 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 5 (Adolf Busch) - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, second Suite

27 October, Leipzig - GOL

Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Alfred Hoehn) & Egmont

3 & 4 November, Leipzig - GOL

Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - Mendelssohn: Elias, Arias (Ernest Osterkamp) & ein Sommernachtstraum, extrait - Stravinsky: Petruchka

5 November, Magdeburg - BPO

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

10 November, Leipzig - GOL

Toch: Komödie für Orchester - Busoni: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

13 & 14 November, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro, Overture & Piano concerto No. 20 (Walter Gieseking) - Toch: Komödie für Orchester - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

19 & 20 November, Vienna - WP

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2ème Suite - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

* These concerts (Nos. 1076 & 1077) marked Furtwängler's first appearance as musical director of the Vienna Philharmonic. The Abonnement-Konzerte took place on Saturday afternoons and on Sunday mornings in the great hall of the Musikverein

22 & 23 November, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Mia Peltenburg, Rosette Anday, Paul Marion, Josef von Manowarda and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

27 & 28 November, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Bronislav Huberman) - Stravinsky: Petruchka

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

30 November, Hanover

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a Theme of Tallis

2 December, London (Quuen's Hall)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

3 December, Manchester

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

4 December, London (Queen's Hall)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a theme by Tallis - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

5 December, Bonn

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

6 December, Frankfurt am Main

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

10 & 11 December, Vienna - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 103 - Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a theme by Tallis - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

16 December, Hamburg - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

18 & 19 December, Berlin - BPO

Stoelzel: Concerto Grosso a due chori - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Aria (Sigrid Onegin) - Brahms: Alt-Rapsodie (Sigrid Onegin) - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

31 December, Leipzig - GOL (New-Year's Eve concert of the AABI = Allgemeines Arbeiter-Bildungs-Institut)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture Nr. III - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 January, Leipzig - GOL

Gluck: Pâris et Hélène; Hercule et Hébé, Arias (Lotte Schöne) - Mozart: Idomeneo, ballet (Gavotte) - Mozart: Zaide, Aria (Lotte Schöne) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

* Günther Ramin opened the concert with a Bach Prelude and Fugue

6 January, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

8 & 9 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: das Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture - Haydn: Cembalo concerto (Wanda Landowska) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

14 & 15 January, Vienna - WP

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

17 & 18 January, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Haendel: the Messiah (Mia Peltenburg, Luise Willer, Hermann Gallos, Erik Wildhagen and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

21 January, Munich (Konzertvereins-Orchester)

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

9 February, Leipzig - GOL

Reger: 4 Tondichtungen nach Böcklin - Spohr: Violin concerto No. 8 (Stefi Geyer) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

10 February, Hamburg - BPO

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Reger: 4 Tondichtungen nach Böcklin - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

12 & 13 February, Berlin - BPO

Reger: 4 Tondichtungen nach Böcklin - Schumann: Piano concerto (Misha Levitzki) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

20 February, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Lotte Leonard, Frieda Dierolf, Karl Erb, Rudolf Bockelmann, Fred Drissen & Bruno-Kittel choir)

23 February, Leipzig - GOL

Walter Braunfels: Concerto for organ and orchestra opus 38 (UA) (Günther Ramin) - Haendel: 3 Arias from the Messiah (Mia Peltenburg) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

25 & 26 February, Vienna - WP

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain, Overture - Stravinsky: Petruchka - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

1 March, Leipzig - GOL

Karl Hasse: Symphonisches Vorspiel für Orchester - Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, 3 excerpts - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 1 (Wilhelm Kempff) - Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre

4 & 5 March, Berlin - BPO

Karol Rathaus: Ouvertüre für grosses Orchester opus 22 (UA) - Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, 3 excerpts - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) & Akademische Ouvertüre

6 March, Leipzig - GOL (concert on the occasion of the Leipzig Fair)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, 3 excerpts - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

8 & 9 March, Leipzig - GOL

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 6 - Weber: Piano concerto No. 1 (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) - Günther Raphael: Thema, Variationen und Rondo - Liszt: Piano concerto No. 1 (Frieda Kwast-Hodapp) - Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch

15 March, Leipzig - GOL

Hermann von Waltershausen: Krippenmusik (Gunther Ramin, cembalo) - Haydn: Cello concerto No. 2 (Gregor Piatigorsky) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

16 March, Hamburg - BPO

Respighi: Antiche arie e danze - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 1 (Lubka Kolessa)

18 & 19 March, Berlin - BPO

Respighi: Antiche arie e danze - Sibelius: Violin concerto (Franz von Vecsey) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

22 March, Leipzig - GOL

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Wollgandt, Fischer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

25 March, Lübeck (Theater Orchester)

a) Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 - Mozart: Idomeneo, ballet (conducted by Edwin Fischer)

b) Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Edwin Fischer) (conducted by Furtwängler)

29 March, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Mia Peltenburg, Frieda Dierolf, Paul Beinert, Wolfgang Rosenthal)

* Last concert as Gewandhauskapellmeister. Furtwängler was offered enormous sprays of flower in the name of the orchestra and of the Management and he briefly addressed the audience: "Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you. Goodbye.» The Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten wrote the next day: «The name of this great artist will remain inscribed in gold letters in the book of our musical history."

2 & 3 April, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Holst, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

11 & 12 April, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Bach: St. John's Passion (Lotte Leonard, Frieda Dierolf, Karl Erb, Heinrich Rehkemper, Josef von Manowarda & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

14 & 15 April, Vienna - WP

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, W. Sonnenberg, F. Mairecker) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

17 April, Budapest - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture No. III - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

18 April, Budapest - WP

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, marche hongroise) - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

22 April, Stettin

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Holst, Harzer) - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

24 April, Copenhagen

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

25 April, Copenhagen

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

26 April, Rostock

Strauss: Don Juan - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Holst, Harzer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

27 April, Hamburg

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 ( Furtwängler, Holst, Harzer ) Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

28 April, Braunschweig

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

29 April, Mühlheim

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

30 April, Elberfeld

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 May, Essen

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Holst, Harzer) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

2 May, Gelsenkirchen

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

3 May, Düsseldorf

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

4 May, Cologne

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 ( Furtwängler, Holst, Harzer) - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

5 May, Frankfurt am Main

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No.8 & 9

7 May, Mannheim

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Mozart: Symphony No. 40

8 May, Saarbrücken

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 May, Neunkirchen

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

11 May, Paris (Salle Pleyel)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

12 May, Freiburg

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

13 May, Lucerne

Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

14 May, Zurich

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture - Symphonies No. 8 & 9

15 May, Geneva

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture and Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

16 May, Basel

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

18 May, Stuttgart

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

19 May, Munich

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

20 May, Baden-Baden

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore III & Symphony No. 3

Heidelberg and Görlitz Festivals

23 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture, Symphonies No. 8 & 9

24 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Haydn: Cello concerto (Gregor Piatigorsky) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

25 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Holst, Harzer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

1 June , Görlitz - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore-Ouvertüre Nr. II - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 17 (Arthur Schnabel) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

3 June, Görlitz - BPO

Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Double Concerto (Carl Flesch, Gregor Piatigorsky) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Haendel: the Messiah , Alleluia

16, 17 & 18 June, Hanover - BPO

11 August, Berlin (BPO & Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No 10 - Bruckner: Psalm 150 (Lotte Leonard)

* W. von Baussnern conducted the concert's second part

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Season 1928 - 1929

30 September, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Wagner: die Walküre

Gabriele Englerth, Hans Bahling, Adolf Loeltgen, Gertrud Bindernagel, Erna Schlüter, Wilhelm Fenten

1 October, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Schubert: die Zauberharfe D 644, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

5 October, Hamburg - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

7 & 8 October, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Mozart: Violin concerto No. 5 (Erica Morini) - Bruckner Symphony No. 4

17 & 19 October, Vienna - Operntheater (for the first time)

Wagner: das Rheingold (Schipper, Schubert, Wildbrunn, Helletsgruber)

20 & 21 October, Vienna - WP

Concert Schubert: Symphonies No. 8 & 9

23 October, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: das Rheingold (Manowarda, Schubert, Born, Helletsgruber)

28 & 29 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Hindemith: das Nusch-Nuschi opus 20 - Brahms: Double Concerto for violin and cello (Carl Flesch, Gregor Piatigorsky) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

31 October, Düsseldorf

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

1 November, Cologne

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

2 November, Hanover

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

4 November, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

5 November, London (Queen's Hall)

Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

6 November, Liverpool

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Don Juan - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

7 November, London (Queen's Hall)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 November, Hamburg

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

11 & 12 November, Berlin - BPO

Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No. 3 (Serge Rachmaninov) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15 November, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: das Rheingold (Schipper, Gallos, Born, Helletsgruber)

20 November, Vienna (Operntheater)

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro (Hans Hermann Nissen, Adèle Kern, Rosette Anday, Hermann Gallos)

Concert programme of 20 November 1928 - Click on image to enlarge

Programme of the opera performance of 20 November 1928

25 November, Vienna - WP

Festival for the hundredth anniversary of Schubert's death: die Zauberharfe; Five Menuets and six Trios for strings; Interlude of Rosamunde & Symphony No. 9

26 November, Vienna (Operntheater)

Mozart : Le Nozze di Figaro (Hans Hermann Nissen, Elisabeth Schumann, Alfred Jerger, Luise Helletsgruber)

29 November, Halle-Saale - BPO

2 & 3 December, Berlin - BPO

Schoenberg : Variationen für Orchester opus 31 (UA) - Pfitzner: Lethe opus 37 (Friedrich Schorr) - Weber: Euryanthe, Aria (Friedrich Schorr) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

In his book of recollections, "Cellist", Gregor Piatigorsky recalls the Premiere of the Schoenberg Variations:

"Under Furtwängler there were many memorable performances. Yet not every Furtwängler concert was all glory. I remember particularly one first performance of a contemporary work. Extremely difficult, the piece needed more time for rehearsal than was available. Furtwängler, after running through the piece, began to work note by note for the rest of the rehearsal.

"Is it F sharp? inquired a musician. Furtwängler consulted the score and said: "Yes. Why?" "Does not sound right". Every second someone would interrupt Furtwängler with a question. "Is it a sixteenth note?" "How do you play pizzicato and arco at the same time?" And cetera, and cetera. Furtwängler, trying to clarify things, sank only deeper into confusion. He spent that afternoon and evening studying the score. Next morning we rehearsed again but the composition appeared only the more complex. "Let's at least play together", Furtwängler would cry as he repeated the piece again and again. "You realize that there will be only one more rehearsal this afternoon, and that the composer will be present?" After a short lunch we assembled at the Philharmonic."

"Gentlemen", announced Furtwängler, "I have just received the most wonderful news from Vienna. The composer is not coming. He send his best wishes." Bravo! Wunderbar!" cried a host of jubilant voices. "That's not all", Furtwängler continued. "We will of course try to do our best but at the same time, I want you to know that there is only one score of the composition in the country. The composer has the other one."

The next day the musicians arrived for the concert much earlier than usual. The pieces preceding the premiere were played as if we had something else on our minds. Then came the world premiere. Up loomed Furtwängler's worried face and the orchestra plunged into deep, unknown waters. From the very start I had the strange sensation of riding on the back of a galloping giraffe. The weird sounds of the orchestra welled up as though from the stomachs of hundreds of ventriloquists. The double basses sounded like violas and the bassoons like flutes. Each player strove desperately to keep in touch with the others, not turning any more to Furtwängler for help. He himself was hopelessly lost. The termination of the performance began gradually, the players dropping out one by one until only Furtwängler and a few isolated instruments were left. At that point, for no explainable reason, the brass section entered. The magnitude of the sound was truly fabulous and, coming so unexpectedly, it took us all completely off guard. We grabbed our instruments and vigorously joined the brasses with renewed hope. The incredible noise did not last very long and soon, after a few last convulsions, everything stopped dead. The silence that followed this abrupt ending was terrible to bear and the hissing and catcalls came almost as a relief. Among those applauding in the audience I noticed two famous musicians. After the concert I heard them say, "The public is too stupid to understand".

8 & 9 December, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

16 & 17 December, Berlin - BPO

Debussy: la Mer - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 19, K 459 (Arthur Schnabel) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

22 & 23 December, Vienna - WP

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

20 & 21 January, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Violin concerto (Fritz Kreisler) - Stravinsky: The Firebird

26 & 27 January, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

29 & 30 January, Vienna - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Mia Peltenburg, Rosette Anday, Karl Erb, Josef von Manowarda, Anton Tausche)

3 & 4 February, Berlin - BPO

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 1 (Wilhelm Kempff) - Mahler: Symphony No. 1

5 February, Hamburg - BPO

Stravinsky: The Firebird - Bloch: Schelomo - Mahler: Symphony No. 1

10 & 11 February, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Lotte Leonard, Rosette Anday, Karl Erb, Heinrich Rehkemper, Rudolf Watzke & Bruno Kittel choir)

16 & 17 February, Vienna - WP

Haendel: Concerto for strings, two violins and cello (Mairecker, Swertka, Buxbaum) - Respighi: Antiche arie e danze - Mahler: Symphony No. 1

22 February, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

24 & 25 February, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 - Beethoven: Christus am Olberg, Aria (Karl Erb) - Hindemith: Concerto for organ and chamber orchestra opus 46/2 (Fritz Heitmann) - Strauss: Guntram, final scene (Karl Erb) & Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

2 & 3 March, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Korngold: viel Lärm um nichts - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

5 & 6 March, Vienna - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Adelheid Armhold, Helge Rosvaenge, Karl Rössel, Alexander Mosjoukine)

10 & 11 March, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, Prelude - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch) & Three Hungarian dances

16 & 17 March, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 - Bloch: Schelomo (F. Buxbaum, cello) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

20 March, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: das Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 20 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

21 March, Halle-Saale - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 93 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

22 March, Hamburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Günther Raphael: Thema, Variationen und Rondo - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

24 & 25 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Fantasy for piano and choir (Fréderic Lamond & Bruno Kittel choir) & Symphony No. 3 - Günther Raphael: Thema, Variationen und Rondo

6 & 7 April, Vienna - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Pfitzner: Herr Oluf (Alfred Jerger) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

8 April, Budapest - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 April, Budapest - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

13 & 14 April, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: die Weihe des Hauses, Overture & Symphony No. 9 (Maria Gerhart, Hermine Kittel, Koloman von Pataky, Richard Mayr)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

18 April, Hamburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 April, Kiel

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

20 April, Lübeck

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

21 April, Stettin

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

22 April, Danzig (Gdansk)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

23 & 24 April, Königsberg

* After the concert, a small number of music lovers was invited by the town's authorities and gathered at the Town hall. After a welcome speech by the Mayor Goerdeler, Hermann Scherchen praised the efforts of Furtwängler in establishing a new tradition of performaning the classical and romantic repertoire. (Scherchen was at the time musical director of the Radio Königsberg orchestra).

26 April, Braunschweig

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

27 April, Essen

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

29 April, Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

30 April, Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées)

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

2 May, Luxembourg

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

3 May, Trier

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

4 May, Saarbrucken

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

5 May, Wiesbaden

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

6 May, Frankfurt am Main

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

7 May, Mannheim

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

8 May, Baden-Baden

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nûrnberg, Prelude

10 May, Freiburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

11 May, Zurich

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12 May, Montreux

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum Overture - Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

13 May, Geneva

Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

14 May, Basel

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Brahms: Double Concerto (Carl Flesch, Gregor Piatigorsky) - Strauss: Don Juan - Mozart: Symphony No. 39

15 May, Stuttgart

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture No. III - Brahms: Double Concerto (Carl Flesch, Gregor Piatigorsky) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

16 May, Munich

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Haydn: Symphony No. 86 - Stravinsky: The Firebird

17 May, Bamberg

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

Heidelberg Festival

21 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Lieder by Karl Erb - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

22 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

23 May, Heidelberg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 8

Seventh Brahms Festival in Jena

29 & 30 May, Jena (in the great hall of the Volkshaus) - BPO

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Mia Peltenburg, Kurt Wichmann & Vereinigte Jenaer Chöre)

31 May, Jena (in the great hall of the Volkshaus) - BPO

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Piano concerto No. 1 (Ossip Gabrilowitsch) & Symphony No. 2

2 June, Jena (in the great hall of the Volkshaus) - BPO

Brahms : Tragische Ouvertüre, Violin concerto (Bronislav Hubermann) & Symphony No. 4

Berlin Festival 1929

4 June, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 5

7 June, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Ria Ginster, Hilde Ellger, Hans Fidesser, Ludwig Hofmann & Bruno Kittel choir)

13 June, Berlin (Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt)

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro (Lotte Schöne, Margret Pfahl, Nelly Merz, Hans Reinmar, Alexander Kipnis)

18 June, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Sigrid Onegin, Alexander Kipnis, Friedrich Schorr)

This Festival was quite extraordinary: Toscanini was there, with the Ensemble of the Milan Teatro alla Scala (Falstaff, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, il Trovatore, Manon Lescaut and Aida), Richard Strauss conducted five operas of his, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Georges Szell, Georges Sebastian and others made their appearance. Fritz Lang's movie, Die Frau im Mond was also premiered.

25 June, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Beethoven: Fidelio (gala evening) (Gertrud Bindernagel, Gussa Heiken, Karl Erb, Fritz Bartling, Hans Bahling)

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Season 1929 - 1930

15 September, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Wagner: Lohengrin (gala evening) (Gertrud Bindernagel, Siegfried Tappolet, Adolf Loeltgen, Margarete Teschemacher, Hilde Ebler, Hans Bahling)

9, 11 & 16 October, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Lohengrin

Maria Müller, Barbara Kemp, Hans Fidesser, Alexander Kipnis (on 9) - Alexander Kipnis, Hans Fidesser, Maria Müller, Barbara Kemp (on 11) - Maria Müller, Barbara Kemp, Hans Fidesser, Ludwig Hofmann (on 16)

18 October, Hamburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

20 & 21 October, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Vladimir Horowitz)

22 October, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Lohengrin (Ludwig Hofmann, Maria Müller, Hans Fidesser, Barbara Kemp)

26 & 27 October, Vienna - WP

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

2 & 3 November, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Arthur Schnabel) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

6 November, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Gunnar Graarud, Josef von Manowarda, Hélène Wildbrunn, Rosette Anday)

10 & 11 November, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (Orchestration by Schoenberg) (UA) - Busoni: Violin concerto (Adolf Busch) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

12 November, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Lohengrin (Maria Müller, Barbara Kemp, Hans Fidesser, Gotthold Dieter, Ludwig Hofmann, Edwin Heyer)

14 November, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Gunnar Graarud, Josef von Manowarda, Hélène Wildbrunn, Rosette Anday, Hermann Gallos)

16 & 17 November, Vienna - WP

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody - Prokoviev: le Pas d'acier - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

24 & 25 November, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, Aria (Maria Ivogün) - Reznicek: Tanz-Sinfonie - Debussy: l'enfant prodigue, Aria (Maria Ivogün) - Saint-Saens: Thème varié - Liszt: les Préludes

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic

26 November, Hanover

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

27 November, Elberfeld

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Stravinsky: The Firebird

28 November, Düsseldorf

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

29 November, Cologne

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Stravinsky: The Firebird

1 December, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

2 December, Bristol & 3 December, London (Queen's Hall)

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

5 December, Bremen

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachstraum, Overture - Schumann: Symphonies No. 1 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

6 December, Hamburg - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Respighi: Feste Romane - Schumann: Symphony No. 1

8 & 9 December, Berlin (Philharmonic) - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 20 (Edwin Fischer) - Respighi: Feste Romane

10 December, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Barbara Kemp, Sigrid Onegin, Lauritz Melchior, Ludwig Hofmann)

12 December, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Lohengrin (Maria Müller, Anny Helm, Hans Fidesser, Ludwig Hofmann, Gotthold Dieter)

14 & 15 December, Vienna - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Respighi: Feste Romane - Schumann: Symphony No. 1

5 & 11 January, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Wagner: Lohengrin (Maria Müller, Anny Helm, Hans Fidesser, Jaro Prohaska, L. Hofmann, Herbert Janssen (on 5) - Maria Müller, Barbara Kemp, Fidesser, Prohaska, Hofmann, Edwin Heyer (on 11))

19 & 20 January, Berlin - BPO

Kletzki: Variations for orchestra - Schumann: Piano concerto (Alfred Cortot) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

2 & 3 February, Berlin - BPO

Georg Schumann: Variationen über "Gestern abend war Vetter Michel da" (UA) - Sigwart: Hektors Bestattung, melodrama (Ludwig Wüllner) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

8 & 9 February, Vienna - WP

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Carl Prohaska: Passacaglia - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

12 February, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Mia Peltenburg, Rosette Anday, Karl Erb, Richard Mayr & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

15 & 16 February, Vienna - WP

Reger: Variotionen über ein Thema von Mozart - Karl Weigl: Intermezzo fantastique - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

21 February, Hamburg - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Pfitzner: Violin concerto (Riele Queling)

23 & 24 February, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Joseph Szigeti) - Stravinsky: the Rite of Spring

27 February, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Mozart: le Nozze di Figaro (Maria Ivogün, Reinhardt, Perras, Reinmar, Baumann, Gombert)

2 & 3 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Mia Peltenburg, Rosette Anday, Karl Erb, Fred Drissen and Bruno Kittel choir)

6 March, Leipzig - GOL

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

7 March, Hamburg - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture & Symphony No. 4

9 & 10 March, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Ah Perfido (Mafalda Salvatini) - Bloch: Schelomo (Nicolai Graudan, alto) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

15 & 16 March, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

18 March, Budapest - WP

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

19 March, Budapest - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

22 & 23 March, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Marie Gerhardt, Enid Szantho, Kolomon Pataky, Richard Mayr)

28 March, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Hindemith: Konzertmusik (UA) (Paul Hindemith, alto) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

30 & 31 March, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Hindemith: Konzertmusik (Paul Hindemith, alto) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

13 April, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Rose Pauly, Käte Heidersbach, Maria Ivogün, Hans Reinmar, Allexander Kipnis, Ludwig Hofmann)

13 & 14 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

15 & 17 April, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Pauly, Heidersbach, Ivogün, Reinmar, Kipnis, Hofmann)

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

23 April, Munich

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

24 April, Stuttgart

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

25 April, Cologne

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schubert: Rosamunde, Interlude & Symphony No. 8 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

27 April, London

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Strauss: Don Juan - J. Strauss: an der schönen blauen Donau

29 April, London

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Schubert: Rosamunde, Interlude and ballet music - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

4 May, Berlin - BPO

Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

5 May, Halle-Saale

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

6 May, Essen

Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

7 May, Frankfurt am Main

Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra

8 May, Mannheim

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

9 May, Ludwigshafen

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

10 May, Heildelberg

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

11 May, Baden-Baden

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

* 12 May: Furtwängler resigns from his post as Director of the Vienna Philharmonic, a real sensation in the musical circles

13 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

15 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

16 May, Lyon (Salle Rameau)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

17 May, Geneva

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

18 May, Montreux

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

19 May, Basel

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

20 May, Freiburg

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

21 May, Zurich

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

22 May, Innsbruck

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

24 May, Munich

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

25 May, Augsburg

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

26 May, Jena

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

2 June, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Mia Peltenburg, Rosette Anday, Karl Erb, Fred Drissen & Bruno Kittel choir)

13 June, Berlin (Städtische Oper) - Berliner Kunstwochen

Beethoven: Fidelio (Gotthold Ditter, Ludwig Hofmann, Karl Erb, Gertrud Bindernagel, Alexander Kipnis)

16 June, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Ria Ginster, Hilde Helger, Max Lorenz, Hermann Schey and Bruno Kittel choir )

17 June, Berlin (Städtische Oper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (G. Ditter, L. Hofmann, K. Erb, G. Bindernagel, A. Kipnis, de Garmo)

20 June, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 7 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

25 June, Leipzig - GOL

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

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Season 1930 - 1931

5 & 6 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Mahler: 5 Lieder (Maria Müller) - Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

7 October, Berlin & 8 October, Dresden - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Leonore II & Symphony No. 5

17 October, Hamburg - BPO

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage (*), Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

* In G. Gefen's book published by Belfond, this work was translated with «les nouvelles du Tage» instead of «nouvelles du jour»!

