When Vienna's ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra marks its 50th anniversary with a special concert on Wednesday, it will be under the baton of its new chief conductor who, for the first time in Austria, is ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will return to a French family a valuable painting that was looted by the Nazis and given to the orchestra as a gift in 1940 by a Viennese secret ...

The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi ...

The Vienna Philharmonic has asked three historians to research the orchestra’s alleged Nazi past. The announcement on Jan. 22 comes after Harald Walser, a historian and Parliament member for the ...

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra has announced today that the successor to Philippe Jordan will be Colombian-born Andrés Orozco-Estrada. He will officially start his tenure with the 2021/22 season while ...

Was there ever a musical organization more steeped in history - with all the ethical and political quandaries that come along with that - than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra? There has never been ...

They impart the sort of awe you would feel if the great-great-grandniece of Johannes Brahms came to town to give a piano recital, or if you toured the studio of a wise old violin maker whose line of ...