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Bamberg (dpa / lby) - The Bamberg Symphony is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a concert.
The performance on March 18 is to be broadcast live on BR-Klassik and ARD-alpha.
"If the audience can't come to the celebration, the celebration comes to the audience," announced the Bamberg Symphony on Friday.
The orchestra with honorary conductor Christoph Eschenbach wants to repeat the program that should have been played 75 years ago.
In March 1946 the overture "Leonore No. 3" by Ludwig van Beethoven and his violin concerto were heard.
The Bamberg Symphony also plays Beethoven's 3rd Symphony "Eroica", which was not approved by the American military administration at the time.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, former members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague met colleagues in Bamberg who had had to flee their homeland.
They founded the “Bamberg Tonkünstlerorchester”, which was renamed a short time later.
Since then, the Bamberg Symphony has played almost 7,500 concerts worldwide.
Jakub Hrusa has been the chief conductor since 2016.
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