19 & 20 October, Berlin - BPO

Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Misha Elman) - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, three excerpts

6 November, Magdeburg - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Schumann: Piano concerto (Meta Hagedorn-Chevalley) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

7 November, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Karl Marx: Concerto for two violins (Henry Holst, Simon Goldberg) - Ravel: Bolero

9 & 10 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto (Bronislav Huberman) - Ravel: Bolero

12 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, 3 excerpts

* On November 15 the music magazine «Rheinische Musik-und Theater-Zeitung» published an article by Furtwängler called «Über Konzert-Programme» (about concert programmes)

24 November, Berlin - BPO

a) afternoon performance:

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 & Nozze di Figaro, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

b) evening performance:

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Pfitzner: das dunkle Reich, choral fantasy - Mozart: Requiem

Margarete Klose, Mia Peltenburg, Hermann Schey, Hans Fidesser & Bruno Kittel choir

30 November & 1 December, Berlin - BPO

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Marx: Concerto for two violins (Henry Holst, Simon Goldberg) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

11 December, Lübeck - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Violin concerto (Riele Queling) & Symphony No. 4

12 December, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Trapp: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

14 & 15 December, Berlin - BPO

Trapp: Symphony No. 4 - Bach: Concerto for 4 pianos (Georg Bertram, Bruno Eisler, Franz Osborn, Leonid Kreutzer ) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

18 & 19 January, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: die Schöpfung (Mia Peltenburg, Marcel Wittrisch, Hermann Schey & Bruno Kittel choir)

25 & 26 January, Berlin - BPO

Kodaly: Sommernacht/Summer night (UA) - Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione (Gaspar Cassado) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

28 January, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Stravinsky: The Firebird

29 January, Dresden - BPO

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Stravinsky: The Firebird

30 January, Breslau - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

5 February, Leipzig - GOL

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Toch: kleine Theater Suite - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

6 February, Hamburg - BPO

Toch: kleine Theater Suite - Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

8 & 9 February, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Franck: Variations symphoniques (Walter Gieseking) - Toch: kleine Theater Suite - Strauss: Burleske (Walter Gieseking) - Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1

* The Deutsche Tonkünstler-Zeitung dated February 20 published a text by Furtwängler: « Ein gutes Konzertprogramm: was heute darunter versteht » (A good concert programme: what that means today)

22 & 23 February, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride, 2 Arias (Heinrich Schlusnus) - Haendel: Arioso (Heinrich Schlusnus) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

24 February, Hanover

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

25 February, Elberfeld

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

26 February, Brussels

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphonies No. 4 and 5

27 February, Brussels

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 March, London

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

2 March, Birmingham

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

3 March, Liverpool

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Sibelius: En Saga - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

4 March, Newcastle

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

5 March, Glasgow

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Sibelius: En Saga - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

* In a letter dated March 5 to Ludwig Curtius, Furtwängler wrote: "I am touring Great Britain with my orchestra. The country is grey and endlessly cloudy. Mornings are for travelling and afternoon for rehearsing. Today we are playing in Glasgow, tomorrow in Dundee, the day after tomorrow in Edinburgh, then in London and Amsterdam. We do all this to earn money but it is just about worth it."

6 March, Dundee

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Sibelius: en Saga - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

7 March, Edinburgh & 8 March, London

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Sibelius: En Saga - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, 2 excerpts

9 March, Den Haag

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

10 March, Amsterdam

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

11 March, Bremen

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

13 March, Hamburg

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Tanejew: Suite concertante for violin and orchestra (Georg Kulenkampff) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 & 16 March, Berlin - BPO

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Tanejew: Suite concertante for violin and orchestra (Georg Kulenkampff) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

21 & 22 March, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 9 (M. Gerhart, G. Runger, F. Krauss, R. Mayr)

29 & 30 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Overture; Great Fugue; Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 3

18 Avril, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Bach: Concerto for two violins (Carl Flesch, Gustav Havemann) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

19 Avril, Berlin - BPO

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic

22 April, Prague

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

23 April, Halle-Saale

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

24 April, Leipzig

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

25 April, Braunschweig

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

26 April, Mülheim

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

27 April, Essen

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, marche hongroise) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

28 April, Düsseldorf

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, marche hongroise) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

29 April, Cologne

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

30 April, Frankfurt am Main

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 May, Heidelberg

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Beethoven: Leonore II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

2 May, Ludwigshafen

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

3 May, Baden-Baden

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, Marche hongroise) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

5 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Stravinsky: The Firebid - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, Marche hongroise) (bis)

7 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

8 May, Lyon (Salle Rameau)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise (bis)

9 May, Marseille (Salle Prat)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, Marche hongroise)

11 May, Geneva

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Danse des Sylphes, Marche hongroise)

12 May, Zurich

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

13 May, Freiburg

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 May, Stuttgart

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

16 May, Munich

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17 May, Augsburg

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II (other works unknown)

18 May, Jena

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

21 May, Görlitz

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 - Karl Marx: Concerto for two violins (Holst, Goldberg) - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Schumann: Symphony No. 4

24 May, Görlitz

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Fantasy for piano and choir (Edwin Fischer), Piano concerto No. 5 (Edwin Fischer) & Symphony No. 5

27 May, Kiel

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Bayreuth Festival
(the Festival Orchestra)

23 July & 3 August

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Lauritz Melchior, Rudolf Bockelmann, Josef von Manowarda)

4 August (Memorial Siegfried Wagner)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

* Karl Elmendorff conducted Liszt's Orpheus and Siegfried Wagner's Prelude of die Heilige Linde. The Fränkischer Kurier published the following review: "On August 4 in the morning, at the beginning of the orchestral rehearsal of the concert in the honour of Cosima and Siegfried Wagner, an important event took place. After a few bars of the Faust overture, Toscanini laid down his baton without saying a word, continued conducting until the beginning of the Allegro and then abruptly left the hall. He found that the orchestral performance of this work lacked precision but this time he was wrong. In fact, the acoustics of the Festspielhaus were bad due the small number of listeners. Toscanini thought that these problems of acoustics were due to a lack of attention of the orchestra. After Toscanini's departure, several musicians started to leave the theatre and it was Furtwängler who tried to prevent them from doing so and personally led them back into the concert hall"

18 August

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Gotthelf Pistor, Rudolf Bockelmann, Josef von Manowarda)

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Season 1931 - 1932

6 October, Mannheim (Hoftheater Orchester)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Sekles: Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

11 & 12 October, Berlin - BPO

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Glazunov: Violin concerto (Erica Morini) - Stravinsky: Petrushka

23 October, Hamburg - BPO

Vogel: 2 Studies for orchestra - Dvorak: Cello concerto (Joseph Schuster) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

25 & 26 October, Berlin - BPO

Vogel: 2 Studies for orchestra - Dvorak: Cello concerto (Nathan Milstein) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

* On November 1, the Vossische Zeitung published Furtwängler's text: «Überdruss an der Musik!» (Overdose of music). The second part was published in the same paper on 5.1.1932 with the title: «Wird die Musik weiterleben als Notwendigkeit?» (Will music continue to exist as a necessity?)

12 November, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Pfitzner: das Herz (UA)

Otto Helgers, Margarete Klose, Fritz Soot, Delia Reinhardt, Walter Grossmann, Kullman, Ruzicka

Note: In the archives of the Berlin Staatsoper there are registers indicating the exact duration of each act of each opera performed. These registers also contain the commentaries of Heinz Tietjen who was the intendant of the opera, some of which are excellent, others quite frankly bad. His comment of the Walküre of May 11 1934 was: «Average - this is not Wagner».

15 & 16 November, Berlin - BPO

Debussy: 3 Nocturnes (with the female choir of the Bruno-Kittel choir) - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 2 (Eduard Erdmann) - Schumann: Konzertstück (Eduard Erdmann) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

17 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Martin Abendroth, Margaret Klose, Fritz Soot, Käte Heidersbach, Theodor Scheidl)

21 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Otto Helgers, Margarete Klose, Fritz Soot, Delia Reinhardt, Walter Grossmann)

24 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

25 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Otto Helgers, Margery Booth, Fritz Soot, Käte Heidersbach, Walter Grossmann)

30 November, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: the Messiah (Mia Peltenburg, Julius Patzak, Hermann Schey, Gusta Hammer& Bruno-Kittel choir)

2 December, Halle-Saale (Grosser Saal des Stadtschützenhauses) - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 99 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique

3 December, Magdeburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 99 - Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

4 December, Hamburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 99 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique - Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

6 &7 December, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 99 - Brahms: Violin concerto (Bronislav Huberman) - Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique - Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

8 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Martin Abendroth, Margarete Klose, Fritz Soot, Käte Heidersbach, Theoodor Scheidl)

15 & 16 December, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Haendel: the Messiah

Mia Peltenburg, Sabine Kalter, Koloman von Pataky, Josef von Manowarda & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

18 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Martin Abendroth, Margarete Klose, Fritz Soot, Reinhardt, Walter Grossmann)

20 & 21 December, Berlin - BPO

Graener: die Flöte von Sans-souci, suite for chamber orchestra - Schumann: Piano concerto (Wilhelm Kempff) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

14 January, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Martin Abendroth, Magarete Klose, Fritz Soot, Reinhardt, Theodor Scheidl)

19 January, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Beethoven: Great Fugue - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

21 January, Hanover - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Mozart: il re pastore, Aria (Adelheid Armhold) - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Adelheid Armhold)

22 January, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Adelheid Armhold)

23 January, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Abendroth, Klose, Soot, Reinhardt, Scheidl)

24 & 25 January, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Mozart: il re pastore, Aria (Adelheid Armhold) - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Adelheid Armhold)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

26 January, Bielefeld

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

27 January, Dortmund

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

28 January, Brussels

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

29 January, Brussels

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude & der fliegende Holländer, Overture

1 February, London (Queen's Hall)

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

2 February, London (Queen's Hall)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Violin concerto (Bronislav Huberman) & Symphony No. 1

3 February, Liverpool

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Great Fugue & Symphony No. 5

4 February, London (Queen's Hall)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Great Fugue & Symphony No. 5

5 February, Glasgow

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

6 February, Edinburgh

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Beethoven: Great Fugue - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

7 February, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & der fliegende Holländer, overture - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

8 February, Den Haag & 9 February, Amsterdam

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Great Fugue & Symphony No. 5

11 February, Bremen

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 & Great Fugue - Wagner: Tristan un Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

12 February, Hamburg

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 3 (Leonid Kreutzer) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

14 & 15 February, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 1 (Arthur Schnabel) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

16 February, Berlin - BPO

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & der fliegende Holländer, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

18 February, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 February, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Abendroth, Klose, Soot, Reinhardt, Grossmann)

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5 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Pfitzner: das Herz (Abendroth, Klose, Soot, Heidersbach, Scheidl)

6 & 7 March, Berlin - BPO

Gabrieli: Sonata pian e forte (instrumentation of H. Unger) - Haydn: Nelson Mass, Aria: "Gesang von der Schlacht am Nil » (Lucien Graveure) - Boccherini: Cello concerto (Joseph Schuster) - Haendel: 2 Arias: "Ombra May fu" & Care selve" (Lucien Graveure) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

9 March, Leipzig - GOL

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 & Rosamunde, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

15 March, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 102 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

16 March, Breslau - BPO

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

17 March, Magdeburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 102 - Debussy: Nocturnes, (Nuages, Fêtes) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

18 March, Hamburg - BPO

Gabrieli: Sonata pian e forte - Haydn: Symphony No. 102 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

20 & 21 March, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 102 - Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Strauss: Don Juan

* Ravel conducted his concerto in G with Marguerite Long as soloist

* The Vossische Zeitung of March 20 published Furtwängler's text: « Was bedeutet mir Goethe ? » (What does Goethe mean to me?)

31 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Gotthelf Pistor, Alexander Kipnis, Frida Leider, Herbert Janssen, Karin Branzell)

* The Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung of March 31 published a text of Furtwängler on Brahms

1 April, Hamburg - BPO

Max Ettinger: Altenglische Suite - Beethoven: Great Fugue & Symphony No. 7

3 & 4 April, Berlin - BPO

Max Ettinger: Altenglische Suite - Bach: Concerto for 3 pianos (Georg Bertram, Bruno Eisner, Franz Osborn) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

5 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Fritz Soot, Alexander Kipnis, Frida Leider, Herbert Janssen, Karin Branzell)

9 & 10 April, Vienna - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

12 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Soot, Emmanuel List, Leider, Prohaska, Branzell)

Concerts for the 50 years of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

14 & 15 April

Bach: Suite No. 2 (Albert Harzer, flute) - Hindemith: Philharmonisches Konzert (UA) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

* For the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra's fiftieth anniversary, a ceremony was held during which Furtwängler received from President Hindenburg the Golden Goethe Medal.

17 & 18 (+) April

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Ria Ginster, Frieda Dierolf, Helge Roswaenge, Rudolf Bockelmann & Bruno-Kittel choir )

(+) Broadcasted live

* On April 10 and 15 the Berliner Tageblatt published a text of Furtwängler called: «Bemerkungen zur Darstellung alter Musik » (some remarks on how to perform ancient music) in which he wrote: "music mustn't be seen but heard". The Vossische Zeitung (19 April) published another text by Furtwängler: «Die Klassiker in der Musik-Krise» (the Classics in the crisis of music)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
for its 50th anniversary

21 April, Düsseldorf

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé, second Suite - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

22 April, Elberfeld

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, 2 excerpts & le Carnaval Romain - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

23 April, Cologne

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts & le Carnaval Romain - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

24 April, Neunkirchen

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé, second Suite - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

26 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain & Romeo and Juliet, 2 excerpts - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

28 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé, second Suite - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod; Tannhäuser, Overture & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

29 April, Strasburg (Palais des Fêtes)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture and Symphony No. 7 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture (bis)

30 April, Freiburg

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

2 May, Turin (Teatro Regio)

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture (bis)

4 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

6 May, Rome (Sala dell'Augusteo)

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Weber: der Freischütz (bis)

8 May, Rome (Sala dell'Augusteo)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

9 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

10 May, Turin (Teatro Regio)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

11 May, Milan (Teatro alla Scala)

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Hindemith: Neues vom Tage, Overture - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

12 May, Milan (Teatro alla Scala)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

14 May, Zurich

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 May, Vevey

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

17 May, Geneva

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

18 May, Basel

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

19 May, Baden-Baden

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Debussy: 2 Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

20 May, Stuttgart

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

21 May, Heidelberg

Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain - Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

22 May, Wiesbaden

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

23 May, Frankfurt

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 7

24 May, Halle-Saale

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Berlioz: le Carnaval Romain, Overture - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

7 & 9 June, Paris - Théâtre de l'Opéra

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ( Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Herbert Janssen, Alexander Kipnis)

* On June 10, Furtwängler took part in a private concert in Paris organised by Henry Prunières, director of the Revue Musicale. Among the other participants were Magda Tagliaferro, Claude Delvincourt, Nadia Boulanger, Darius Milhaud, Serge Prokoviev, Edgar Varèse.

* On June 28, the Vossische Zeitung published Furtwängler's text: «Um Bayreuths Zukunft» (About the future of Bayreuth)

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Season 1932 - 1933

7 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Lotte Lehmann)

9 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Lauritz Melchior, Alexander Kipnis, Frida Leider, Rudolf Bockelmann)

14 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Käte Heidersbach)

16 & 17 October, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Schumann: Cello concerto (Gregor Piatigorski) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

21 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Käte Heidersbach)

25 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Lotte Lehmann, F. Wolff, G. Schützendorff)

27 October, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante K 364 (Paul Hindemith, alto) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Paul Hindemith, alto)

28 October, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante KV 364 (Paul Hindemith, alto) - Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Paul Hindemith, alto)

30 & 31 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Prokoviev: Piano concerto No. 5 (Prokoviev) (UA) - Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Paul Hindemith, alto)

2 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Käte Heidersbach)

6 & 7 November, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Johannes-Passion (Ria Ginster, Kerstin Thorborg, Julius Patzak, Bockelmann, Hermann Schey & Bruno Kittel choir)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

9 November, Halle-Saale

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn & Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

10 November, Elberfeld & 11 November, Frankfurt am Main

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn & Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

12 November, Heidelberg

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

13 November, Karlsruhe

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

14 November, Munich

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn & Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 & 20 November, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 7

22 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bockelmann, Kipnis, Janssen, Heidersbach)

24 November, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Overture & Symphony No. 38 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

25 November, Hamburg - BPO

* This concert was cancelled and replaced by a concert of chamber music with soloists of the Philharmonic

27 & 28 November, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - Arias by Durante, Gluck, Giordani and Carissimi (Heinrich Schlusnus) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

29 November, 4 & 9 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Käte Heidersbach)

16 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Emmanuel List, Fritz Krenn, Delia Reinhardt)

18 & 19 December, Berlin - BPO

Karl Marx: Passacaglia for orchestra (UA) - Gluck: les Pélerins de la Mecque, Aria (Maria Ivogün) - Beethoven : an die schöne Schusterin, Aria (Maria Ivogün) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

20 December, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 & Leonore III

Broadcasted live]

26 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Fritz Krenn, Delia Reinhardt)

The second act was broadcasted live

15 January, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jaro Prohaska, Emmanuel List, Herbert Janssen, Delia Reinhardt)

16 January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17 January, Breslau - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

18 January, Dresden - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Coriolan, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

19 January, Leipzig - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

20 January, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

22 & 23 January, Berlin - BPO

Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 3 (Edwin Fischer) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

[January 30: Hitler comes to power]

1 February, Magdeburg - BPO

G. Müller: Variationen und Fuge über ein deutsches Volkslied - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

2 February, Leipzig - BPO

Gottfried Müller: Variationen und Fuge über ein deutsches Volkslied - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

5 & 6 February, Berlin - BPO [broadcasted live]

Gottfried Müller: Variationen und Fuge über ein deutsches Volkslied - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Simon Goldberg) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

7 February, Münster

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

8 February, Dortmund

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Liszt: les Préludes

9 February, Brussels

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Liszt: les Préludes

10 February, Brussels

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

11 February, Antwerp

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Hindemith: Philharmonisches Konzert - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Liszt: les Préludes

13 February, London

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 1 & 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

14 February, London

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Hindemith: Philharmonisches Konzert - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

15 February, Newcastle

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Ettinger: Altenglische Suite - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & Tannhäuser, Overture

16 February, Edinburgh

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

17 February, Manchester

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

18 February, Bristol

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Ettinger: Altenglische Suite - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Liszt: les Préludes - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

19 February, London

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Ettinger: Altenglische Suite - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude - Liszt: les Préludes

21 February, The Hague

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Don Juan - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

22 February, Bielefeld

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Brahms: Tragische Ouvertüre - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

23 February, Hanover & 24 February, Hamburg

Brahms: Tragische Ouvertüre, Piano concerto No. 1 (Alfred Hoehn) & Symphony No. 4

26 & 27 February, Berlin - BPO

Brahms: Tragische Ouvertüre, Violin concerto (Carl Flesch) and Symphony No. 4

4 & 5 March, Vienna - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Heger: Variationen über ein Thema von Verdi - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

12 & 13 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore II - Liszt: Piano concerto No. 1 (Lubka Kolessa) - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & Tannhäuser, Overture (Funeral March from Götterdämmerung on 12)

March 20: a gala evening was held for Hitler's anniversary at the Staatsoper with Gustav Havemann conducting the « Kampfbundorchester » reinforced by the Berlin Philharmonic, altogether 160 musicians.

