Orchestral Flutist List
Flute students at Northern Arizona University compiled this list for a flute literature course research project. The list includes the historical lineage of flutists who have served in the sections of numerous major orchestras throughout the world. Some students have also included the lineage of conductors for these orchestras. This resource is intended to help flutists choose appropriate recordings when studying their orchestral literature.
THE HISTORY OF PRINCIPAL FLUTISTS AND CONDUCTORS IN TEN OF THE WORLD’S LEADING ORCHESTRAS
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
(founded 1916)
Past Principal Flutists:
Henry Clay
Wysham (1916-1945)
Britton
Johnson (1945-1978)
Timothy
Day (1978-1987)
Mark Sparks
(1987-1988)
Emily Skala
(1988-present)
Past Conductors:
Gustav Strube
(1917-1930)
American
conductor, composer, violinist and teacher of German birth
Distinguished
by skillful craftsmanship, melodic charm and strong sense of
tonality
George Siemonn
(1930-1935)
Ernest Schelling
(1935-1937)
Werner Janssen
(1937-1939)
American
conductor and composer
Conducted
many other major orchestras across the U.S. and around the world
Howard Barlow
(1939-1942)
Reginald
Stewart (1942-1952)
Massimo
Freccia (1952-1959)
Peter Herman
Adler (1959-1968)
American
conductor
Pioneer
director of TV Opera in the U.S. and commissioned many works for
that purpose (NBC-TV Opera Company and WNET)
Sergiu Comissiona
(1968-1985)
Israeli
and American conductor of Romanian birth
Clear
preference for Romantic and Impressionistic rep.
David Zinman
(1985-1998)
American
conductor
Made
important recordings and transformed BSO into a leading institution
Yuri Temirkanov
(1998-present)
Russian
conductor
Fondness
for bold instrumental colors and strong emotional charge
Boston Symphony
Edward
Heindl 1881 - 1887, Had an original Boehm flute, and a brother in the Vienna
Philharmonic.
Charles Molé, 1887 - 1895 (to St Louis?),
Léon Jacquet 1896 - 1898 (death),
Andre Maquarre 1898 - 1918 (to Philadelphia), wrote an etude book, one of the
first Americans to play on an Open-holed flute, his brother, David, was also
a flutist and played in the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra before him.
George Laurent 1918 - 1952,
Doriot Dwyer 1952-1990, Former principal flute of the Boston Symphony (1952-1990),
the first woman ever permanently appointed to a principal chair of a major
symphony orchestra. Flute studies with Ernest Leigl, Georges Barriere,
William Kincaid, Joseph Mariano. Previously a member of the National
Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Charter member: Boston Symphony
Chamber Players. Solo performances with the Boston Symphony and other
orchestras in this country and abroad. Recipient of Sanford Fellowship
from Yale School of Music in 1975. Solo recitals in Alice Tully Hall
and Sanders Theater. Nominated to the Women's Hall of Fame. Accepted
Woman of Achievement Award on behalf of her ancestor, Susan B. Anthony.
Jacques
Zoon 1997-2002 Boston Symphony Orchestra, principal
flute, Concertgebouw Orchest Amsterdam, principal flute, Residentie Orchest
Den Haag, principal flute, Professor of Flute, New England Conservatory, Boston
University, University of Indiana, Rotterdams Conservatorium, Prize winner
at the J.P. Rampal, Scheveningen International, and Willem Pijper Competitions,
Recording artist for Decca, Phillips, Vanguard and others
Elizabeth Rowe 2003-present Elizabeth Rowe first began playing the flute at
age seven while growing up in Eugene, Oregon. She has been performing professionally
for several years, having last held the position of Principal Flute with the
Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Indiana and spent two seasons as Assistant Principal
Flute with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth gives of her time as
a volunteer at the local branch of the House of Ruth, a women’s shelter.
She also enjoys spending time reading and rehearsing. Check back with
the BSO site at the beginning of the new season to find out more about this
new addition to the Symphony.
The Rest of the BSO section:
Fenwick Smith
Fenwick Smith, second flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1978,
spent four of those years as acting assistant principal flute. A member of
the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1984, he has also performed on Baroque
flute with Boston's leading early-music ensembles, and was for thirteen years
a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. Mr. Smith
often includes chamber music on his annual Jordan Hall recitals, which, after
24 seasons, are a prominent feature of Boston's concert calendar. In recent
years Mr. Smith has introduced to Boston audiences Lukas Foss' Renaissance
Concerto and the flute concertos of John Harbison and Christopher Rouse.
His adventuresome discography includes premiere recordings of works by Copland,
Foote, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Schulhoff, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Rorem
and Reinecke.
Mr. Smith teaches at the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music
Center; during his 1997-1998 sabbatical leave from the BSO he was also Visiting
Professor of Flute at the University of Michigan.
Boston has long been a world center of flute making. Mr. Smith worked for 12
years for Verne Q. Powell Flutes, Inc., and plays a Powell flute of his own
construction. Although he gave up flute making when he joined the BSO, his
interest in working with his hands has since found a very different outlet:
he designed a solar-tempered post-and-beam house which he built during the
summer seasons in the woods of Richmond, Massachusetts, six miles from Tanglewood.
This enterprise is described in a chapter of The Builder's Secret: Learning
the Art of Living Through the Craft of Building, by George Ehrerhaft. In another
recent undertaking, Mr. Smith has converted the former Roslindale Masonic Lodge
to a state-of-the-art venue for acoustic recording.
Elizabeth Ostling
Associate Principal Flute, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Principal Flute, Boston Pops Orchestra
Elizabeth Ostling joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal
flute in September 1994 and was named associate principal flute starting with
the 1997-98 season, after having served as acting principal since March 1995.