21 March (*), Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Emmanuel List, Fritz Krenn, Käte Heidersbach)

* called the Day of Potsdam, i.e. the official foundation of the Third Reich. Hitler and Göring attended the performance the third act of which was broadcast live. Initially Elektra was planned with Margarete Klose and Marcel Wittrisch but Goebbels preferred the Meistersinger as being more apt for propaganda, and wrote on that occasion: «The evening ended with a 'magic' performance of the Meistersinger at the Lindenoper...». As for Thomas Mann, he wrote in his diary: «Furtwängler follows the directives of the government and conducts the Meistersinger. Arse-licker.»

22 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Margarete Klose, Rose Pauly, Viorica Ursuleac, Marcel Wittrisch, Walter Grossmann)

23 March, Leipzig - BPO

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Brahms: Violin concerto (Georg Kulenkampff) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

24 March, Hamburg - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Violin concerto (Georg Kulenkampff) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

26 & 27 March, Berlin - BPO

Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No. 3 (UA) - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Elly Ney) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

29 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Klose, Pauly, Ursuleac, Wittrisch)

2 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Fritz Krenn, Tiana Lemnitz)

4 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Klose, Pauly, Ursuleac, Soot)

Broadcasted Live

9 & 10 April, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

12 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Margarete Klose, Anny Münchow, Viorica Ursuleac, Marcel Wittrisch)

* The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 12 published an exchange of letters between Furtwängler and Goebbels.

21 April, Berlin - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

22 April, Essen

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

23 April, Düsseldorf

Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre & Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

24 April, Cologne

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

25 April, Frankfurt am Main

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

26 April, Mannheim (Nibelungensaal des Rosengartens)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude; Tannhäuser, Venusberg music (bacchanalian dance) & der fliegende Holländer, Overture

* The ceremony of Wagner's fiftieth death anniversary was marked by a negative event: Furtwängler was supposed to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic reinforced by the orchestra of the Mannheim Nationaltheater, altogether 170 musicians. The Nazis asked him to dismiss his Jewish first violin, but Furtwängler refused to do so. He then quite demonstratively spent the evening after the concert, with Anna Geissmar, his Jewish secretary's mother, and the authorities considered this a "political act".

Concert programme of 26 April 1933

27 April, Saarbrücken

Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre & Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude & der fliegende Holländer, Overture

28 April, Karlsruhe

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude; Tannhäuser, Venusberg music & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

29 April, Baden-Baden

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Venusberg music & der fliegende Holländer, Overture

2 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

4 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre & Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude; Tannhäuser, Overture & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

6 May, Marseille (Salle Prat)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch; Lohengrin, Prelude; Tannhäuser, Venusberg music; & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

7 May, Lyon (Salle Rameau)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Akademische Ouvertüre; Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch; Lohengrin, Prelude; Tannhäuser, Venusberg music & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

8 May, Geneva

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude - Strauss: Don Juan

9 May, Basel

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Dukas: l'Apprenti sorcier - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

10 May, Freiburg

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

11 May, Zurich

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 7

12 May, Munich

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Leonore II - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Brahms Festival

16 & 17 May, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Adelheid Armhold, Hans-Hermann Nissen & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

19 May, Vienna - WP

Brahms: Tragische Ouvertüre, Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto (Bronislav Huberman, Pablo Casals) & Akademische Ouvertüre

21 May, Vienna - WP

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Piano concerto No. 2 (Arthur Schnabel) & Symphony No. 1

24 May, Berlin (Berliner Kunstwochen) - BPO

Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (E. Fischer) & Symphony No. 1

* On May 28, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the Neue Freie Presse published a text by Furtwängler: "Festvortrag auf Wiener Brahmsfest" (Speech for the Vienna Brahms Festival)

28 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Hans Grahl, Emmanuel List, Frida Leider, Rudolf Bockelmann, Karin Branzell)

30 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Maria Müller)

8 & 10 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Frida Leider, Sabine Kalter, Herbert Janssen, Lauritz Melchior, Alexander Kipnis)

13 & 15 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: die Walküre (Lotte Lehmann, Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr, Alexander Kipnis)

* In his book, Friedrich Herzfeld wrote: «In Paris, the Republican Guard paid Furtwängler a particular tribute. On both occasions he conducted there, a private concert was given in his honour, Furtwängler being the only listener. A suite by Gabriel Pierné was played and Furtwängler thanked with a little speech.»

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Season 1933 - 1934

* In June Furtwängler was nominated first Staatskapellmeister of the Lindenoper for a five-year period. On July 8, Göring nominated him Preussischer Staatsrat (Prussian Council of State) and at the beginning of August, he met Hitler in his residence at the Berghof in Obersalzberg.

9 September, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Käte Heidersbach)

14 September, Berlin

* Celebration for his nomination as Staatsrat: a gala evening was given in his honour and Erich Kleiber conducted Lohengrin at the Lindenoper with Kipnis, Klose, Prohaska, Krenn and Vera Manzinger as soloists. Himmler and Göring attended the performance.

17 September, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bockelmann, Kipnis, Krenn, Heidersbach, Lorenz )

24 September, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Grahl, Kipnis, Leider, Bockelmann, Branzell)

12 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

R. Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Ruth Berglund, Viorica Ursuleac, Käte Heidersbach, Jaro Prohaska, Marcel Wittrisch)

15 & 16 October, Berlin - BPO

Schillings: Oedipus Rex, Prelude - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Walter Gieseking) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

17 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Ruth Berglund, Viorica Ursuleac, Käte Heidersbach, Jaro Prohaska, Charles Kullmann)

18 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Emmanuel List, Fritz Krenn, Max Lorenz, Käte Heidersbach)

20 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Ruth Berglund, Viorica Ursuleac, Käte Heidersbach, Jaro Prohaska, Marcel Wittrisch)

25 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Karl August Neumann, Ruth Berglund, Franziska von Dobay, Suzanne Fischer, Jaro Prohaska, Charles Kullmann)

27 October, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

29 & 30 October, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Goetz: der widerspenstigen Zähmung, Aria (Lotte Lehmann) - Strauss: 3 Lieder (Lotte Lehmann) & Also sprach Zarathustra

31 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Ruth Berglund, Viorica Ursuleac, Käte Heidersbach, Jaro Prohaska, Helge Rosvaenge)

8 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Walter Grossmann, Alexander Kipnis, Herbert Janssen, Max Lorenz, Käte Heidersbach)

11 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Ruth Berglund, Franziska von Dobay, Fischer, Jaro Prohaska, Marcel Wittrisch)

15 November, Berlin (at noon) - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture

* This concert was given in the great hall of the Philharmonic on the occasion of the opening of the Reichskulturkammer: In the second part of the concert, Heinrich Schlusnus sang two lieder by Schubert and Wolf, accompanied at the piano by Franz Rupp, R. Strauss conducted his Festliches Präludium and Bruno Kittel, the choral «Wacht!» from the Meistersinger. As for Goebbels, he held a speech on «die deutsche Kultur vor neuem Anfang» (German culture at a new starting point). The concert was broadcast Live.

15 November, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden) (evening)

Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Ruth Berglund, Franziska von Dobay, Käte Heidersbach, Jaro Prohaska, Marcel Wittrisch)

19 & 20 November, Berlin - BPO

Graener: Sinfonia breve - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Wilhelm Backhaus) & Akademische Ouvertüre

29 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: das Rheingold (Rudolf Bockelmann, Fritz Krenn, Eugen Fuchs, Alexander Kipnis, Margarete Klose)

30 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Walküre (Max Lorenz, Alexander Kipnis, Rudolf Bockelmann, Viorica Ursuleac, Frida Leider,Margarete Klose)

1 December, Hamburg - BPO

Trapp: Symphonische Suite für Orchester, opus 30 - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 1 (Mitja Nikisch) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

3 & 4 December, Berlin - BPO

Trapp: Symphonische Suite für Orchester, opus 30 - Respighi: Concerto Gregoriano (Arrigo Pellicia, violin) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

5 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: das Rheingold (Rudolf Bockelmann, Fritz Krenn, Eugen Fuchs, Alexander Kipnis, Margarete Klose)

6 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Walküre (Max Lorenz, Alexander Kipnis, Rudolf Bockelmann, Viorica Ursuleac, Frida Leider, Margarete Klose)

8 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Neumann, Ruth Berglund, Viorica Ursuleac, Käte Heidersbach, Jaro Prohaska)

11 December, Berlin (Kapelle der Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore II - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

14 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: das Rheingold (Rudolf Bockelmann, Fritz Krenn, Fritz Soot, Alexander Kipnis, Margarete Klose)

15 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Walküre (F. Wolff, Alexander Kipnis, Rudolf Bockelmann, Delia Reinhardt, Frida Leider, Margarete Klose)

17 & 18 December, Berlin - BPO

Debussy: la Mer - Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins (Alma Moodie, Riele Queling) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

19 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Lauritz Melchior, Alexander Kipnis, Frida Leider, Rudolf Bockelmann, Margarete Klose)

11 January, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Walküre (Franz Völker, Rudolf Bockelmann, Viorica Ursuleac, Frida Leider, Margarete Klose)

12 January, Hamburg - BPO

Siegfried Walther Müller: heitere Musik - Bach: Violin concerto No. 1 (Alma Moodie) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

14 & 15 January, Berlin - BPO

Siegfried Walther Müller: heitere Musik - Méhul: Joseph en Egypte, Aria (Franz Völker) - Weber: der Freischütz, Aria (Franz Völker) - Haydn: die Schöpfung, Aria (Franz Völker) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

16 January, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

17 January, Dresden

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

18 January, Leipzig

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

19 January, Magdeburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

20 January, Hanover

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

22 January, London (Queen's Hall)

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

23 January, London (Queen's Hall)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

24 January, Newcastle

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Strauss: Don Juan, Divertimento (suite after Couperin) & Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

25 January, Glasgow

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture

26 January, Manchester

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Strauss: Divertimento & Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

27 January, Bristol

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Strauss: Divertimento & Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

28 January, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung & Divertimento

30 January, The Hague

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

31 January, Brussels

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Leonore II - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

1 February, Antwerp

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

2 February, Dortmund

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Divertimento & Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

3 February, Elberfeld

Beethoven: Leonore II - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & Akademische Ouvertüre

4 February, Essen

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & Akademische Ouvertüre

5 February, Bielefeld

Bach: Suite No. 3 -Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

11 & 12 February, Berlin - BPO

8 Schumann chorals for female singers orchestrated by Pfitzner (Bruno Kittel choir) - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum (Overture, Nocturne, Scherzo) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

* The paper der Angriff omitted the name of Mendelssohn... The review Signale wrote: «We thank Furtwängler for his performance of this interesting work (Pfitzner). Under his sensitive and masterful guidance, the Philharmonic and the Kittel choir achieved the highest degree of perfection. This will remain an unforgettable evening.»

14 February, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Margarete Klose, Rose Pauly, Viorica Ursuleac, Fritz Soot, Walter Grossmann)

16 February, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden (Gala evening)

Strauss: Arabella (Krenn, Berglund, Ursuleac, Heidersbach, Prohaska, Wittrisch)

18 February, Berlin - BPO (Concert for the Day of the German composer)

Schillings: Ingwelde, Prelude - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

* At this concert, Hindemith conducted his own Concertante Musik

20 February, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Grossmann, Kipnis, Krenn, Heidersbach)

21 February, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Klose, Pauly, Ursuleac, Soot, Grossmann)

23 February, Hamburg - BPO

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Pfitzner: Symphony opus 36a - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

25 & 26 February, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Pfitzner: Symphony opus 36a - Schumann: Piano concerto (Edwin Fischer) - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral March

28 February, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Krenn, Berglund, Ursuleac, Heidersbach, Prohaska, Rosvaenge)

1 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Klose, Pauly, Ursuleac, Soot, Grossmann)

4 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Grahl, Kipnis, Anny Konetzni, Janssen, Klose)

8 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Krenn, Berglund, Ursuleac, Heidersbach, Prohaska, Kullmann)

11 & 12 March, Berlin - BPO

Hindemith: Mathis der Maler, 3 symphonic excerpts (UA) - C.P.E. Bach: Cello concerto (Paul Grümmer) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

18 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Krenn, Berglund, Dobay, Fischer, Prohaska, Wittrisch)

20 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Weber: der Freischütz (Janssen, Prohaska, Maria Müller, Erna Berger, Michael Bohnen, Marcel Wittrisch)

21 March, Halle-Saale - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 5

22 March, Leipzig - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Walter Rehberg) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

23 March, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 5

24 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Weber: der Freischütz (Janssen, Grossmann, Müller, Berger, Bohnen, Wittrisch)

25 & 26 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Coriolan & Symphony No. 5

27 March, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Grossmann, Kipnis, Fuchs, Janssen, Heidersbach)

28 March & 3 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Weber: der Freischütz (Janssen, Grossmann, Müller, Berger, Bohnen, Wittrisch)

4 April, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Grahl, Kipnis, A. Konetzni, Janssen, Klose)

7 & 8 April, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (E. Schumann, Enid Szantho, Maikl, H. Duhan)

11 April, Berlin - BPO (popular concert)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Great Fugue & Leonore Overture No. III - Strauss: Divertimento (Suite after Couperin) - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & der fliegende Holländer, Overture

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

12 April, Weimar

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

13 April, Düsseldorf

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Great Fugue and Leonore Overture No. III - Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

14 April, Cologne

Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra - Beethoven: Great Fugue and Symphony No. 5

15 April, Mühlheim

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

17 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante défunte - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra - Debussy: Fêtes (bis)

19 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Great Fugue & Leonore Overture No. III - Wagner: Götterdammerung, Funeral March; Siegfried-Idyll & der fliegende Holländer, Overture - Debussy: Fêtes (bis)

20 April, Lyon (Salle Rameau)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Prelude (bis)

21 April, Marseille (Salle Prat)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Strauss: Divertimento - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

22 April, Nice (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

24 April, Rome (Sala dell'Augusteo)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

* On April 25, he met Mussolini at Palazzo Venezia, which infuriated Toscanini

26 April, Rome (Sala dell'Augusteo)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

27 April, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

29 April, Baden-Baden

Beethoven: Great Fugue - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8

30 April, Neunkirchen

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

1 May, Luxemburg

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude; Siegfried-Idyll; der fliegende Holländer, Overture & Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

2 May, Frankfurt am Main

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

3 May, Heidelberg

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Leonore III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

4 May, Stuttgart

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

5 May, Zurich

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

7 May, Munich

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

8 May, Bamberg

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

9 May, Jena

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

10 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: das Rheingold (Bockelmann, Krenn, Fuchs, Klose)

11 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Walküre (Wolff, Helgers, Bockelmann, Müller, Leider)

15 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Weber: der Freischütz (Grossmann, Müller, Berger, Bohnen, Wittrisch)

16 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bockelmann, Ivar Andresen, Fuchs, Krenn, Lorenz, Heidersbach)

18 May, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

23 May, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Melchior, Andresen, Leider, Prohaska, Branzell)

29 & 31 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Leider, Melchior, Kipnis)

5 & 7 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Lehmann, Berglund, Lorenz, Bockelmann, Kipnis)

* Toscanini who was in Paris for four concerts with the Straram Orchestra, attended the performance of the Meistersinger. Furtwängler and his secretary Bertha Geissmar, on the other hand, attended Toscanini's concert.

10 June, Vienna - WP

Festival R. Strauss: Don Juan, 4 Lieder (Elisabeth Schumann) & ein Heldenleben

15 June, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Elektra (Klose, Maria Rössler-Keuschnigg, Viorica Ursuleac, Fritz Soot, Grossmann)

17 June, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Strauss: Arabella (Fritz Krenn, Else Ruzicka-Tegetthoff, Viorica Ursuleac, Ilse Koegel, Jaro Prohaska, marcel Wittrisch)

* In August, he stayed first in Gorzno (Garzyn) in Poland, from where he wrote to Irme Schwab: «The landscape here is superb and I taking daily one or two-hour walks. I don't want to see nor hear anything from the outside world, I simply want to complete my work (the violin sonata).», then he travelled with his wife to his chalet (called «Acta Silva») near Saint Moritz, in the Swiss Engadine.

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Season 1934 - 1935

20 September, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Theo Strack, Ludwig Hofmann, Frida Leider, Herbert Janssen, Maargarete Klose)

26 September, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Weber: der Freischütz (Herbert Janssen, Wilhelm Hiller, Tiana Lemnitz, Berger,Michael Bohnen, Marcel Wittrisch)

28 September, Stettin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

30 September & 1 October, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Bach: Cantata « non sa che sia dolore » (Elisabeth Rethberg) - Mozart: il re pastore, Aria (Elisabeth Rethberg) - Weber: Oberon, Aria and Overture

6 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Siegfried (Max Lorenz, Erich Zimmermann, Rudolf Bockelmann, Frida Leider, Margarete Klose)

16 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Max Lorenz, Herbert Janssen, Ludwig Hofmann, Frida Leider)

20, 21, 24 & 26 October, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

a) Bockelmann, Krenn, Fuchs, Zimmermann, Klose

b) Völker, Kipnis, Bockelmann, Müller, Leider, Klose

c) Lorenz, Zimmermann, Bockelmann, Leider, Klose

d) Lorenz, Janssen, Hoffmann, Fuchs, Leider

28 & 29 October, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 7 - Pfitzner: Piano concerto (Walter Gieseking) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

1 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Weber: der Freischütz (Janssen, W. Hiller, Lemnitz, Berger, Bohnen, Wittrisch)

11 & 12 November, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Symphony No. 1 - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 2 (Alfred Cortot) - Ravel: la Valse

* Goebbels and the French Ambassador André François-Poncet attended the concert

14, 15, 18 & 21 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

a) Bockelmann, Krenn, Fuchs, Zimmermann, Klose, Lemnitz

b) Völker, Kipnis, Bockelmann, Ursuleac, Leider, Klose

c) Lorenz, Zimmermann, Bockelmann, Leider, Margarethe Arndt-Ober, Fuchs

d) Lorenz, Janssen, Hoffmann, Fuchs, Leider, Heidersbach, Klose

23 November, Hamburg - BPO

Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Pfitzner: Piano concerto (Eduard Erdmann)

25 & 26 November, Berlin - BPO

Kaminski: dorische Musik - Bach: Violin concerto No. 1 (Zino Francescatti) - Paganini: Violin concerto No.1 (Francescatti) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

In her book "the Baton and the Jackboot", Bertha Geissmar wrote:

«On Sunday November 25 1934 the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung published on the front page 'der Fall Hindemith' (the Hindemith case). That morning a dress rehearsal took place in the Philharmonic hall. When Furtwängler stepped onto the podium, the public got up and started applauding. Twenty minutes elapsed before the concert could start. That same Sunday, Furtwängler was supposed to conduct two concerts, something he avoided as much as he could. That same evening, he gave a performance of Tristan at the Staatsoper. Göring was sitting in his box, Goebbels too was there. As soon as Furtwängler appeared, the same thing happened again as in the morning at the Philharmonic: endless applause. Göring knew what that meant and informed Hitler of this incident».

H. Schönzeler and B. Wessling confirm this but it would seem that Bertha Geissmar is wrong! In fact, according to the archives of the Staatsoper, no Tristan was performed that November 25 but only a performance of Tosca with Jan Kiepura under the baton of Robert Heger. Maybe confusion was made with the Tristan that was given a few days later, on December 2.

Also Heinz Tiessen mentions this incident in his book Eduard Erdmann in seiner Zeit: «The endless applause both at his afternoon concert at the Philharmonic and that evening at the opera, in the presence of Göring and Goebbels, were an open manifestation against the authorities who felt their power undermined».

2 December, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Gotthelf Pistor, Alexander Kipnis, Frida Leider, Herbert Janssen, Margarete Klose)

«The Hindemith Affair»: Furtwängler resigns from all his functions on December 4 and retires to the Bavarian Alps where he starts composing his piano concerto. The news are made public on December 10. As a sign of solidarity, Erich Kleiber immediately cancels the concert he is supposed to give with the Philharmonic on December 5.

6 December: The Völkischer Beobachter publishes an article by Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi theorist: «Aesthetik oder Volkskampf? » (aesthetics or fight of the people?) which appeared also in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of that same date.

On February 28,Wilhelm Furtwängler met Goebbels. On April 9 he also met Hitler and declared that he was ready to resume conducting in Germany. He was given back his passport and could thus take up his tours and fulfil his many engagements.

12 April, Budapest; 13 & 14 April, Vienna - WP

Beethoven Concerts: Egmont, Overture ; Symphonies No. 6 & No. 5

16 & 17 (+) April, Vienna (MVS) - die Wiener Symphoniker

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Mia Peltenburg, Enid Szantho, Julius Patzak, Rudolf Watzke, Josef von Manowarda & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

+ Broadcasted Live by the Austrian radio.

* In the programmes, the orchestra is sometimes called Wiener Symphoniker, sometimes Wiener Symphonie Orchester...

25 April, Berlin; 26 April, Hamburg & 3 May, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

* Rosenberg attended the concert of 25, which ended with a thirty-minutes ovation. Hitler, Göring and his wife and Goebbels attended the concert of May 3. Hitler shook Furtwängler's hand. The press greeted with enthusiasm Furtwängler's "comeback".

20 & 24 May, London (Royal Opera House of Covent Garden) - LPO

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Herbert Janssen, Alexander Kipnis)

30 May & 1 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Frida Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Georg Hann, Emmanuel List)

* On June 1, Furtwängler participated again in a private concert organised by Henry Prunières. Arthur Honegger and Albert Roussel were also present.

4 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: die Walküre (Lotte Lehmann, Frieda Leider, Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr, Alexander Kipnis)

7 June, Munich & 9 June, Stuttgart - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

10 June, Munich (National Theater)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Julius Pölzer, Henny Trundt, Ludwig Weber, Hans Hermann Nissen, Maria Olszewska)

* Hitler attended the performance for the seventieth anniversary of the Premiere of Tristan und Isolde.

16 June, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Gotthelf Pistor, Ludwig Hofmann, Konetzni)

23 June, Hamburg (Staatsoper)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Josef von Manowarda, Max Lorenz, Maria Müller)

* Hitler, Goebbels and Ribbentrop attended this performance given on the occasion of the second Festival of the German Theatre

26 June, Lübeck - BPO

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

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Season 1935 - 1936

8 September, Nürnberg (Opernhaus) - das Theater Orchester

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Karl Kronenberg, Josef von Manowarda, Wilhelm Frantz, Maria Müller)

27 September, Hamburg - BPO

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Pfitzner: Cello concerto (Gaspard Cassado) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

29 & 30 September, Berlin - BPO

Trapp: Concerto for Orchestra (UA) - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 3 (Eduard Erdmann) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

13, 15 & 18 October, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Alexander Sved, Georg Maikl, Anna Bathy - Hilde Konetzni on 18 - , Kerstin Thorborg)

19 & 20 October, Vienna - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

22 & 23 October, Vienna (MVS) - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Jo Vincent, Alexander Sved & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

27, 28 & 30 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Käthe Heidersbach, Gertrude Pitzinger, Walther Ludwig, Rudolf Watzke & Bruno Kittel choir)

7 November, Berlin (Gala evening at the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt with the Staatskapelle Orchestra)

Beethoven: Egmont (Paul Hartmann, Hermine Körner, Käthe Gold)

* Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and Rudolf Hess attended the performance that was staged by Gustav Gründgens

8 November, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Walküre (Max Lorenz, Josef von Manowarda, Jaro Prohaska, Maria Müller, Frida Leider, Margarete Klose)

9 November, Berlin (Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt)

Beethoven: Egmont (see November 7)

24 & 25 November, Berlin - BPO

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 - Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto (Hugo Kolberg) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

26 November, Hanover (Kuppelsaal der Stadthalle)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Concert programme of 26 November 1935

27 November, Elberfeld & 29 November, London (Queen's Hall)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

30 November, London (Queen's Hall)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No 5 - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

1 December, Brighton

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

2 December, Bristol

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

3 December, Birmingham

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Reger: der geigende Eremit (excerpt from the Böcklin suite) - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

4 December, Manchester

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

5 December, Sheffield

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Reger: der geigende Eremit (from the Böcklin Suite) - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

6 December, Newcastle

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Reger: der geigende Eremit - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

7 December, Edinburgh

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

8 December, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Reger: der geigende Eremit (excerpt from the Böcklin suite) - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

10 December, Dortmund

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

11 December, Bielefeld

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

12 December, Bremen

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

13 December, Hamburg

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

15 & 16 December, Berlin - BPO

Pfitzner: das Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Brahms: Violin concerto (Georg Kulenkampff) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

18 December, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Alfred Jerger, Alexander Sved, Georg Maikl, Hilde Konetzni, KerstinThorborg)

25 December, Munich (National Theater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Hans Hermann Nissen, Ludwig Weber, Emil Graf, Cäcilie Reich, Fritz Krauss, Karin Branzell, Georg Hann)

Broadcasted Live

Concert programme of 25 December 1935 - Click on image to enlarge

Programme of the opera performance of 25 December 1935

1 January, Munich (National Theater)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Carl Hartmann, Ludwig Weber, Margarethe Bäumer, Hans Hermann Nissen, Karin Branzell)

Broadcasted Live

4 & 5 January, Vienna & 7 January, Budapest - WP

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

9 January, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Alfred Jerger, Max Lorenz, Alexander Sved, Georg Maikl, Maria Müller)

11 & 12 January, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Anna Bathy, Emilie Rutschka, Kolomon von Pataky, Rudolf Watzke)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

15 January, Halle-Saale

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorpsiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Schumann: Symphony No. 3

16 January, Leipzig

Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Edwin Fischer) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17 January, Magdeburg

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, Three Preludes - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

18 January, Frankfurt am Main

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 January, Weimar

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

20 January, Dresden

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

21 January, Breslau

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

22 January, Warsaw & 23 January, Posen

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

* For Furtwängler's fiftieth birthday on January 26, the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic played him a joke: they exchanged places and instruments to the great mirth of Furtwängler! On the other hand, the Allgemeine Musikzeitung (No. 631), announced that "for his fiftieth anniversary, Adolf Hitler, Dr. Goebbels, H. Göring and PeterRaabe wished Wilhelm Furtwängler happy birthday. The Fuehrer presented him with a signed silver-framed portrait, Goebbels an ivory baton with gold inlays and Göring a wallet. Hans von Benda, in the name of the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic, presented him with the facsimile score of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony."

4 February, Munich (National Theater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Hans Hermann Nissen, Ludwig Weber, Emil Graf, Elisabeth Feuge, Maria Cornelius, etc.)

8 & 9 February, Vienna - WP

Haendel: Concerto Grosso pour 2 violins and cello (Arnold Rosé, F. Mairecker, Buxbaum) - F. Schmidt: Variationen über ein Husarenlied - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

13 & 17 February, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: die Walküre (Franz Völker, Jerger, Maria Müller, Anni Konetzni, Rosette Anday (on February 13) - Franz Völker, Alexander Kipnis, Maria Müller, Anni Konetzni, Kerstin Thorborg (on February 17)

19, 20, 21 & 23 February, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Jo Vincent, Enid Szantho, Karl Erb, Felix Löffel, Fred Drissen and Bruno Kittel choir)

* Furtwängler left for Egypt with his friend John Knittel. On February 27, they took a liner for Venice and arrived in Alexandria, via Brindisi, Athens and Rhodes, on March 5. Back in Naples on March 31.

16 April, Stettin & 17 April, Hamburg - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 & 20 April, Berlin - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

22 April, Düsseldorf

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

23 April, Essen

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & der fliegende Holländer, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

24 April, Cologne

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

25 April, Frankfurt am Main

Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

26 April, Heidelberg

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

27 April, Ludwigshafen

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

28 April, Wiesbaden

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Venusberg music- Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

29 April, Karlsruhe

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

30 April, Baden-Baden

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

2 May, Saarbrücken

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

3 May, Freiburg

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 3

4 May, Stuttgart

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

5 May, Lucerne

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Mozart: Piano concerto No. 23 (Furtwängler) - Beethoven : Symphony No. 7 - Weber: Oberon, Overture (bis)

6 May, Basel

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

7 May, Zurich

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

* A first "Furtwängler Affair" broke out in the Swiss press (two more followed in 1945 and 1948). The communist paper Kämpfer wrote on April 23: "Let them not fool you that Furtwängler comes to Zurich as a musician. He is a very influential person of the Nazi regime. This suffices for us to claim that his coming be cancelled." And on April 27: "Furtwängler is supposed to conduct Tristan and Isolde at the Town Opera on May 24. It would be a lie to say that he comes to Zurich as a musician. He comes as a Nazi agent and his aim is to increase Nazi influence. Once more we repeat: Mr. Furtwängler, there is nothing for you in Switzerland and particularly at the Opera."

8 May, Munich

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 & Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

9 May, Berlin - BPO (Berliner Kunstwochen)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 7

* The Queen of Denmark attended the concert...

19 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra) (rehearsals started on May 11)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Maria Müller, Joel Berglund, Max Lorenz, Jaro Prohaska)

* Toscanini attended the performance.

24 & 26 May, Zurich Stadttheater (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Seibert, Mrakitsch, Leider, Onegin)

28 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Maria Müller, Joel Berglund, Max Lorenz, Jaro Prohaska)

1 June, Berlin - Staatsoper unter den Linden

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rudolf Bockelmann, Josef von Manowarda, Martha Fuchs, Max Lorenz, rich Zimmermann, Käthe Heidersbach)

* From June 2 to 13, Furtwängler is member of a jury of an International Competition in Vienna, with Bruno Walter and Felix Weingartner.

15 June, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Max Lorenz, Ludwig Hofmann, Alexander Sved, Georg Maikl, Lotte Lehmann)

Bayreuth Festival

19, 21 & 30 July

Wagner: Lohengrin (Völker/Lorenz, Maria Müller, Margarete Klose, Josef von Manowarda, Herbert Janssen, Jaro Prohaska)

Concert programme of 19 July 1936 - Click on image to enlarge

Programme of the opera performance of 19 July 1936

20 & 29 July, 18, 27 & 30 August

Wagner: Parsifal (Helge Rosvaenge, Martha Fuchs, Ivar Andressen, Herbert Janssen,Josef von Manowarda)

23, 24, 25 & 27 July

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen (Frida Leider, Maria Müller, Margaret Klose, Max Lorenz, Franz Völker, Rudolf Bockelmann, Josef von Manowarda, Jaro Prohaska)

* Hitler, Goering and Goebbels attended these performances

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* With Hitler's permission, Furtwängler cancelled all his public engagements for five months during the winter Season 1936-1937. He intended to spend this time in total peace and compose.

10 February, Berlin - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

* Hitler, Göring and Goebbels attended the concert. The artistic director of the Philharmonic, Hans von Benda, handed over to Goebbels a cheque of 21065 Mark for the «Winterhilfe» (winter aid).

21 & 22 February, Berlin - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

4 & 5 March, Leipzig (small hall of the Gewandhaus); 8 March, Berlin & 16 March, Munich

Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano K 379 - Beethoven: Sonata op. 30 No. 1 - Furtwängler: Sonata in D minor (UA)

Hugo Kolberg, violin & Furtwängler, piano

20 & 21 March, Vienna - WP

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Arnold Rosé, Wilhelm Furtwängler, J. Niedermaier) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

25 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - London Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Erna Berger, Gertrude Pitzinger, Walther Ludwig, Rudolf Watzke)

10, 11, 13 & 15 April, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

Bockelmann, Janssen, Benno Arnold, Fuchs, Zimmermann, Klose (on April 10)

Völker, Manowarda, Bockelmann, Müller, Leider, Klose (on April 11)

Lorenz, Zimmermann, Bockelmann, Leider, Arndt-Ober (on April 13)

Lorenz, Janssen, Manowarda, Leider, Müller, Klose (on April 15)

Herzfeld wrote in his book:

«Between April 10 and 15, he conducted at the Staatsoper four performances of the Ring. Four days later he performed the Ring in London, on the occasion of King George the Fifth' coronation.»

This is a mistake, because the London Ring started on May 13, i.e. four weeks later!

18 & 19 April, Berlin - BPO [broadcasted Live]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Erna Berger, Gertrude Pitzinger, Walther Ludwig, Rudolf Watzke & Bruno-Kittel choir)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

21 April, Halle-Saale

22 April, Bielefeld

23 April, Dortmund

24 April, Düsseldorf

25 April, Cologne

27 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 - Ravel: la Valse - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture and Venusberg music & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

29 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Till

Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

1 May, London (Queen's Hall) [broadcasteded Live]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Erna Berger, Gertrude Pitzinger, Walther Ludwig, Rudolf Watzke)

2 May, London

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

2 cycles : a) 13, 17, 19 & 21 May - b) 24, 26, 28 & 1 June, London (Royal Opera House of Covent Garden)

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

a) Frida Leider, Maria Müller, Margarete Klose, Franz Völker, Max Lorenz, Rudolf Bockelmann

b) Kirsten Flagstad, Maria Müller, Kerstin Thorborg, Franz Völker, Lauritz Melchior, Rudolf Bockelmann

Bayreuth Festival (the Festspielorchester)

23 July, 1, 5, 11 & 20 August

Wagner: Parsifal (Lorenz, Wolff, Martha Fuchs, Janssen, von Manowarda)

2 cycles : 26, 27, 28 & 29 July - 13, 14, 15 & 16 August

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen (Frida Leider, Maria Müller, Margarete Klose, Max Lorenz, Rudolf Bockelmann)

27 August, Salzburg Festival (for the first time at the Festspielhaus) - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Ria Ginster, Rosette Anday, Helge Roswaenge, Herbert Alsen & choir of the Wiener Staatsoper)

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7 September, Paris (Salle Pleyel) - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Berger, Hochreiter, Ludwig, Watzke & Bruno-Kittel choir)

* According to the press, it wasn't Furtwängler but Hans von Benda who conducted the national hymns.

8 & 11 September, Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées) - Orchestra & Ensemble of the Berlin State Opera (Lindenoper)

Wagner: die Walküre (Frida Leider, Maria Müller,Margaret Klose, Franz Völker, Rudolf Bockelmann)

* Herzfeld wrote: «In Paris, on the occasion of the German cultural week at the Universal Exhibition, Furtwängler gave the hundredth performance of Tristan and Isolde, the Walküre and three concerts, including the Beethoven Ninth with the Berlin Kittel choir.»

15 October, Hamburg & 16, 17, 18 & 19 October Berlin - BPO

Brahms Concerts: Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto (Kulenkampff, Mainardi), Akademische Ouvertüre & Hungarian dances No. 1, 2 & 10

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

26 October, Munich

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 5 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto for piano and orchestra (UA) - (Edwin Fischer) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

27 October, Stuttgart

28 October, Leipzig (great hall of the Gewandhaus)

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic concerto (Edwin Fischer)

29 October, Halle-Saale

30 October, Magdeburg

31 October, 1 & 2 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (E. Fischer)

10 & 13 November, Berlin (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Josef von Manowarda, Tiana Lemnitz, Max Lorenz, Heinrich Schlusnus)

14 & 15 November, Berlin - BPO

F. Schmidt: Variationen über ein Husarenlied - Mozart: Violin concerto K 294a, « Adelaïde » (Erich Röhn) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

16 November, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Josef von Manowarda, Tiana Lemnitz, Max Lorenz, Frida Leider, Hilde Scheppan, Heinrich Schlusnus)

20 & 21 November, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Esther Rethy, Maria von Basilides, Andreas von Rosler, Herbert Alsen)

25 November, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Karl Kammann, Herbert Alsen, Erich Zimmermann, Max Lorenz, Maria Reining)

Broadcasted Live

28 & 29 November, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

* At this concert, Heinrich Kaminski conducted his own piano concerto

30 November & 3 December, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Manowarda, Lemnitz, Lorenz, Domgraf-Fassbaender, Fuchs on November 30; von Manowarda, Lemnitz, Lorenz, Schlusnus on December 3)

7 & 8 December, Vienna (MVS) - die Wiener Symphoniker

Haydn: die Schöpfung (Erna Berger, Koloman von Pataky, Herbert Alsen & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

9 December, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jerger, Alsen, Maikl, Duhan, Lorenz, Maria Reining)

12 December, Vienna - WP (Concert for the 125th anniversary of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 5 & 6

15 December, Budapest (Budapest Philharmonic)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

18 & 19 December, Vienna & 20 December, Budapest - WP

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture - Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, excerpts - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

3 January, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Karl Kamann, Herbert Alsen, August Seider, Maria Reining)

7 January, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

8, 9 & 10 January, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Wilhelm Backhaus)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

12 January, Breslau

13 January, Dresden

14 January, Leipzig

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Kolberg, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

15 January, Weimar

Beethoven: Leonore II - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Kolberg, Harzer) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

16 January, Wuppertal

18 January, Dortmund

19 January, Cologne

21 January, London (Queen's Hall)

Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Kolberg, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

22 January, Bristol & 23 January, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Schubert: Rosamunde (Overture & 2 interludes) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isolde Liebestod - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

25 January, The Hague

26 January, Brussels

Gluck: Alceste - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Kolberg, Harzer) - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isolde Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

27 January, Düsseldorf

28 January, Bielefeld

30 & 31 January, Berlin - BPO

Bartok: Music for strings, percussion and celesta - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - H. Götz: Piano concerto (Eduard Erdmann) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

1 February, Potsdam - BPO

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

2 February, Berlin - BPO (gala evening for the foundation of the Hans Pfitzner-Gesellschaft)

Pfitzner: Symphony opus 36, Herr Oluf (Günther Baum), Three Lieder & Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture

* Pfitzner conducts his own symphony

3 February, Berlin - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Schubert: Rosamunde (2 interludes) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

* It is the first concert for the Hitler Youth ("Hitler-Jugend") in the presence of Rudolf Hess and Baldur von Schirach, the Reich's Youth Minister.

4 March, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Karl Kamann, Herbert Alsen, Josef Kalenberg, Maria Reining, Kerstin Thorborg)

20 March, Berlin (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (J. von Manowarda, Müller, Lorenz, Domgraf-Fassbaender, Arnold)

31 March, Bremen - BPO

1 April, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 3

3, 4 & 5 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II, Symphonies No. 4 & 5

20 April, Vienna (Operntheater)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Ludwig Hofmann, Herbert Alsen, Josef Kalenberg, Maria Reining, Enid Szantho )

22 & 23 April, Berlin - WP in the Philharmonic hall in the presence of Hitler and Goebbels

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - bis: J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

26 April, Wiesbaden

27 April, Heidelberg

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

28 April, Freiburg

30 April, Rome (Teatro Adriano)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

1 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

Broadcasted Live

2 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Broadcasted Live

5 May, Zurich

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

6 May, Basel

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture

8 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Strauss: Don Juan

10 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

2 cycles: a) 18, 20, 24 & 27 May (a) - b) 30 May, 1, 3 & 7 June (b), London (Royal Opera House of Covent Garden)

Wagner: der Ring des Niebelungen

a) Anny and Hilde Konetzni, Thorborg, Melchior, Bockelmann

b) Leider, Lemnitz, Thorborg, Branzell, Melchior

12 & 14 June, Zurich (Stadttheater) - das Tonhalle Orchester

Beethoven: Fidelio (Rothmüller, Stig, Max Hirzel, Hilde Konetzni)

21 & 23 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (Lubin, Klose, Sattler, Janssen)

25 June, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Manowarda, Tiana Lemnitz, Max Lorenz , Hüsch, F. Leider)

27 June, Potsdam - BPO (on the occasion of the Potsdam Music Festival)

Bach: Suite No. 2 (Alfred Harzer, flute) & Concerto for 3 pianos (Edwin Fischer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Eduard Erdmann) - Mozart: Symphony No. 40

Salzburg Festival (WP)

23 July, 10, 19 & 29 August (Festspielhaus)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Maria Reining, Piroska Tutsek, Set Svanholm/August Seider, Karl Kamann/Walther Grossmann, Erich Zimmermann, Herbert Alsen, Fritz Krenn)

28 August, Festspielhaus (WP)

Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

5 September, Nürnberg - WP

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Tiana Lemnitz, Ruth Berglund, Rudolf Bockelmann, Erich Zimmermann, Eugen Fuchs, Josef von Manowarda, etc.)

According to the radio paper Funkstunde, it seems that another performance took place on September 3, the first act of which was to be broadcast on all the German senders; however, this is not an absolute proof because the programs were printed several weeks in advance. One thing is sure though: Furtwängler was supposed to give in Nürnberg a gala performance of the Meistersinger on the occasion of the Nazi Party Convention. The printed program that exists in the archive of the Vienna Philharmonic dates this gala evening as September 5.

The Fränkische Tageszeitung mentions a gala evening (Festaufführung) in the presence of Hitler who applauded frantically at the end of the performance. In his book Kraftprobe, F. Prieberg wrote:

« The performance of the Meistersinger by the Viennese musicians took place in front of the most important Nazi authorities, the diplomatic corps, the ministers of the Reich and a delegation of the Italian fascist party. The performance on September 5 was planned before the political event that took place the following day in the Kongresshalle... »

A few pages later, Prieberg wrote:

« At that time (summer 1939), Hitler was not only preparing the invasion of Poland but also the next Party convention. On July 25, Furtwängler got a phone call from the Chancery telling him to get ready for the Party convention. Otherwise than in 1935 and the preceding year, that meant that Furtwängler should conduct not only the Meistersinger before the convention but also the musical program that was to follow Hitler's speech. The Nürnberg opera announced a «Day for Peace (Friedenstag)» on September 1, with the performance of a suite of dances, and in the meantime the tanks for heading for Poland. On September 3, the opera performed Franz Lehar's operetta the Tsarevitch instead of the Meistersinger. When Hitler realised that the ultimatum of the British and the French could mean war, he cancelled the Party Convention.»

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* On October 9, the Frankfurter Zeitung published Furtwängler's famous text: « Ton und Wort »

19 October, Flensburg - BPO

21(+) & 22 October, Hamburg & 23, 24 & 25 October, Berlin - BPO

Purcell: King Arthur, Suite - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Broadcast Live by Radio Hamburg

On October 21, Karajan conducted for the second time at the Staatsoper Tristan and Isolde. The critic Edwin von der Nüll published in the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag a dithyrambic article:

« At the Staatsoper, the miracle Karajan. What we heard and saw last night goes beyond any imagination. A man aged thirty-three conducted a performance that our 'fifty-year-old conductors' could envy him. Karajan is a present to us. He knows exactly what he wants. Shortly the opera houses all over the world will fight to have him.»

In the Frankfurter Zeitung of December 16 1941, Karl Holl wrote:

« Furtwängler is in the first place a sculptor of sound who is inspired by spiritual forces. Karajan is more of a painter even though he has all the means to create a three-dimensional organic whole. Furtwängler is a passionate and very expressive musician whereas Karajan is introspective but also capable of ecstasy. Furtwängler unveils the drama that lies within music whereas Karajan unveils its epic and lyrical side. »

3 November, Hanover - BPO

4 November, Magdeburg - BPO

5, 6 & 7 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Klavierkonzert No. 4 (Ernest von Dohnanyi) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

8 & 9 November, Leipzig - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

12 & 13 November, Vienna - WP

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

* Seyss-Inquart attended the concert. This important Nazi personality (who was hanged subsequent to the Nuremberg trial), was a great lover of music. In Amsterdam, during the second world war, he faithfully attended Mengelberg's concerts.

16 November, Budapest (Budapest Philharmonic)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Strauss: Don Juan

19 & 20 November, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - F. Schmidt: Notre Dame, excerpts - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

22 & 23 November, Vienna - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Louis van Tulder, Gerhard Hüsch, Jo Vincent, Margaret Klose)

26, 27 & 28 November, Berlin - BPO

Hans Brehme: Triptychon über ein Thema von Haendel - Haydn: Cello concerto (Gaspard Cassado) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

29 November, Dresden - BPO

3 December, Paris (Salle Pleyel) - Orchestre de la Société philharmonique

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture

5 December, Paris (Salle Pleyel) - Orchestre de la Société philharmonique

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

8 December, Kiel - BPO

9 December, Hamburg - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Stravinsky: le baiser de la Fée - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

10 December, Stettin - BPO

11, 12 & 13 December, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Franck: Variations symphoniques (Alfred Cortot) - Stravinsky: le baiser de la Fée - Ravel: Concerto for the left hand (Alfred Cortot) - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, overture

16 December, Pressburg (Bratislava) - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

17 & 18 December, Vienna - WP

Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture & Herr Oluf (Jaro Prohaska) - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

19 December, Munich - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

27 & 29 December, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: Siegfried (Lubin, Bokor, Sattler, Zimmermann, E. Fuchs)

* On January 1, der Westen published a text by Furtwängler: «Volks verbundene Musik» (popular music). This text also appeared on May 3 in the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten and on May 8 in the Kasseler neueste Nachrichten

5 & 6 January, Leipzig - BPO

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

7, 8 & 9 January, Berlin - BPO

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Pfitzner: Duet for violin, cello and orchestra (Hugo Kolberg, Arthur Troester) - Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude & Karfreitagszauber - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra

14 & 15 January, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Edwin Fischer)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

17 January, Breslau

18 January, Dresden

19 January, Berlin

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Edwin Fischer)

20 January, Hamburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Edwin Fischer)

21 January, Bielefeld

22 January, Essen

23 January, Düsseldorf

25 January, Cologne

26 January, Duisburg

27 January, Krefeld

28 January, Mönchengladbach

29 January, Wuppertal

Debussy: Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Schumann: Violin concerto (Siegfried Borries) - Tchaikowsky: Symphony No. 6

31 January, The Hague

1 February, Brussels

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

5, 6 & 7 February, Berlin - BPO

Heinz Schubert: Prelude and Toccata for string orchestra - Schumann: Violin concerto (Siegfried Borries) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

8 February, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Schumann: Violin concerto (Siegfried Borries) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

11 & 12 February, Vienna - WP

Concerts Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Romance No. 2 (Wolfgang Schneiderhan), Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 3

* Between February 18 and 28, Furtwängler was skiing in Zermatt (Switzerland) and on February 20 he was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur by the French Embassy in Berlin. Hitler forbid this information to be made public.

20 April, Halle-Saale - BPO

21 April, Hamburg & 22, 23 & 24 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 3

26 April, Potsdam - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Edwin Fischer)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

27 April, Weimar

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Edwin Fischer)

28 April, Frankfurt am Main

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Edwin Fischer)

29 April, Heidelberg

30 April, Munich

2 May, Stuttgart

3 May, Freiburg

4 May, Basel

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Stravinsky: The Firebird - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

5 May, Karlsruhe

* 2 concerts were to take place on May 7 and 9 in Paris, but they were cancelled by order of the French Government

13 & 14 May, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Helene Fahrni, Martha Rohs, Karl Erb, Rudolf Watzke and Bruno-Kittel choir)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

15 May, Munich , 17(+) & 18 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Hélène Fahrni, Maria Rohs, Karl Erb, Rudolf Watzke, Hans Friedrich Myer & Bruno-Kittel choir)

+ Broadcast Live

21 May, Düsseldorf

31 May, Potsdam - BPO (on the occasion of the Potsdam Music Festival)

Mozart: Piano concerto No. 27 (Wilhelm Kempff) & Concerto for 3 pianos No. 7 (Kempff, Fischer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

* The Finale of the Bach triple concerto was given as a bis. The review Signale doesn't mention the Beethoven symphony... ?

4 & 7 June, Zurich (Stadttheater) - das Tonhalle Orchester

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Joel Berglund, Albert Emmerich, Richard Bitterauf, Set Svanholm, Judith Hellwig)

9 & 13 June, Zurich (Stadttheater) - das Tonhalle Orchester

Wagner: die Walküre (Max Lorenz, Albert Emmerich, Joel Berglund, Germaine Lubin, Kirsten Flagstad, Karin Branzell)

10 June, Zurich, Villa Wesendonck (the Tonhalle Orchester)

Wagner: 5 Wesendonck-Lieder (Kirsten Flagstad instead of Germaine Lubin as planned earlier) & Siegfried-Idyll

* On June 21 and 23, he was to conduct two performances of the Walküre in Paris. They were cancelled by order of the French Government

5 July, Vienna - WP

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

Broadcast by the Deutschland-Sender on July 31 at 8.15 p.m. in a programme called « Erstes gross-deutsches Bruckner-Fest »

* On July 16, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung publishes Furtwängler's text: «Über das Wesen A. Bruckners» (about the nature of A. Bruckner)

* Furtwängler didn't show up at the Salzburg Festival of 1939 (Böhm, Knappertsbusch, Serafin and Clemens Krauss conducted)

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Season 1939 - 1940

13 September, Berlin (Grand Studio of the Funkhaus - concert of the RGG & first collaboration of Furtwängler with the famous sound engineer Friedrich Schnapp) - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso op. 6 No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

1 October, Berlin (Grand Studio of the Funkhaus - concert of the RGG) - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 3

* it is the second evening of the series called « Meisterkonzerte des Grossdeutschen Rundfunks »

14 & 15 October, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17 October, Munich - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

20 October, Hamburg, 22 & 23 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Kurt Hessenberg: Concerto grosso - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

24 October, Dresden - BPO

29, 30 & 31 October, Berlin - BPO

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Franck: Symphony in D minor - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Walter Gieseking) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 November, Halle-Saale - BPO

8 November, Winterthur (das Winterthurer Stadtorchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 ; Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 3

Concert programme of 8 November 1939

14 November, Zurich (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

17 November, Hamburg - BPO

Schumann: Genoveva, Overture - Pfitzner: kleine Sinfonie, opus 44 (UA) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

19, 20 & 21 November, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Genoveva, Overture - Pfitzner: Herr Oluf (Hans Hotter) & kleine Sinfonie opus 44 - Pfitzner: der arme Heinrich, excerpt - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

24, 25 & 26 November, Budapest (Budapest Philharmonic)

Weber: ? - Trapp: two excerpts from opus 36? - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

29 November, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: die Walküre (Max Lorenz, Josef von Manowarda, Karl Kamann, Hilde & Anny Konetzni)

3, 4 & 5 December, Berlin - BPO

Trapp: Concerto No. 2 for orchestra (UA) - Schumann: Piano concerto (Claudio Arrau) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

9 & 10 December, Vienna - WP

Trapp: Concerto No. 2 for orchestra - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & Götterdämmerung, Funeral March - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

11 December, Munich (Deutsches Museum) - WP

Weber: Oberon - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

15 December, Hamburg - BPO

Gottfried Müller: Konzert für grosses Orchester - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

17, 18 & 19 December, Berlin - BPO

Gottfried Müller: Konzert für grosses Orchester - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Georg Kulenkampff) & Symphony No. 7

21 December, Berlin - BPO (concert given at noon in the R. Stock & Co. tank factory)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: die Walküre (Joachim Sattler, Herbert Alsen, Karl Kamann, Hilde & Anni Konetzni)

4 January, Berlin

* Furtwängler held a conference on Bruckner in the Beethovensaal to the benefit of the Lessing Hochschule. The musical part of the evening was confided to Wilhelm Kempff and the Strub Quartet

5, 6, 7 & 8 January, Berlin - BPO

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 - Dvorak: Cello concerto (Tibor de Machula) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

12 January, Copenhagen (Orchestra of the Royal Theatre)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

16 January, Copenhagen (Orchestra of the Royal Theatre)

Beethoven: Symphony No.1, Leonore III & Symphony No. 5

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

18 January, Braunschweig

19 January, Bielefeld

20 January, Wuppertal

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

21 January, Mühlheim (Stadthalle)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso (No.?) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

21 January, Hagen

* No review whatsoever could be found in the local press, which may lead to the assumption that the concert was cancelled and that one concert only took place on January 21, i.e. in Mühleim an der Ruhr.

22 January, Düsseldorf

23 January, Den Haag

25 January, Cologne

26 January, Hamburg

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Rimski-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

28, 29 & 30 January, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Rimski-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

One of these concerts was broadcasted on February 5 at 8 p.m. by Radio Berlin.

31 January, Leipzig - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Smetana: Ma Vlast (the Moldau) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

1 February, Weimar - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Rimski-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

2 February, Chemnitz - BPO

7 February, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Anni Konetzni, Herbert Alsen, Paul Schöffler)

19 February, Munich

Haendel: Sonata in D major - Furtwängler: Sonata in D major (UA) - Beethoven: Sonata opus 24, «Spring»

Kulenkampff, Furtwängler

23 February, Hamburg - BPO

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 10 - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, funeral march - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

25, 26(+) & 27(++) February, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Urfassung) - Gluck: Alceste, Aria (Erna Schlüter) - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral March & die Walküre, Brunnhilde's immolation (Erna Schlüter)

+ Broadcasted Live by Radio Berlin.

++ Broadcasted Live by Radio Bucharest.

28 February, Dresden - BPO

29 February, Leipzig - BPO

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 10 - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral March - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

2 March (3 pm), 3 March (0.30 pm) & 4 March (8 pm), Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Esther Rethy, Mela Bugarinovic, Anton Dermota, Josef von Manowarda & Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)

3 March, Vienna

* He conducts the Zauberflöte overture in the great hall of the Hofburg (concert for the "Amtübernahme des General Referats für Kunst und Kultur durch Gauleiter Burckel")

5 March, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Josef von Manowarda, Anny Konetzni, Paul Schöffler)

14 March, Bremen - BPO

15 March, Hamburg - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Great Fugue & Symphony No. 8

17, 18 & 19 March, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Cavatina from the Quartet opus 130, Great Fugue & Symphony No. 5

One of these concerts was broadcast on April 1 at 7.10 p.m.

20 March, Hanover - BPO

1 April, Oslo (Universitetets Aula) - Philharmonic Orchestra

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (The Tannhäuser overture was added at the last moment)

Broadcasted Live by Radio Oslo

5 April, Copenhagen (Odd fellow Paleets store Sal) - Det Kgl. Kapel (comprising 95 musicians)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 5

* He was to conduct another concert with the same orchestra on April 10. The rehearsal took place on April 9 whilst the Nazis were occupying Denmark.

28 April, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

2 May, Breslau

3 May, Chemnitz

4 May, Prague

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

5 May, Vienna

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

3 & 4 June, Potsdam - BPO (concerts given during the Potsdam Music Festival)

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Bach: Concerto for 3 pianos (Edwin Fischer, Wilhelm Kempff, Wilhelm Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Salzburg Festival

29 & 30 July (Festspielhaus) - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral March - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

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Season 1940 - 1941

2 October, Berlin - BPO (Concert for the red Cross in the presence of Goebbels)

Bach: Concerto for 3 pianos (Wilhelm Kempff, Conrad Hansen, Wilhelm Furtwängler) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

13, 14 & 15 October, Berlin - BPO

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Chopin: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edouard Erdmann) - Pfitzner: Symphony opus 46 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

26 & 27 October, Vienna - WP

Reznicek: Thema und Variationen - Schumann: Piano concerto (Emil von Sauer) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

30 October, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Max Lorenz, Anny Konetzni, Cäcilie Reich, Josef von Manowarda, Paul Schöffler)

* Baldur von Schirach and Mrs. Goering attended the concert

1 November, Hamburg - BPO

E. Nikolaus von Reznicek: Chamisso-Variationen (after the poem «Tragische Geschichte») - Schumann: Cello concerto (Arthur Troester) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

3, 4 & 5 November, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Reznicek: Chamisso-Variationen - Schumann: Cello concerto (Enrico Mainardi) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

6 November, Leipzig - BPO

Reznicek: Tragische Geschichte - Schumann: Cello concerto (Arthur Troester) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

7 November, Prague - BPO

Smetana: the Moldau... (other works unknown)

12(+) & 17 November, Zurich (das Tonhalle - und Radio-Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

+ Broadcasted Live by Radio Beromünster.

20 November, Winterthur (das Winterthurer Stadtorchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

23 & 24 November, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Pfitzner: Symphony opus 46 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

26 November, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Joachim Sattler, Anny Konetzni, Josef von Manowarda, Paul Schöffler)

5 December, Vienna; 6 December, Munich (Odeon hall) & 11 December, Leipzig (great hall of the Gewandhaus)

Tartini: Sonata in G minor - Furtwängler: Sonata No. 2 - Beethoven: Sonata op. 24 No. 5, «Spring» (Kulenkampff, Furtwängler)

* Kulenkampff and Furtwängler also gave a recital in Weimar the date of which remains unknown since no programme or critique have been found todate. But given that Weimar is not far from Leipzig, we may assume that it took place shortly before December 11. The concert's existence is documented by the Weimarian painter Alfred Ahner (1890-1973), who drew it on that occasion. Another concert with the same interpreters and the same programme was given on December 7 in Stuttgart.

Concert programme of 11 December 1940

15, 16(+) & 17 December, Berlin - BPO

Th. Berger: Rondino giocoso - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Harzer, Borries, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

+ Broadcasted Live by Radio Berlin

21 & 22 December, Vienna - WP

Berger: Rondino giocoso - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (W. Schneiderhan, Niedermaier, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

5 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Herbert Alsen, Anni Konetzni, Paul Schöffler, Margarete Klose)

10 January, Hamburg - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12, 13 & 14 January, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 1 (Edwin Fischer)

*A work by Sibelius was planned in honour of the composer's 75th birthday but it was postponed to a later date.

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

16 January, Munich (Deutsches Museum)

Strauss: Don Juan - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

18 January, Milan (Teatro alla Scala)

Strauss: Don Juan - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

19 January, Turin (Teatro Vittorio Emanuele)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

20 January, Genua (Teatro Carlo Felice)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Berger: Rondino giocoso - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

22 January, Rome (Teatro Adriano)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Prelude (bis)

23 January, Naples (Teatro San Carlo)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Berger: Rondino giocoso - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

24 January, Rome [broadcast Live](Teatro Adriano)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Symphony No. 7 - Berger: Rondino giocoso - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture (bis)

26 January, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Strauss: Don Juan - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

* Furtwängler's friend Vittorio GUI pressed him to conduct Tristan for the opening of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. According to the press of the time, a simple sports accident prevented Furtwängler from conducting his first opera in Italy. He was replaced by Gino Marinuzzi who conducted Tristan on May 1, 4 and 8 1941 with Max Lorenz (Tristan), Ludwig Weber (Marcke), Erna Schlüter (Isolde) and Elisabeth Höngen (Brangane).

27 January, Bologna (Teatro Comunale)

Strauss: Don Juan - Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude; der fliegende Holländer, Prelude (bis)

28 January, Trieste (Teatro Comunale G. Verdi) & 29 January, Venice (Teatro la Fenice)

Strauss: Don Juan - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Borries, Harzer, Furtwängler) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

2, 3 & 4 February, Berlin - BPO

Smetana: the Bartered Bride, Overture - Heinrich Zilcher: Violin concerto (UA) (Erich Röhn) - Schubert: Rondo for violin D 438 (Erich Röhn) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

5 February, Dresden - BPO

8 & 9 February, Vienna (MVS) & 10 February, Munich (Deutsches Museum) - WP

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

* The concerts of February 22 & 23 with the WP were cancelled due to Furtwängler being ill. The programme was entirely dedicated to Beethoven: Coriolan, Piano concerto No. 4 (Kempff) and the Eroica

5 March, Berlin - BPO

Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

* At the beginning of March, whilst skiing in Sankt Anton (Vorarlberg), Furtwängler fell and suffered from multiple fractures. All his activities were suspended for almost eight months and he wrote his texts on Wagner and Nietzsche.

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Season 1941 - 1942

19, 20 & 21 October, Berlin - BPO

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Karl Höller: Cello concerto (UA) (Ludwig Hoelscher) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

22 October, Hamburg - BPO

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Wilhelm Kempff) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

2, 3 & 4 November, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Theodor Berger: Ballade for orchestra (UA) - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Wilhelm Kempff) & Leonore Overture No. III

5 November, Leipzig - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Berger: Ballade for orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

11(+) & 16 November, Zurich (das Tonhalle - und Radio-Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5 (special concert to the benefit of the Orchestra's pension fund)

+ Broadcasted Live by Radio Beromünster.

17 & 18 November, Bern (Berner Stadtorchester)

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

22 & 23 November, Vienna - WP

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & 3 Hungarian Dances

24 November, Budapest - WP

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

29, 30 November & 1 December, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

* Between these two works, the orchestra's nineteen year-old concertmaster Gerhard Taschner played the Bach Chaconne

5 (+) & 6 December, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Requiem (Maria Reining, Margaret Klose, Herbert Alsen ( G. Hann on December 6)

+ Von Schirach and Goebbels attended the concert

10 & 11 December, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Requiem (Trude Eipperle, Josef Greindl, Walther Ludwig & Bruno-Kittel choir)

14, 15, 16 December, Berlin & 17 December, Hamburg - BPO

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

25 December & 1 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Herbert Alsen, Anni Konetzni, Paul Schöffler, Margarete Klose)

* In an interview given to the French Television, Elisabeth Furtwängler said that Furtwängler invited her and her sister to the Vienna Staatsoper for the performance of Tristan and Fidelio. It was on her arrival in Vienna, on January 1, that she fell in love with Furtwängler and that they decided to get married in 1943.

3 & 4 January, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

7 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Lorenz, Helena Braun, Herbert Alsen, Hans Hotter )

11, 12 & 13 January, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 5 (Erich Röhn, Gerhard Taschner, Arthur Tröster) - Bruch: Violin concerto No. 1 (Giulia Bustabo) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & 2 Hungarian Dances

14 January, Hamburg - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

16 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Lorenz, Braun, Alsen, Hotter)

17 & 18 January, Vienna - WP

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8

* Casella conducted his own Symphony

23 January, Copenhagen (Odd Fellow paleets store Sal) - Det Kgl. Kapel

Sibelius: En Saga - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

27 & 28 January, Stockholm (Konsertföreningen)

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Scandinavian Tour of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

5 February, Stockholm

Weber: Oberon - Brahms: Double concerto for violin and cello (Taschner, Machula) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

6 February, Upsala

8 February, Stockholm

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

9 February, Malmö

10 February, Copenhagen (Odd Fellow Paleets store Sal)

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Brahms: Double Concerto (Gerhard Taschner, Tibor de Machula) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

11 February, Copenhagen (Odd Fellow Paleets store Sal)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

13 February, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 5 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

15, 16 & 17 February, Berlin - BPO

Jarnach: Musik mit Mozart - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: 4 Lieder (Peter Anders) & Don Juan

20 & 24 February, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Lorenz, Helena Braun, Herbert Alsen, Hans Hotter (Jerger on 24))

26 February, Berlin (AEG factory, at noon) - BPO

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

1, 2 & 3 March, Berlin - BPO

Paul Höffer: Symphonische Variationen über einen Bass von Bach - Schumann: Piano concerto (Walter Gieseking) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

13 March, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Lorenz, Helena Braun, Marjan Rus, Alfred Jerger)

21, 22, 23 & 24 March, Berlin - BPO (concert for the 40 years of the Kittel choir)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Tilla Briem, Elisabeth Höngen, Peter Anders, Rudolf Watzke & Bruno-Kittel choir)

Centenary of the Vienna Philharmonic

28 March, Vienna - WP

a) A 1 p.m., after a speech by Baldur von Schirach, Furtwängler conducted Beethoven's Weihe des Hauses

b) concert: Schubert: Symphony No. 3 (single performance) - Beethoven: Romance No. 1 (Willy Boskovsky) - Mozart: Non temer, amato bene (Anny Konetzni) - Nicolaï: die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Overture

29 & 30 March, Vienna - WP

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

19 April, Berlin - BPO(celebrations for Hitler's birthday)

Bach: Suite in D minor, Aria - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (the last movement was filmed) (Erna Berger, Gertrude Pitzinger, Helge Roswaenge, Rudolf Watzke & Bruno-Kittel choir)

* This concert was broadcast in many countries (Norway, Greece) as far as Riga. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung wrote about Hitler's "genius" and the critic said that "this festive music was the perfect shrine for Dr. Goebbels's speech."

21, 22, 23 & 24 April, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Erika Rokyta, Else Schürhoff, Georg Maikl, Herbert Alsen)

31 May & 1 June, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Piano Concerto (Alfred Cortot) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

* This concert inaugurated the Artistic Weeks of Berlin (Goebbels wanted them centred on the theme "Art for the People").

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

4 June, Basel

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 1 - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

5 June, Bern

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

6 June, Geneva

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III, Symphonies No. 1 & 7

7 June, Lausanne

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

8 June, Zurich

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

11 & 14 June, Zurich (Stadttheater) - das Tonhalle Orchester

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Max Lorenz, Marko Rothmüller, Ludwig Weber, Kirsten Flagstad)

21 & 22 June, Berlin - BPO

Concerts Brahms: Tragische Ouvertüre, Violin concerto (Gerhard Taschner) & Symphony No. 4

29 & 30 June, Potsdam - BPO

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Season 1942 - 1943

25, 26, 27 & 28 October, Berlin - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Schumann: Cello concerto (Tibor de Machula) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

31 October & 1 November, Vienna - WP

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Wolfgang Schneiderhan) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

4 November, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Lorenz, Helena Braun, Herbert Alsen, Hans Hotter)

8, 9, 10 & 11 November, Berlin - BPO

Gerhard Frommel: Symphony opus 13 (UA) - Brahms: Piano concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer - Johannes Bork on 10 November) - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

* Frommel's symphony was broadcasted on November 22 by the Reichssender

12 November, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Lorenz, Helena Braun, Herbert Alsen, Alfred Jerger)

14 & 15 November, Vienna - WP

Sibelius: En Saga - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Wilhelm Kempff) - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

Concerts in Scandinavia

20 & 22 November, Stockholm (Royal Opera)

Wagner: die Walküre (Set Svanholm, Leon Björker, Joel Berglund, Brita Hertzberg, Irma Björck)

25 & 27 November, Stockholm (Konsertföreningen)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

29 November, Stockholm (Konsertföreningen)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

2 December, Göteborg (Göteborg Orchestra)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Sibelius: En Saga - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

6, 7 & 8 December, Berlin - BPO

Heinz Schubert: Hymnisches Konzert, for Soprano, Tenor, Organ and Orchestra (Erna Berger, Walter Ludwig & Fritz Heitmann, organ) - Mozart: Aria K 419 (Erna Berger) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

12 & 16 December, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bockelmann, Manowarda, Arnold, Fuchs, Müller (on December 12) and Prohaska, Joseph Greindl, Lorenz, Müller (on December 16)

In his book, B. Wessling writes:

"On 7 December 1942, Furtwängler was to conduct the Meistersinger for the re-opening of the State Opera. He conducted it eight times during that month with Bockelmann and Prohaska as Sachs."

He is wrong. In fact, the Première took place on 12, with Bockelmann, and Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted another performance on December 16 with Prohaska. The activity of the State Opera/Staatsoper during the month of December was as follows:

10 and 11: dress rehearsal of Meistersinger; 12: Première; 13: evening of chamber music; 14: closed; 15: Orphée and Eurydice; 16: Meistersinger; 17 and 18: closed; 19: Orphée and Eurydice; 20: evening of chamber music; 21: closed; 22: Freischütz; 23 and 24: closed; 25: Fidelio; 26: der Rosenkavalier; 27: le Nozze di Figaro; 29 and 30: closed; 31: le Nozze di Figaro

The Staatsoper archives have also a register noting the duration of each performance, act by act. These registers contain also the commentaries (often very strict) of Heinz Tietjen, the intendant of the Opera.

* The Dvorak violin concerto with Gerhard Taschner and the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler was broadcast on December 20. The recording was certainly made by F. Schnapp but no tape thereof has survived. This work doesn't exist in the programmes of the philharmonic concerts.

26 December, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Max Lorenz, Helena Braun, Herbert Alsen, Paul Schöffler)

2 & 5 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Herbert Alsen, Anni Konetzni, Pauk Schöffler, Margarete Klose)

* It is the only opera staged by Furtwängler himself

8 January, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jaro Prohaska, Josef Greindl, Max Lorenz, Maria Müller)

10, 11 & 12 January, Berlin - BPO

Reger: Variationen über ein Thema von Hiller - Franck: Symphonic variations for piano and orchestra (Geza Anda) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

* The concert was broadcast twice: on January 17 (Beethoven) and on January 24 (Franck and Reger)

16 January, Winterthur (Stadthaussaal) - Winterthurer Stadtorchester

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

20(+) & 24 January, Zurich (das Tonhalle - und Radio-Orchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

+ Broadcasted Live by Radio Beromünster.

26 January, Bern (das Berner Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Coriolan, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

7, 8, 9 & 10 February, Berlin - BPO

Sibelius: En Saga & Violin concerto (Georg Kulenkampff) - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

11 February, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jaro Prohaska, Josef Greindl, Max Lorenz, Maria Müller)

13 & 14 February, Vienna - WP

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Sinfonia domestica

16 February, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Sigmund Roth, Anni Konetzni, Paul Schöffler, Margarete Klose)

* Staged by Furtwängler

20 & 21 February, Vienna - WP

Kodaly: Theme and Variations on a Hungarian folksong - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

22 February, Budapest - WP

Kodaly: Theme and Variations on a Hungarian folksong - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture

Scandinavian Tour of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

6 May, Copenhagen

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

8 May, Copenhagen

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Berger: Rondino giocoso - Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

10 May, Malmö

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture, Symphonies No. 8 & 9

11 May, Göteborg; 12 May, Stockholm (Konserthusets stora sal) & 13 May, Upsala

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

14 May, Stockholm (Konserthusets stora sal)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Berger: Rondino giocoso - Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - J. Strauss: an der schönen blauen Donau

17 May, Berlin - BPO

a) at 12.30 p.m., Werkkonzert in Verbindung mit der NSG «Kraft durch Freude», in the Siemens factory

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

b) at 6 p.m., in the Philharmonic Hall

Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

22 & 23 May, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 3

24 & 25 June, Potsdam - BPO

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Piano concerto No. 5 (Elly Ney) & Symphony No. 5

* On June 26 he marries in Berlin Elisabeth Ackermann and on June 27 the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung publishes his text «Gedanken über Beethoven» (thoughts about Beethoven).

27, 28, 29 & 30 June, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 5

Bayreuth Festival (Festival Orchestra)

15, 18, 21 & 24 July (Festspielhaus)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Müller, Kallab, Lorenz, Schöffler/ Nissen, Krenn, Fuchs)

* Hermann Abendroth conducts the other twelve performances

18 August (+), Zurich (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4 & 3

+ Broadcast Live by Radio Beromünster.

21 August, Zurich (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Sibelius: En Saga - Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

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* On September 7, the Jewish pianist Karl-Robert Kreiten, a pupil of Arrau's, was hanged in Berlin by the Nazis after a process lead by the sinister public prosecutor Roland Freisler. Hartmut Lange turned this tragic episode into a play called Requiem für K.R.;it was premiered in 1987. Among the characters are Kreiten and his mother, Furtwängler and Goebbels, two informers and a Gestapo agent.

30 September, Munich (Deutsches Museum) - Munich Philharmonic, called "Orchester der Stadt der Bewegung"

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

15, 16 & 17 October, Vienna - WP

Concerts Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Double Concerto (W. Schneiderhan, R. Krotschak) & Symphony No. 4

23, 24 & 25 October, Vienna - WP

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral March and final scene (Anny Konetzni)

27 October, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Maria Müller, jaro Prohaska, Max Lorenz, Erich Zimmermann, Josef Greindl, Fritz Krenn)

31 October, 1, 2 & 3 November, Berlin - BPO

Ernst Pepping: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Conrad Hansen) & Symphony No. 7

* The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: «Pepping's symphony is the work of a true symphonist and therefore it suits Furtwängler...»

5, 6 & 7 November, Vienna - WP

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche & also sprach Zarathustra

13, 14, 15 & 16 November, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 - Schumann: Cello concerto (Pierre Fournier) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

21 November, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Herbert Alsen, Paul Schöffler, Anni Konetzni, Else Schürhoff)

26 November, Göteborg (Göteborg Orchestra)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture No. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

1 December, Stockholm - SKO

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Siegfried's Death (other works unknown) & Tannhäuser, Overture

5, 7 & 8 December, Stockholm - SKO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Hjordis Schymberg, Lisa Tunell, Gosta Backelin, Sigurd Björling)

12, 13, 14 & 15 December, Berlin - BPO

Concerts Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Piano concerto No. 2 (Adrian Aeschbacher) & Symphony No. 4

18, 19 & 20 December, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

2 & 6 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Max Lorenz, Herbert Alsen, Anni Konetzni, Paul Schöffler, Elisabeth Höngen (on 2) - Julius Pölzer, Sigmund Roth, Anni Konetzni, Paul Schöffler, Elisabeth Höngen (on 6)

9, 10, 11 & 12(+) January, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Violin concerto (Erich Röhn) - Strauss: Sinfonia domestica

+ Last concert in the old Philharmonic Hall at 22, Bernburgerstrasse, before its destruction through bombings

17 January, Lausanne(+) & 19 January, Geneva - Orchestre de la Suisse romande

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

+ Broadcasted Live by Radio Sottens

24 & 25 January, Bern (Berner Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

7 & 8 February (at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.), Berlin - BPO (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 10 - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

12 February, Berlin Cathedral - BPO

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 10 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

20 February, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Julius Pölzer, Herbert Alsen, Anni Konetzni, Paul Schöffler, Margarete Klose )

10, 11 & 12 March, Vienna & 13 March, Budapest - WP

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Pfitzner: Symphony opus 46 - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

14 March, Budapest - WP

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

16 March, Prague - BPO

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

20 & 21 March (at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.), Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden) & 22 March, Potsdam - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

In May, the revue L'illustrazione italiana wrote:

"The famous Berlin Philharmonic and its conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler will soon be filmed by the film producer Tobis with Paul Verhoeven as director. The film will be structured on the music of Bruckner, Beethoven and Liszt just like Walt Disney's American film Fantasia."

However, Furtwängler refused to take part in this film (called "Philharmoniker" and produced by Tobis Filmkunst in 1943-1944) that was officially presented in Berlin on December 5 1944. But nevertheless, he still appears in the film.... but only as a portrait! The film is a light fiction: it tells the story of the contradictory destinies of two brothers, both violinists - one a member of the Philharmonic, the other one not - both torn by the love for the same woman. Made to glorify the Philharmonic, the film seems not to make any explicit reference to Hitler's Germany, and the story is placed at the beginning of the Nineteen Thirties. What pushed Furtwängler not to take part in it? The interest is focused on the music and on its interpreters, Eugen Jochum, Karl Böhm, Hans Knappertsbusch and Richard Strauss.

* On May 4, musical event in honour of the "Staatsrat" Furtwängler at Sankt-Florian Abbey.

2 & 3 June, Vienna - WP (Magnetofonkonzert)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Schubert: Rosamunde (Overture, Interlude No. 2 & Ballets)

14 & 18 June, Zurich (Stadttheater)

Wagner: Siegfried (Max Lorenz, Erich Zimmermann, Paul Schöffler, Martha Fuchs, etc.)

19 & 22 June, Potsdam - BPO

Festivals of Bayreuth, Salzburg and Lucerne

18 & 22 July, Bayreuth (Festspielhaus)

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jaro Prohaska, Dalberg, Krenn, Lorenz, Annelies Kupper (Eva), Camilla Kallab)

* Hermann Abendroth conducted the other ten performances

14 August, Salzburg (Festspielhaus) - WP

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

22 August, Lucerne (Kunsthaus) - das Festspielorchester

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber & Tannhäuser, Overture

Broadcast Live by Radio Beromünster & Sottens

6 September, Lucerne (Kunsthaus) - das Festspielorchester

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 3

Broadcast Live by Radio Sottens.

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11 October, Sankt-Florian Abbey (das Linzer Bruckner Orchester)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Furtwängler conducted the orchestra once only. Its steady conductor was Georg-Ludwig Jochum, one of the three Jochum brothers. Hitler wanted this orchestra and the Bruckner choir of Linz (conducted by Günther Ramin), to be the backbone of the music programs of the "Grossdeutschland" Radio. The Bruckner orchestra of Linz was also called the Orchestra of the Führer.

Several papers such as the Oberdonau-Zeitung, the Schlesische Zeitung, the Brünner Tageblatt, the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung wrote about the concert. Herbert Caspers wrote in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung:

"On request of Reichsintendant Glasmeier, the Linz Radio orchestra played in the baroque church of St. Florian (where Bruckner is buried beside his beloved organ) the composer's last work, the Ninth symphony in its original version. The most famous conductors have conducted the Orchestra of the Radio of "Grossdeutschland". This year, it was Furtwängler who conducted Bruckner's swan song. The performance was of unearthly beauty and all-impressive sound fullness."

In a letter to Max Auer on November 22 1952, Furtwängler wrote:

" I'll never forget the performance of this incomparable work in the Church of St. Florian, during the last and worst years of this cursed war."

14, 15 & 16 October, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

17 October, Vienna - WP (Magnetofonkonzert)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

21 October, Potsdam - BPO

Gerhart von Westermann: Divertimento für grosses Orchester (UA) - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

22 & 23 October, Berlin - BPO (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Westerman: Divertimento für grosses Orchester - Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Aria (Tiana Lemnitz) & Motet de l'Exsultate (Tiana Lemnitz) - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

29 October, Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden)

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Act 1 at 2.30 p.m. and Act 2 at 5 p.m.)

Erna Schlüter, Margarete Klose, Ludwig Hoffmann, Max Lorenz, Jaro Prohaska, Hilde Scheppan, Irmgard Langhammer

On November 7, his mother dies and on November 11, Elisabeth Furtwängler bears him a son Andreas (in Greek it means "virile"...). On December 5, "Philharmoniker", the film celebrating the Philharmonic, directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Tobis Filmkunst, is officially presented in Berlin.

10, 11 & 12 December, Berlin - BPO (Admiralspalast)

Hessenberg: Symphony No. 2 (UA) (Schubert Symphony No. 8 on December 12) - Brahms: Violin concerto (Wolfgang Schneiderhan) - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III

16, 17 & 18 December, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 3

19 & 20 December, Vienna - WP (Magnetofonkonzert)

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 3

22 & 23(+) January, Berlin - BPO (Admiralspalast)

Mozart: die Zauberflöte, Overture & Symphony No. 40 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

+ The Mozart symphony is interrupted by bombings: the first and second movement only were played

[25 January: he celebrates with his friend Friedrich Schnapp his 59th anniversary at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna]

27, 28 & 29 January, Vienna - WP

Franck: Symphony in D minor - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

* On January 30, Furtwängler sends to the Berlin Philharmonic a cable cancelling the concerts of February 4 & 5 on the grounds that he has slipped on the ice. On February 1, he starts preparing his flight for Switzerland taking advantage of some concerts that have been planned earlier on. Between February 1 and 6, he hides in Dornbirn, in Austria near Bregenz and the Swiss border. On February 7, he crosses the border and joins his wife and his three-month-old son Andreas, in Zurich.

12 February, Lausanne & 14 February (+), Geneva - Orchestre de la Suisse romande

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

+ Broadcasted Live by Sottens.

23 February, Winterthur (Stadthaussaal) - Winterthurer Stadtorchester

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

Two concerts were planned with the orchestra of the Tonhalle (February 20 & 25) but they were cancelled. An enormous scandal broke out on that occasion in the Swiss press, particularly in the Volksrecht and lasted the whole month! The Violksrecht's issue of February 24 frankly asks: "Is Furtwängler a Nazi?", and produces material claimed to be "authentic"! Issue No. 47 of the French-speaking "Journal de Genève", of February 24/25, gives a good overview of the Furtwängler Affair.

«The Council of State cancelled the two concerts that Wilhelm Furtwängler shoud lave conducted this week at the Tonhalle: the public reacted very emotionally. In general terms, the cancellation seems to be regretted: this attitude was suggested to the Government the Town's Executive Council and was inforced by the labour Party and the extreme left. Protest followed quickly. The "Nouvelle Gazette de Zurich" and the independent paper die Tat immediately took position against this kind of interference of partisan passions with the world of the spirit, that gave life to such unpleasant examples of intolerance. The one domain in which Switzerland has always wanted to keep out of the mêlée, is precisely the domain of Art and particularly that of music. Regrettably the authorities seemed to surrender to some demagogic actions that wanted to take advantage of the general and justified hatred of a foreign political regime. (...)»

At the end of January 1946, Furtwängler went to Vienna where the Austrian denazification trials started in March. The German denazification trials took place in Berlin on December 11 and 17 1946.

On December 28 1946, Furtwängler went to see Carl Jung (*) in his property in Rüdesheim (called Château Boosenburg). Walter Gieseking was also there for a little concert in which he played works by Bach, Ravel and Debussy. Just before, Furtwängler played with him the Brahms Variations for two pianos, opus 56b Brahms. That day Dr. Jung received a cable from Hans Pfitzner: «Have you forgotten me?» It was all about a delivery of wine! Furtwängler was in an excellent spirits and gave a "humorous" (sic) account of his denazification process.

The correspondence between Jung and Furtwängler is quite interesting (from 1946 to 1949). Particular mention is made of some "remarks" of the violinist Gerhard Taschner that Furtwängler had named first violin of the Berlin Philharmonic. Furtwängler wrote for example on June 23 to Jung:

"Taschner made some very 'negative' remarks about the orchestra and myself. (...)"

and on that same day, he wrote to Taschner himself:

"What you said during my denazification was not very nice but for me it is now forgotten. (...)"

* Carl Jung succeeded his father who in 1868 founded the Jung firm, famous for its non-alcoholic wine. Carl had studied music and since 1917 was a friend of Paul Hindemith's. In 1919 he married Elisabeth von Zwerger who gave him three sons. In 1939 the family settled down in Rüdesheim, which, after the war, became a meeting point for many famous musicians (such as Ludwig Hoelscher, Walter Gieseking, the composer Wolfgang Fortner, Gerhard Taschner and his wife Gerda Nette). The Hoelscher trio, Gieseking and Taschner gave many unforgettable soirees of chamber music at the Boosenburg.

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Concerts in Italy

6 April, Rome (Teatro Argentina) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

Broadcasted Live

9 April, Rome (Teatro Argentina) Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

13 April, Florence (Teatro Comunale) - Orchestra del Maggio musicale

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 3

Broadcasted Live

20 April, Florence (Teatro Comunale) - Orchestra del Maggio musicale

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

25 & 26 May, 27 (Haus des Rundfunks) & 29 May, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

* If not indicated otherwise, the concerts in Berlin took place in the hall of Titania-Palast

31 May, 1 & 2 June, Berlin in the Admiralspalast at Friedrichstrasse 101 - BSOK (Staatsopernkapelle)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

3 June, Potsdam - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

4 June, Berlin in the Admiralspalast at Friedrichstrasse - BSOK

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

9 June, Hamburg (Hamburg Philharmonic)

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

12 & 13 June, Munich - BPO

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

Salzburg Festival (WP)

10 August, Festspielhaus

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

13 August, Festspielhaus

Hindemith: Sinfonische Metamorphosen über Themen von Weber - Brahms: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

20 August

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter)

27 August

Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 1 (Adrian Aeschbacher) & Leonore Overture No. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

30 August

Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

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14 & 15 & 16 September (Haus des Rundfunks), Berlin & 17 September, Potsdam (Château Sans-Souci) - BPO

Hindemith: Sinfonische Metamorphosen über Themen von Weber - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

22 September, Hamburg (das Sinfonie-Orchester des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks)

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, 3 excerpts - Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (Erich Röhn, Arthur Troester) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

28 & 29 September, Berlin - BPO

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) & Symphony No. 7

2 October, Berlin in Admiralspalast - BSOK ("zum Besten der jüdischen Gemeinde Berlins")

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

* Menuhin played also Bach's Sonata for violin in C major

3 October, Berlin (Deutsche Staatsoper in Admiralspalast)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Erna Schlüter, Margarete Klose, Ludwig Suthaus, Gottlob Frick, Jaro Prohaska)

* This performance was staged by Frida Leider

8 October, Stockholm - SKO

Hindemith: Sinfonische Metamorphosen über Themen von Weber - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

10 & 12 October, Stockholm - SKO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Coriolan, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

15, 17 & 18 October, Munich (Deutsches Museum) - Münchner Philharmoniker

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Hindemith: Sinfonische Metamorphosen über Themen von Weber - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

21 October, Berlin - BSOK

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

24 October, Berlin (Deutsche Staatsoper in Admiralspalast)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Erna Schlüter, Margarete Klose, Ludwig Suthaus, Gottlob Frick, Jaro Prohaska)

26 & 27 October, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Strauss: Metamorphosen - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

30 October, Berlin (Deutsche Staatsoper in Admiralspalast)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Erna Schlüter, Margarete Klose, Ludwig Suthaus, Gottlob Frick, Jaro Prohaska, Paula Büchner)

4 November, Leipzig - GOL

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

8 & 9 November, Vienna - WP - "Gedächtniskonzert zum 100. Todestag Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" (Concert in the memory of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's 100th death anniversary)

Mendelssohn: ein Sommernachtstraum, Overture & Violin concerto (Wolfgang Schneiderhan) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

15 & 16 November, Vienna - WP

Hindemith: Sinfonische Metamorphosen über Themen von Weber - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

29 & 30 November, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

3 & 4 December, Vienna - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Paul Schöffler)

12 & 13 December, Geneva - Orchestre de la Suisse romande

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 7

17 December, Winterthur & 19 December, Schaffhausen (Winterthurer Stadtorchester)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III & Symphony No. 7

12 & 13 January, Bern (Berner Stadtorchester)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

24 & 25 January, Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées) - Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

31 January & 1 February, Vienna - WP

Concerts Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 7

4 & 5 February, Vienna - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

15 & 16 February, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Stravinsky: l'oiseau de feu

22 & 23 February, Berlin (Deutsche Staatsoper im Admiralspalast) - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 (UA)

Concerts in Great Britain with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra

29 February, London (Royal Opera House of Covent Garden) - LPO

Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a theme by Tallis - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

4 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - LPO

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Eugenia Zareska) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

5 March, Birmingham & 6 March, Leicester - LPO

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

8 March, Watford & 9 March, Wimbledon - LPO

See March 4

11 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - LPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Sibelius: En Saga - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

14 March, London (Royal Opera House) - LPO

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

18 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - LPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

25 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - LPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No .5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Hammond, Jarred, Jones, Parsons)

Concerts in Buenos Aires
(Orchestra del Teatro Colon)

6 April

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

10 April

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

14 April

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Strauss: ein Heldenleben - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

17 April

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Götterdämmerung, Funeral March & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

24 April

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Stravinsky: the Firebird - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

28 April

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Respighi: i Pini di Roma - Buchardo: Escenas argentinas - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

29 April

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture No. III - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

4 May

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Nilda Hoffmann, Zaira Negroni, Kolomon von Pataky, Angelo Mattiello)

Concerts in Italy

12 May, Rome (Teatro Argentina) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, 2nd Suite - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

16 May, Rome (Teatro Argentina) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 7

19 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale) - Orchestra del Maggio musicale

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Frazzi: Cicilia - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

21 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale) - Orchestra del Maggio musicale

Respighi: Le Fontane di Roma - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

26 May, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Respighi: Le Fontane di Roma - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

29 May, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Schumann: Cello concerto (Enrico Mainardi) - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, funeral march & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

3 June, Basel & 4 June, Geneva - WP

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

5 June, Montreux - WP

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

6 June, Lausanne - WP

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

7 June, Bern - WP

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

8 June, Zurich - WP

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer (bis)

* When Furtwängler arrived in Zurich, a new scandal broke out in the Swiss press (die Tat), the attitude of which was very biased. The Volksrecht dedicated two pages to the «Furtwängler Affair» in its issues of June 5 and 7. Furtwängler reacted to these attacks and wrote on June 22 in his domicile (the Villa l'Empereur in Clarens), a letter to the Mayor of Zurich, Mr. Lüchinger, and rectified a number of wrong affirmations that had been published in another paper, the Tagblatt der Stadt Zurich. Furtwängler ended his letter by saying that he would pursue him in justice if the letter were not forwarded to the Zurich social-democratic party that was responsible of these attacks. He wrote another letter to the party's leadership on August 30 and this put an end to the affair.

Salzburg Festival (WP)

31 July & 3 August, Felsenreitschule

Beethoven: Fidelio (Erna Schlüter, Lisa Della Casa, Julius Patzak, Rudolf Schock, Otto Edelmann)

5 August, Festspielhaus

Uhl: Introduction and Variations - Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Stravinsky: Petrushka - Strauss: ein Heldenleben

6 August, Felsenreitschule

Beethoven: Fidelio (Erna Schlüter, Lisa Della Casa, Julius Patzak, Rudolf Schock, Otto Edelmann)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

18 August

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude; Siegfried-Idyll & Götterdämmerung, Funeral March - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

28 & 29 August

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elsa Cavelti, Ernst Häfliger, Paul Schöffler & A. Jenny choir)

30 August

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll; Götterdämmerung, Funeral March & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

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* A sad episode shook the relationship between Furtwängler and America in August 1948. The directors of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra contacted Furtwängler inviting him to conduct 22 weeks in the following Season that lasted overall 28 weeks. In December, Furtwängler accepted to take over 8 concerts weeks. On January 6 1949, an article by H. Taubmann was published in the Times, called: «Musicians' ban on Furtwängler ends his Chicago contract for 1949.» These were Horowitz, Rubinstein, Brailowsky, Lily Pons and Kostelanetz who said they would never play in Chicago again if Furtwängler became the orchestra's principal conductor. At this, Furtwängler preferred giving up his contrat with Chicago.

8 September, Edinburgh (Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia)

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Triple concerto for piano, violin and cello (Gioconda de Vito, Enrico Mainardi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) & Leonore Overture No. II

9 September, Edinburgh (Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia)

Ghedini: Partita - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

24, 25 & 26 September, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & 6

Beethoven cycle in the
London Albert Hall (WP)

28 September : Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

30 September : Leonore Overture No. III, Symphonies No. 8 & 7

2 October : Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & No. 3

3 October : Symphonies No. 1 & 2; Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin)

6 October : Symphony No. 9

Ljuba Welitsch, Elisabeth Höngen, Julius Patzak, Norman Walker

17 & 18 October, Hamburg (Hamburg Philharmonic)

Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2

* Eugen Jochum conducted the concert's second part

24, 25 & 26 October, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

3 November, London (Express Hall) - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Myra Hess) - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

4 November, Liverpool - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

5 November, Birmingham - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

7 November, Oxford - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 3 - Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphonies No. 8 & 9

13 November, Stockholm - SKO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III, Symphonies No. 8 & 7

17, 18 & 19 November, Stockholm - SKO

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Kerstin Lindberg-Torlind, Bernhard Sönnerstedt)

27 & 28 November, Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées) - Orchestra de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Strauss: Don Juan - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

4, 5 & 6 December, Vienna - WP

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Walton: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

18, 19 & 20 December, Vienna - WP

Joseph Marx: Nordland-Rhapsody - Strauss: Concerto for oboe and Orchestra (Hans Kamesch)

* It's not clear if other works were played on that evening...

21 & 22 December, Vienna - das Wiener Symphony-Orchester

Brahms: Violin concerto (Wolfgang Schneiderhan) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

19 January, Geneva; 20 January, Lausanne & 21 January, Fribourg - Orchestre de la Suisse romande

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

26, 27, 28 & 29 January, Munich (Munich Philharmonic)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

5 & 6 February, Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées) - Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll & Götterdämmerung, Trauermusik/Funeral March - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

8 February, Vienna - WP

Mozart : Serenade No. 10, Concerto No. 10 for 2 pianos (Dagmar Bella, Paul Badura-Skoda) & Symphony No. 40

12, 13 & 14 February, Vienna - WP

Pfitzner: die Rose von Liebesgarten, Funeral Music - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

19, 20 & 21 February, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Clara Ebers, Lore Fischer, Lorenz Fehenberger, Paul Schöffler)

28 February & 1 March, Bern (Stadtorchester)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Barber: Adagio for strings - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

9 March, Winterthur (Winterthurer Stadtorchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2

13, 14 & 15 March, Berlin - BPO

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

19, 20 & 21 March, Munich (Munich Philharmonic)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Clara Ebers, Lore Fischer, Lorenz Fehenberger, Rudolf Watzke)

Concerts in Italy

14 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale) - Orchestra del Teatro Comunale [Broadcast Live]

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

18 May, Rome (Teatro Argentina) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & 5

22 May, Roma (Teatro Argentina) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Mirella Fleri, Luisa Ribacchi, Amedeo Berdini, Sesto Bruscantini & choir of the Accademia Santa Cecilia)

25 May, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Hindemith: Symphonische Metamorphosen - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

28 May, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Winifried Cecil, Giulietta Simionato, Giacinto Prandelli, Cesare Siepi & choir of the Teatro alla Scala)

* Broadcast Live - Toscanini listened to the broadcast of the concert and said to the Corriere della Sera: «Orchestra perfect... all brave»

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

1 June, Hamburg

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

2 June, Hamburg

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

3 June, Hildesheim

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

4 June, Hanover (see June 2)

5 June, Bielefeld

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

6 June, Bad Pyrmont

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

7 June, Viersen

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5 & 6

8 June, Wuppertal

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

9 June, Düsseldorf

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

10 June, Wiesbaden

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

11 June, Frankfurt am Main (Conference)

12 June, Frankfurt am Main (afternoon)

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

12 June, Wiesbaden (evening)

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

13 June, Heidelberg

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

14 June, Baden-Baden

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

18 June, Berlin (afternoon and evening) - BPO (Concerts at the Titania-Palast in the memory of Hans Pfitzner)

Pfitzner: Palestrina, 3 Preludes - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

19 June, Berlin - BPO

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Salzburg Festival (WP)

27 July, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Josef Greindl, Paul Schöffler, Sieglinde Wagner, Elisabeth Höngen)

30 July & 3 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Irmgard Seefried, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Paul Schöffler)

5 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Josef Greindl, etc.)

7 August, concert (Festspielhaus)

Pfitzner: Symphony opus 46 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

8 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Irmgard Seefried, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, etc.)

11 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Josef Greindl, etc.)

16 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Irmgard Seefried, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, etc.)

18 August, Conference

19 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Irmgard Seefried, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, etc.)

20 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Josef Greindl, etc.)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

24 August

Brahms: double concerto for violin and cello (Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Enrico Mainardi) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

Broadcasted Live by Sottens, Beromünster, Monte Ceneri and again on August 30 by Beromünster.

27 & 28 August - Haydn: die Schöpfung (Irmgard Seefried, Walther Ludwig, Boris Christoff)

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9 September, Besançon (Théâtre municipal) - Orchestre des Concerts Colonne

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Hindemith: Piano concerto (Franz Josef Hirt) - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

24 & 25 September, Vienna - WP

Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: eine Faust Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn & Symphony No. 1

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

28 September, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Wagner: eine Faust Overture - Schubert: Gesang der Geister - Brahms: Alt-Rhapsodie (Mary Jarred) - Beethoven: Egmont & Symphony No. 7

29 September, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

30 September, Oxford

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

1 October, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

4 October, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) & Symphony No. 1

5 October, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Hilde Zadek, Jean Watson, Julius Patzak, Hans Hotter & London Philharmonic Choir)

8 October, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Wagner: eine Faust Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 1 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer (bis)

9 October, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 7

11 October, Geneva

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12 October, Zurich

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Leonore Overture No. III and Symphony No. 7

16, 17 & 18 October, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Höller: Cello concerto No. 2 (Ludwig Hoelscher) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

25 & 26 October, Basel (Basler Orchester)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

17 December, Potsdam - BPO

Mozart: Serenade No. 13 - Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

18, 19 & 20 December, Berlin - BPO

Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Fortner: Violin concerto (Gerhard Taschner) - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Funeral March & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

23 December, Leipzig (Kongresshalle) - GOL

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Leonore Overture No. II & Symphony No. 5

8 & 10 January, Munich (Munich Philharmonic)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 (Schöne, Baier, Kiskalt) - Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2

14 & 15 January, Vienna - WP

Schumann: Manfred, Overture - Korngold: Symphonische Serenade (UA) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

16 January, Vienna - WP

10th ball of the orchestra: Furtwängler conducts an der schönen blauen Donau

28 & 29 January, Vienna - WP

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 9 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

11 & 12 February, Vienna - WP

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Furtwängler, Reznicek, Barylli) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

Milan, Teatro alla Scala

2, 4 & 11 March - Wagner: das Rheingold (Elisabeth Höngen, Ferdinand Frantz, Alois Pernerstorfer, Günther Treptow, etc.)

Broadcast on March 5 by Rete Rossa and on March 14 by Rete Azzurra

9, 13 & 16 March - die Walküre (Kirsten Flagstad, Hilde Konetzni, Günther Treptow, Ferdinand Frantz, Elisabeth Höngen)

Broadcast on March 12 by Rete Rossa and on March 21 by Rete Azzurra

22, 24 & 26 March - Wagner: Siegfried (Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm, Josef Herrmann, Ludwig Weber)

Broadcast on March 26 by Rete Rossa and on March 28 by Rete Azzurra

2, 4 & 6 April - Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Kirsten Flagstad, Max Lorenz, Ludwig Weber, Alois Pernerstorfer)

Broadcast on April 2 by Rete Rossa and on April 4 by Rete Azzurra

Concerts in Buenos Aires
(Orchestra du Teatro Colon)

14 April

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

20 April

Ugarte: Preludio - Strauss: also sprach Zarathustra - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

23 April

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 10 - Bartok: Concerto pour orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

29 April & 2 May

Bach: Matthäus-Passion (Nilda Hoffmann, Margarete Klose, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl)

5 May

Castro: Obertura para una opera comica - Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Margarete Klose) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

6 & 7 May

Bach: Matthäus-Passion (Nilda Hoffmann, Margarete Klose, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl)

8 May, Conference for the Society "the friends of the books" on the problems of the musical life

10 May

Beethoven: Prometheus, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude; Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

14 May, Buenos-Aires (Buenos Aires Symphonic Orchestra)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (soloists?) - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

22 May, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude; Siegfried Idyll; Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Brunnhilde's immolation (Kirsten Flagstad) & Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod (Kirsten Flagstad) - R. Strauss: 4 Last Songs/Vier letzte Lieder (Première - UA) - Kirsten Flagstad

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

24 May, Wiesbaden

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

25 May, Frankfurt am Main

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

26 May, Munich

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

27 May, Stuttgart

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III, Symphonies No. 1 & 3

28 May, Montreux

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

29 May, Lausanne

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

30 May, Geneva

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture No. III - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

31 May, Bern

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

1 June, Basel

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III, Symphonies No. 1 & 3

3 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso op. 6 No. 10 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

4 June, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Beethoven: Leonore II, Symphonies No. 1 & 3 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude from Act 1

Broadcasted Live

6 June, Cologne

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture Nr. III - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

7 June, Viersen

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

8 June, Düsseldorf

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III, Symphonies No.1 & 3

9 June, Bielefeld

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

10 June, Münster

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

11 June, Bremen

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture Nr. III - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

12 June, Hamburg

Haendel: Concerto Grosso op. 6 No. 10 - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

13 June, Hamburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

14 June, Lübeck

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto (Johannes Bork)

15 June, Hanover

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture Nr. II - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

17, 18 & 19 June, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

20 June, Berlin - BPO (Special Concert to the benefit of the Society of the Friends of the Philharmonic)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

22 June, Berlin (Hochschule für Musik) - Conference in the presence of Werner Egk, Director of the Hochschule

13 July(+), Amsterdam & 14 July, Scheveningen (Concertgebouworkest)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & Leonore Overture Nr. III - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

+ Broadcasted Live.

Salzburg Festival (WP)

27 July, Festspielhaus - Mozart: Don Giovanni (Tito Gobbi, Ljuba Welitsch, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Irmgard Seefried, Anton Dermota, Alfred Poell)

29 July, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Erich Kunz, Walther Ludwig, Lisa della Casa, Sieglinde Wagner, Elisabeth Höngen)

31 July, Festspielhaus- Mozart: Don Giovanni (Tito Gobbi, Ljuba Welitsch, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Irmgard Seefried, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, etc.)

3 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Erich Kunz, Josef Greindl, etc. )

4 August, Festspielhaus - Mozart: Don Giovanni (Tito Gobbi, Ljuba Welitsch, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz,Irmgard Seefried, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, etc. )

5 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Julius Patzak, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

9 August

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Hindemith: der Schwanendreher (William Primrose, alto) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Broadcasted Live by Sottens.

Salzburg Festival (WP)

11 & 14 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Julius Patzak, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, etc. )

15 August, Festspielhaus - WP

Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 movements - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

16 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Erich Kunz, Josef Greindl, etc.)

17 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Julius Patzak, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, etc.)

18 August, Festspielhaus - Mozart: Don Giovanni (Tito Gobbi, Ljuba Welitsch, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Irmgard Seefried, Josef Greindl, etc.)

21 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Walther Ludwig, Erich Kunz, Josef Greindl, etc. )

22 August, Festspielhaus - Beethoven: Fidelio (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Julius Patzak, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, etc. )

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

26 & 27 August

Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter, Alois Pernerstorfer)

Broadcasted Live by Beromünster.

Salzburg Festival (WP)

29 August, Festspielhaus

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Tito Gobbi, Annelies Kupper, Esther Rethy, Erich Kunz, Irmgard Seefried, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, etc. )

31 August, Festspielhaus - WP

Bach: Brandenburg concertos Nos. 3 & 5 (Niedermaier, Boskowski, Furtwängler) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

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Season 1950 - 1951

16 & 17 September, Vienna - WP

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Debussy: la Mer - Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

25 September, Stockholm

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Sibelius: En Saga - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

26 September, Stockholm

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Uhl: Caprice No. 3 - Debussy: la Mer - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

27 September, Helsinki

see September 25

28 September, Helsinki

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Uhl: Caprice No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

29 September, Helsinki

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Debussy: la Mer - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

1 October, Copenhagen

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

2 October, Copenhagen

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Debussy: la Mer - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - J. Strauss: Kaiserwalzer

4 October, Hamburg

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Uhl: Caprice - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

5 October, Hamburg

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Debussy: la Mer - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

6 October, Hanover

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

7 October, Amsterdam

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

9 October, The Hague

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Debussy: la Mer - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

10 October, Münster

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 (excerpts) - Sibelius: En Saga - Strauss: Don Juan - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

11 October, Münster

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

12 October, Wuppertal

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Uhl: Caprice No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

13 October, Düsseldorf

Strauss: Don Juan - Uhl: Caprice No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

14 October, Wiesbaden

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 October, Frankfurt am Main

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Debussy: la Mer - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

16 October, Heidelberg

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Willi Boskovsky) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

18 October, Stuttgart

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 October, Munich

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

21 October, Geneva

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

22 October, Bern

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Debussy: la Mer - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

29 & 30 October, Berlin - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Bartok: Concerto for orchestra - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

5 November, Roma (Teatro Argentina) - Orchestra stabile dell'Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 movements - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III & Symphony No. 3

broadcasted Live

8 & 9 November, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. II, Symphonies No. 4 & 5

13 November, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Walton: Scarpino, Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

11 December, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Schubert: Rosamunde, ballet music No. 2 & Interlude No. 3 - Bartok: Concerto for orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

17 December, Berlin (Deutsche Oper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Paula Büchner, Ludwig Suthaus, Josef Greindl)

20, 21 & 22 December, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elfriede Trötschel, Margaret Klose, Rudolf Schock, Josef Greindl & choir of Saint-Hedwig Cathedral)

6, 7, 8 & 10 January, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irmgard Seefried, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Otto Edelmann)

15 January, Vienna - WP

11th ball of the orchestra : Furtwängler conducts the Kaiserwalzer

20 & 21 January, Vienna - WP

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Bartok: Concerto for orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

24 & 25 January, Vienna - das Wiener Symphonie-Orchester

Brahms: ein deutsches Requiem (Irmgard Seefried, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

29 & 31 January, Basel (Basler Orchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

22 February, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 5 (Edwin Fischer)

25 & 26 February, Berlin - BPO

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Trapp: Symphony No. 6 (UA) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

27 February, Berlin (Hochschule für Musik) : Conference

27 February, Berlin - BPO (Concert for the « Schools' Theatre »)

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

5 & 6 March, Zurich (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture; Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber & die Walküre, Act 1 (Hilde Konetzni, Günther Treptow, Josef Greindl)

Concert in Italy

24, 27, 29 March, 1 & 4 April, Milan (Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala)

Wagner: Parsifal (Martha Mödl, Hans Beirer, Otto Edelmann, Silvio Maionica, Josef Greindl)

* The recording of Parsifal doesn't exist. In fact there was a mix up because the very day he conducted Parsifal (Holy Friday), the Italian Radio was on strike and broadcast another Parsifal with Maria Callas, conducted by Vittorio Gui, hence all the confusion.

7 (+), 11, 13 & 15 April, Milan (Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala)

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Giulietta Simionato, Hilde Güden, Magda Gabory)

+ Broadcasted Live.

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

18 April, Cairo

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

19 April, Cairo

Rameau: la Princesse de Navarre - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

20 April, Cairo

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Hindemith: Concerto for orchestra - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

21 April, Cairo

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

22 April, Cairo

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Piano concerto (Magda Tagliaferro) - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

22 April, Cairo

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture Nr. III & Symphony No. 5

23 April, Cairo

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Siegfried Borries) - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

24 April, Alexandria

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

25 April, Alexandria

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

25 April, Alexandria

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber; Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhein Journey & Tannhäuser Overture - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise

30 April, Naples (Teatro San Carlo)

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

1 May, Rome (Auditorium del Foro Italico)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

broadcasted Live.

2 May, Bologna (Teatro Comunale)

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

3 May, Turin (Teatro Alfieri)

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

5 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture (bis)

broadcasted Live

6 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber & Tannhäuser, Overture - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise (bis)

8 May, Viersen

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Hindemith: Concerto pour orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

9 May, Düsseldorf

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

10 May, Dortmund

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

11 May, Essen

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

12 May, Bielefeld

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

13 May, Wolfburg

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Weber: der Freischütz, Overture

14 May, Hanover

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Berlioz: la Damnation de Faust, marche hongroise - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

15 May, Hamburg

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

16 May, Münster

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber & Tannhäuser, Overture

19 & 20 May, Vienna - WP

Walton: Scapino, a comedy overture - Franck: Symphony in D minor - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

26 & 28 June, Zurich (Stadttheater) - das Tonhalle-Orchester

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Kirsten Flagstad,Elsa Cavelti, Max Lorenz, Josef Greindl, Paul Schöffler)

29 July, Festspielhaus de Bayreuth (das Festspielorchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Höngen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann)

Salzburg Festival
(WP)

1 & 6 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz, Paul Schöffler)

7 August, Festspielhaus

Verdi: Othello (Dragica Martinis, Sieglinde Wagner, Ramon Vinay, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler, Josef Greindl)

10 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz, etc.)

11 August, Festspielhaus - Verdi: Othello (Dragica Martinis, Ramon Vinay, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler, etc. )

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

15 August

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Bartok: Concerto for orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Salzburg Festival (WP)

17 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz, Josef Greindl, etc.)

18 August, Festspielhaus - Verdi: Othello (Dragica Martinis, Ramon Vinay, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler, etc. )

19 August, Festspielhaus - WP

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

20 August, Conference: «We and Beethoven»

21 August, Festspielhaus - Verdi: Othello (Dragica Martinis, Ramon Vinay, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler, etc.)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

25 August

Wagner: Götterdämmerung, excerpts (Astrid Varnay, Max Lorenz, Heinz Rehfuss, Josef Greindl)

Salzburg Festival (WP)

29 August, Felsenreitschule - Mozart: die Zauberflöte (Irmgard Seefried, Wilma Lipp, Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz, Josef Greindl, etc. )

30 August, Festspielhaus - Verdi: Otello (Dragica Martinis, Ramon Vinay, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler, etc. )

31 August, Festspielhaus - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irmgard Seefried, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl & choir of the Wiener Staatsoper)

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Season 1951 - 1952

5 September, Berlin (Schiller-Theater) - BPO

Gluck: Alceste, Overture - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elisabeth Grümmer, Gertrude Pitzinger, Peter Anders, Josef Greindl & choir of St-Hedwig Cathedral)

6 & 7 September, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elisabeth Grümmer, Gertrude Pitzinger, Peter Anders, Josef Greindl & choir of St-Hedwig Cathedral)

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

5 October, Montreux

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

6 October, Lausanne

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture, & Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

7 October, Zurich

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

8 October, Basel

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture, & Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

9 October, Paris

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

10 October, Paris & 13 October, Münster

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

14 October, Hamburg

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

15 October, Hanover

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture, & Symphony No. 6 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

16 October, Dortmund

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture & Symphony No. 6 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

17 October, Wuppertal

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

18 October, Düsseldorf

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

* On October 18, the director of the MET of New York Rudolf Bing wrote to Furtwängler and invited him to open the 1952 Season with a new production of Lohengrin and another opera of his choice, for example Tristan und Isolde or Meistersinger. On tour with the Berlin Philharmonic, Furtwängler was told that Toscanini objected in all possible ways to his coming. So, once more his dream to make an American tour with the Berlin Philharmonic vanished.

19 October, Wiesbaden

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

20 October, Heidelberg

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

21 October, Frankfurt am Main

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

22 October, Stuttgart

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

25 October, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Beethoven: Great Fugue & Piano concerto No. 4 (Myra Hess) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

27 October, Hamburg (Stadthalle) - das Sinfonie-Orchester des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks

Brahms Concert: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Double Concerto (Erich Röhn, Arthur Troester) & Symphony No. 1

28 October, Karlsruhe - WP

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 4

29 October, Munich - WP

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 1 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

30 November, 2 & 3 December, Berlin - BPO

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

10 January, Rome (Auditorium del Foro Italico) - Orchestra di Roma della RAI

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

Broadcasted on January 17

14 January, Rome (Auditorium del Foro Italico) - Orchestra di Roma della RAI

Wagner: die Walküre, Act 1 (Hilde Konetzni, Otto von Rohr, Günther Treptow)

Broadcasted on January 15

19 January, Rome (Auditorium del Foro Italico) - Orchestra di Roma della RAI

Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4 (Pietro Scarpini) & Symphony No. 3

Broadcasted Live

23 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: die Walküre ( Hélène Werth, Hilde Konetzni, Georgine von Milinkovic, Ludwig Suthaus, Josef Hofmann)

26, 27 & 28 January, Vienna - WP

Concerts Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn, Double Concerto (Willi Boskowsky, Emmanuel Brabec) & Symphony No. 1

27 January, Vienna (Château de Schönbrunn at 8 p.m.) - WP

Mozart: Piano concerto No. 22 (Paul Badura-Skoda) & Serenade No. 10

30 January, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Anny Konetzni, Georgine von Milinkovic, Ludwig Suthaus, Gottlob Frick)

2, 3 & 4 February, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Hilde Güden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Alfred Poell)

8, 9 & 10 February, Berlin - BPO (Gala Concerts for the orchestra's seventieth birthday)

Beethoven: Great Fugue - Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No. 3 - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Concerts in Italy

29 February, 4, 6, 9 (+), 12 & 16 March, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) - Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Elisabeth Grümmer, Sieglinde Wagner, Hans Beirer, Josef Herrmann, Josef Greindl, Erich Kunz)

+ The performance was broadcasted Live but the recording itself is lost.

3 March, Turin (Auditorium "A" via Montebello) - Orchestra di Torino della RAI

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. III - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

Broadcasted on April 18

7 March, Turin (Sala del Conservatorio) - Orchestra di Torino della RAI

Brahms: Violin concerto (Gioconda de Vito) & Symphony No. 1

Broadcasted Live

11 March, Turin (Sala del Conservatorio) - Orchestra di Torino della RAI

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture & Symphony No. 8 - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Gioconda de Vito) - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

Broadcasted March 15

9, 10 & 11 April, Vienna - WP

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Irmgard Seefried, Julius Patzak, Hilde Rössl-Majdan, Hans Braun, Otto Wiener)

18, 19 & 20 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

24 April, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Wagner: 5 Wesendonck-Lieder (Kirsten Flagstad) & Götterdammerung, «Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort» (Kirsten Flagstad)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

26 April, Hamburg

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No. 3 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture

27 April, Kiel

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Great Fugue, Symphonies No. 8 & 5

28 April, Bremen

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Great Fugue - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

29 April, Hanover

Beethoven: Cavatina from the Quartet opus 130, Great fugue & Symphony No. 5 - Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No. 3 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

30 April, Krefeld

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Great Fugue - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

2 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No. 3 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture (bis)

3 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Great Fugue - Brahms: Double Concerto (Josef Szigeti & Pierre Fournier) & Symphony No. 2 - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude (bis)

5 May, Baden-Baden

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Cavatina from the Quartet opus 130 & Great Fugue - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

6 May, Freiburg

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture & Great Fugue - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

7 May, Munich

Beethoven: Great Fugue - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

8 May, Stuttgart

Beethoven: Cavatina from the Quartet op.130 & Great Fugue - Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No. 3 - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

9 May, Landau

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

10 May, Heidelberg

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

11 May, Frankfurt am Main

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

12 May, Bonn

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 7

13 May, Viersen

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

14 May, Essen

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 May, Düsseldorf

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

16 May, Bielefeld

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Cavatina from the Quartet opus 130 & Great Fugue - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

17 May, Münster

Weber: Oberon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole - Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

24 May, Berlin - BPO

Berlioz: le Carnaval romain - Debussy: Nocturnes (Nuages, Fêtes) - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

25 May, Berlin - BPO (afternoon)

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 - Bach: Violin concerto No. 2 (Yehudi Menuhin) - Mendelssohn: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

26 May, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. II, Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) & Symphony No. 5

Concerts in Italy

31 May, Turin (Auditorium del Foro Italico) - Orchestra di Roma della RAI

Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Act 3 (Kirsten Flagstad, Hilde Konetzni, Ludwig Suthaus, Josef Greindl & Coro della RAI di Roma)

broadcasted Live

4 June, Turin (Teatro Alfieri) - Orchestra di Torino della RAI

Brahms: Double Concerto (Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Enrico Mainardi) & Symphony No. 2

6 June, Turin (Sala del Conservatorio) - Orchestra di Torino della RAI

Wagner: der fliegende Holländer, Overture; Siegfried-Idyll & Götterdämmerung, Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt/Rhine journey - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

broadcasted Live

29 June, Zurich (Stadttheater) - das Tonhalle Orchester

Wagner: die Walküre (Gertrud Grob-Prandl, Hélène Werth, Elsa Cavelti, Josef Greindl)

Whilst rehearsing at the Salzburg Festival, he caught pneumonia and had to interrupt his activity for four months. He should have conducted:

Le Nozze di Figaro: 26 July, 2, 8, 23 & 29 August
die Zauberflöte: 31 July, 7, 18 & 26 August
Otello: 29 July, 4, 16, 22 & 28 August

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Season 1952 - 1953

29 & 30 November, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Alfred Poell) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

7, 8 & 9 December, Berlin - BPO

Weber: der Freischütz, Overture - Hindemith: die Harmonie der Welt - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

16 December, Frankfurt am Main (Orchester des Hessischen Rundfunks)

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2

19 December, Turin [Broadcasted Live] (Nuovo Auditorium RAI) - Orchestra di Torino della RAI

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Margaret Klose, Anton Dermota, Otto Edelmann & Coro della RAI di Torino + Coro della RAI di Milano)

15 January, Hamburg; 16 January, Bremen; 17 January, Duisburg; 18 January, Mannheim; 19 January, Essen, 20 January, Bielefeld - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 - Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2

23 January, Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

* During the Adagio Furtwängler fainted and the concert was interrupted. The soloists of the fourth movement (that didn't take place) were Irmgard Seefried, Rosette Anday, Anton Dermota and Paul Schöffler. The concerts of January 24 & 25 were cancelled and postponed until January 30 & 31, with the same soloists.

8, 9 & 10 February, Berlin - BPO

Bach: Suite No. 2 (Aurèle Nicolet, flute) - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Stravinsky: Petite Suite No 1 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

15 & 17 February, Vienna - WP

Wagner: Götterdämmerung, excerpts (Anny Konetzni, Gottlob Frick, Ludwig Suthaus, Elisabeth Höngen)

21 & 22 February, Vienna - WP

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2

25 February, Winterthur (Winterthurer Stadtorchester)

Franck: Symphony in D minor - Schoeck: Summernight - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Concert programme of 25 February 1953

2 & 3 March, Zurich (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4 and 3

24 March, Kassel (Staatskapelle Orchester)

Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

27 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 7

12, 13 & 14 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

16 April, Hamburg

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

17 April, Kiel

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

18 April, Dortmund

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 April, Cologne

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

20 April, Brussels

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

22 April, London (Royal Albert Hall)

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

24 April, Düsseldorf

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

25 April, Essen

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

26 April, Hanover

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Schoeck: Summernight - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

28 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

30 April, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Leonore Overture No. III & Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod (bis)

2 May, Baden-Baden

Bach: Suite No. 2 - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

7 May, Munich

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Yehudi Menuhin) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

8 May, Landau

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

9 May, Ludwigshafen

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

10 May, Frankfurt am Main

Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Strauss: Don Juan - Brahms: Symphony No. 2

17, 18 & 19 May, Berlin - BPO

Stravinsky: le Baiser de la Fée - Beethoven: Violin concerto (Wolfgang Schneiderhan) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

29 & 30 May (+) (15h), Vienna - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irmgard Seefried, Rosette Anday, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler)

+ Broadcasted Live.

31 May, 3 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. (Gala) - Vienna (WP)

Beethoven : Leonore-Overture Nr. II & Symphony No. 9 (Irmgard Seefried, Rosette Anday, Anton Dermota, Paul Schöffler)

* It is not clear whether Irmgard Seefried sang twice that same day

1 June, Linz - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Hilde Zadek, Elisabeth Höngen, Anton Dermota, Alfred Poell)

Salzburg Festival (WP)

27 July & 3 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Cesare Siepi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Otto Edelmann)

7 August, Festspielhaus

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Hilde Güden, Erich Kunz, Paul Schöffler)

8 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, etc. )

11 August, Festspielhaus

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Hilde Güden, Erich Kunz, Paul Schöffler, etc. )

12 August, Mozarteum

Wolf Lieder evening on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Furtwängler, piano

18 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, etc. )

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

22 August

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Hindemith: die Harmonie der Welt - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Edwin Fischer)

26 August

Schumann: Manfred, Overture & Symphony No. 4 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

Broadcasted Live by Sottens and Monte Ceneri

Salzburg Festival (WP)

28 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, etc. )

29 August, Festspielhaus

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Hilde Güden, Erich Kunz, Paul Schöffler, etc.)

30 August, concert (Festspielhaus)

Strauss: Don Juan - Hindemith: die Harmonie der Welt - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

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Season 1953 - 1954

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

4 September, Munich (Deutsches Museum) - WP

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & 3

Concerts at the Edinburgh Festival

6 & 7 September, Edinburgh (Usherhall) - WP

Beethoven: Egmont, Overture; Symphonies No. 4 & 5

9 September, Edinburgh (Usherhall) - WP

Wagner: die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude - Hindemith: die Harmonie der Welt - Schubert: Symphony No. 9

11 September, Edinburgh (Usherhall) - WP

Strauss: Don Juan - Bartok: Violin concerto No. 2 (Yehudi Menuhin) - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15, 16 & 17 September, Berlin - BPO (Berliner Festwochen)

Schubert Concerts: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 and 9

19 September, Kiel (Ostseehalle) - WP

Strauss: Don Juan - Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12, 15 & 18 October, Vienna (Staatsoper)

Beethoven: Fidelio (Alfred Poell, Otto Edelmann, Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl, Sena Jurinac)

Rome (Auditorium del Foro Italico) - Orchestra e coro di Roma della RAI

26 October

Wagner: der Rheingold (Ferdinand Frantz, Alfred Poell, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Ira Malaniuk, Elisabeth Grümmer, Sena Jurinac)

broadcasted Live

29 October (Act 1), 3 November (Act 2) & 6 November (Act 3)

Wagner: die Walküre (Wolfgang Windgassen, Ferdinand Frantz, Gottlob Frick, Hilde Konetzni, Martha Mödl, Elsa Cavelti)

10 November (Act 1), 13 November (Act 2) & 17 November (Act 3)

Wagner: Siegfried (Ludwig Suthaus, Julius Patzak, Ferdinand Frantz, Josef Greindl, Margarete Klose, Martha Mödl)

20 November (Act 1), 24 November (Act 2) & 27 November (Act 3)

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Ludwig Suthaus, Alfred Poell, Josef Greindl, Martha Mödl, Sena Jurinac, Margarete Klose)

These opera performances were broadcast as follows:

die Walküre: Act 1 on October 30, Act 2 on November 4, Act 3 on November 6
Siegfried: Act 1 on November 11, Act 2 on November 13, Act 3 on November 18
Götterdämmerung: Act 1 on November 20, Act 2 on November 25, Act 3 on November 27

16 November

Private concert at the Vatican (Sala del Concistoro) for Pope Pius XII on the occasion of the «Mass for Artists». Furtwängler and Gioconda de Vito played the Brahms Sonata n° 1 opus 78

26 November

Private concert in Castelgandolfo for Pius XII. Furtwängler and Gioconda de Vito played the Brahms Sonata n° 2 opus 100

6, 7 & 8 December, Berlin - BPO

Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

12 & 13 December, Vienna (MVS) - WP

Franck: Symphony in D minor - Hindemith: die Harmonie der Welt - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

* During his absence lasting three months, Furtwängler recovers from a flu in Baden-Baden, at the Sanatorium of Ebersteinburg.

12 March, London (Royal Albert Hall) - Philharmonia Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Leonore II & Symphony No. 5

Concerts in Caracas
(Venezuela Symphony Orchestra)

19 March (Amfiteatro José Angel Lamas)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

* It's not clear if the Brahms Symphony No. 1 was played on that day...

21 March (Amfiteatro José Angel Lamas)

Haendel: Concerto grosso No. 10 - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 1

26 March, Zurich (das Tonhalle Orchester)

Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

30 March, Stuttgart (Sinfonie-Orchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks)

Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

1 April, Hamburg - BPO

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture, Symphonies No. 8 & 9

2 April, Hamburg; 4, 5 & 6 April, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 & Leonore Overture No. II - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Erik Then-Bergh)

10 & 11 April, Vienna (MVS) - WP

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

14, 15, 16 & 17 April, Vienna (Konzert Haus) - WP

Bach: Matthew-Passion (Elisabeth Grümmer, Elisabeth Höffgen, Anton Dermota, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

25, 26 & 27 April, Berlin - BPO

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Blacher: Concertante Musik - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

28 April, Hanover

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

29 April, Bielefeld

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8

30 April, Cologne

Haendel: Concerto grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

3 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Blacher: Concertante Musik - Strauss: Don Juan - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture & Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod (bis)

4 May, Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

broadcasted Live

5 May, Lyon (Théâtre de l'Opéra)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

6 May, Geneva

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture

7 May, Lausanne

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

8 May, Milano (Teatro alla Scala)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture

9 May, Milano (Teatro alla Scala)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

10 May, Florence (Teatro Comunale)

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

11 May, Perugia (Teatro Morlacchi)

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche- Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

12 May, Roma (Teatro Argentina)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

14 May, Torino (Auditorium della RAI)

Weber: Euryanthe, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod & Tannhäuser, Overture (bis)

Broadcasted Live

15 May, Lugano

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 (Yvonne Lefébure) - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Broadcasted Live

16 May, Zurich

Haendel: Concerto Grosso opus 6 No. 5 - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

17 May, Friburg en Brisgau

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

18 May, Baden-Baden

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Blacher: Concertante Musik - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Vorspiel und Isoldes Liebestod

19 May, Karlsruhe

Cherubini: Anacreon, Overture - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

20 May, Mannheim

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

21 May, Kassel

Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Haydn & Symphony No. 3 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

23, 24 & 25 May, Berlin - BPO

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 6 & 5

30 May, Vienna (MVS) - WP

Schubert: Rosamunde, Overture; Symphonies No. 8 & 9

2 June, Geneva & 3 June, Lausanne - Orchestre de la Suisse romande

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4 & 3

Salzburg Festival (WP)

26 & 30 July, Festspielhaus

Weber: der Freischütz (Alfred Poell, Oskar Czerwenka, Elisabeth Grümmer, Rita Streich, Kurt Böhme, Hans Hopf)

3 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Deszö Ernster, Cesare Siepi, Anton Dermota, Elisabeth Grümmer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf)

5 August, Festspielhaus

Weber: der Freischütz (Elisabeth Grümmer, Rita Streich, Hans Hopf, Kurt Böhme, Alfred Poell, etc.)

6 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Deszö Ernster, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Paul Grümmer, Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Anton Dermota, etc.)

Bayreuth Festival

9 August, Bayreuth (das Festspielhaus Orchester)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Gre Brouwenstijn, Ira Malaniuk, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ludwig Weber)

Salzburg Festival (WP)

10 & 13 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Deszö Ernster, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Grümmer, Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Anton Dermota, etc.)

16 August, Festspielhaus

Weber: der Freischütz (Elisabeth Grümmer, Rita Streich, Hans Hopf, Kurt Böhme, Alfred Poell, etc. )

18 August, Felsenreitschule

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Deszö Ernster, Cesare Siepi, Anton Dermota, Elisabeth Grümmer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, etc.)

Lucerne Festival

21 & 22 (+) August, Philharmonia Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elsa Cavelti, Ernst Häfliger, Otto Edelmann)

+ Broadcasted Live by Sottens, Beromünster and Monte Ceneri.

25 August (das Festspielorchester)

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

28 August, Salzburg (Festspielhaus)

Weber: der Freischütz (Elisabeth Grümmer, Rita Streich, Hans Hopf, Kurt Böhme, Alfred Poell, etc.)

30 August, Salzburg (Festspielhaus) - WP

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Great Fugue & Symphony No. 7

6 September, Besançon (Théâtre municipal) - Orchestre de l'ORTF

Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture; Symphonies No. 6 & 5

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Season 1954 - 1955

* On September 13, Furtwängler attended in Dortmund the rehearsals of his own second symphony conducted by Rolf Agop.

19 & 20 September, Berlin - BPO (last concerts at the Berliner Festwochen)

Furtwängler: Symphony No. 2 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

* Furtwängler went to Gastein to treat his hearing problems. On the way back to Clarens, he caught a cold. On November 12, he was hospitalised in Baden-Baden where he died on November 30. He is buried at the cemetery of Heidelberg.

* The following concerts were planned with the Vienna Philharmonic for the 1954/1955 Season

8 & 9 January: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9.

23 & 24 April: Mendelssohn: die Hebriden, Overture - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Wagner: Parsifal, Karfreitagszauber - Liszt: les Préludes

14 & 15 May: Haydn: Symphony No. 100 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

He also should have made a tour to America in March 1955 with the Berlin Philharmonic. Karajan went instead.

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Announcement of a concert in Boston on March 24 1955 that never took place...

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The Concerts

Zurich 1906 - 1907

Strasburg 1910 - 1911

Lübeck

Lübeck - Season 1911 - 1912

Lübeck - Season 1912 - 1913

Lübeck - Season 1913 - 1914

Lübeck - Season 1914 - 1915

Mannheim 1915-1920

Season 1915 - 1916

An "unknown" chapter: Furtwängler in Lille - 1916

The "Deutsches Theater"

Season 1916 - 1917

Season 1917 - 1918

Season 1918 - 1919

Season 1919 - 1920

Season 1920 - 1921

Concerts in Scandinavia

Concerts in Scandinavia

Season 1921 - 1922

Concerts in Italy

Hamburg: Fifth Brahms Festival

Season 1922 - 1923

Swiss tour of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (90 musicians)

Season 1923 - 1924

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Munich Festival

Season 1924 - 1925

First American Tour (10 concerts with the NYPO)

Concerts in Scandinavia

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Görlitz Festival (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)

Season 1925 - 1926

Second American tour (31 concerts with the NYPO)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Heidelberg Brahms Festival

Season 1926 - 1927

Third American Tour (33 concerts with the NYPO)

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Heidelberg Beethoven Festival

Season 1927 - 1928

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Heidelberg and Görlitz Festivals

Season 1928 - 1929

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Heidelberg Festival

Seventh Brahms Festival in Jena

Berlin Festival 1929

Season 1929 - 1930

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic

Tour of the Vienna Philharmonic

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Season 1930 - 1931

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic

Bayreuth Festival (the Festival Orchestra)

Season 1931 - 1932

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Concerts for the 50 years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for its 50th anniversary

Season 1932 - 1933

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Brahms Festival

Season 1933 - 1934

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Season 1934 - 1935

Season 1935 - 1936

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Bayreuth Festival

Season 1936 - 1937

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Bayreuth Festival (the Festspielorchester)

Season 1937 - 1938

An "unknown" chapter:
Furtwängler in Lille - 1916

Swiss tour of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus (90 musicians)

First American Tour
(10 concerts with the NYPO)

Görlitz Festival
(Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)

Second American tour
(31 concerts with the NYPO)

Third American Tour
(33 concerts with the NYPO)

Bayreuth Festival
(the Festival Orchestra)

Concerts for the 50 years of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
for its 50th anniversary

Scandinavian Tour of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Scandinavian Tour of the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Concerts in Great Britain with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Concerts in Buenos Aires
(Orchestra del Teatro Colon)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Beethoven cycle in the
London Albert Hall (WP)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Concerts in Buenos Aires
(Orchestra du Teatro Colon)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Salzburg Festival
(WP)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)

Lucerne Festival
(das Festspielorchester)