She is also principal flute of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Ms. Ostling grew
up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and graduated in May 1994 from the Curtis Institute
of Music in Philadelphia, where she was a student of Julius Baker and Jeffrey
Khaner. During her freshman year at Curtis she won first prize in the quadrennial
Koussevitzky Competition for Woodwinds in New York City. As a Fellow at the
Tanglewood Music Center she was the featured soloist during Tanglewood's annual
Festival of Contemporary Music in Michael Gandolfi's chamber concerto, Caution
to the Wind. Ms. Ostling has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops
Orchestra, performing Griffes' Poem; she has also performed the Ibert concerto
with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, spent a summer with the National Repertory
Orchestra of Colorado, and was a featured soloist on the "Young Artists
Showcase" over WQXR in New York and on numerous nationally syndicated
radio broadcasts from Curtis. A frequent performer in solo and chamber recitals,
Ms. Ostling has appeared locally with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and
the Boston Artists Ensemble. She has premiered two works written expressly
for her: Michael Gandolfi's Geppetto's Workshop for flute and piano,
in 1998 in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory; and Dan Coleman's Pavanes
and Symmetries, in April 2001 with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra.
Past Conductors:
Georg Henschel(1881-84)
Wilhelm Gericke, (1884-1889)
Arthur Nikisch, (1889-93)
Emil Paur,
Max Fiedler
Karl Muck(1906-08; 1912-18)
Henri Rabaud
Pierre Monteux(1919-24)
Serge Koussevitzky (1924-49)
Charles Munch (1949-62)
Erich Leinsdorf(1962-69)
William Steinberg(1969-73)
Seiji Ozawa(1973-2002)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Founded 1890, making it the third oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S. (behind
the NY Phil and the St. Louis SO)
Past Principal Flutists:
Vigo Anderson
(1891-1895)
Edwin Timmons
(1895)
A. Buchheim
(1895-1896)
Alfred Quensel
(1896-1926)
Theodore
Yeschke (1926-1928)
Ernest Liegl
(1928-1944)
Harvey Noack
(1944-1946)
Rene Rateau
(1946-1951)
Julius Baker
(1951-1953)
Ernest Liegl
(1953-1957)
Donald Peck
(1957-1999)
Mathieu
Dufour (1999-present)
Past Conductors:
Theodore
Thomas (1890-1905)
American
conductor of German birth
Helped
to found the CSO
Frederick
Stock (1905-1942)
American
conductor of German birth
Longest tenure in the CSO’s history
Forward-looking
repertory (Schoenberg, Debussy, Hindemith, Prokofiev...)
Desire Defauw
(1943-1947)
American
conductor and violinist of Belgian birth
Considered
his country’s (Belgium) leading conductor at the time
Artur Rodzinski
(1947-1950)
American
conductor of Polish descent
Staged
operas in place of regular concerts- highly successful
Rafael Kubelik
(1950-1953)
Swiss
conductor and composer of Czech birth
Conducted
many orchestras worldwide and won numerous awards
Fritz Reiner
(1953-1964)
American
conductor of Hungarian birth
Taught
at Curtis Institute, Phil. (pupils included Bernstein and Foss)
Jean Martinon
(1964-1969)
French
conductor and composer
Favored
French composers (also the works of Bartok and Prokofiev)
Georg Solti
(1969-1989)
British
conductor of Hungarian birth
Daniel Barenboim
(1989-present)
Israeli
conductor, born in Buenos Aires
Performances
emphasize freedom of expression and allow for many changes
and liberties to be taken
Cleveland Orchestra
Principal Flutists:
Costa
Clappe 1918-1919
Joseph Fiore 1919
Weyert Moor 1919-1931
Maurice
Sharp 1931-1945
Bernard
Goldberg 1945-1946
Martin Heylman 1946-1947
Maurice
Sharp 1946-1983
Jeff Khaner 1982-1990
Joshua Smith 1990-
present
He was born in 1969 and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He worked
closely with renowned pedagogue Frank Bowen and then attended Philadelphia's
Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner.
In 1990, while he was still a student at Curtis, he was invited by conductor
Christoph von Dohnányi to join The Cleveland Orchestra as Principal
Flute.
Conductors
Nikolai Sokoloff (position held from 1918-1933) – He is a Ukranian-American conductor. He was a violinist in the Boston Symphony before assuming conductorship of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1918.
Artur Rodzinski (1933-1942) – He was born in Poland
in 1892 and became
conductor of Lvov Municipal Opera in 1920. In 1925 he became assistant
conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1933 he assumed the position
of
conductor for the Cleveland Orchestra. After Cleveland he continued on
to
become conductor of Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra of New York and the
Chicago Symphony.
Erich Leinsdorf (1943-1946) – He was born in Vienna
and after his musical
studies there he became an assistant to Bruno Walter at the Salzburg Festival. He
came to New York to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera. After New York
he
proceded to Cleveland in 1943. His last three major positions were the
Rochester
Philarmonic, the New York City Opera and Metropolitan, and the Boston
Symphony.
George Szell (1946-1970) – He was born in Budapest,
Hungary and was a child
prodigy as a pianist and composer. He made his conducting debut with
the Berlin
Philharmonic at age 17, conducting his own music. He came to the United
States
and started off guest conducting. He took his post at Cleveland in 1946. It
is said
that he built this group into one of the greatest ensembles of the world.
Pierre Boulez (1970-1972) – Born in France he studied
at the Paris
Conservatoire. He served as Principal Guest conductor and Music advisor
for the Cleveland Orchestra from 1970-1972.
Lorin Maazel (1972-1983) – He was born in France but
was raised in the United
States. He was a child prodigy as a violinst, pianist, and conductor. He
made his
conducting debut at age 8 and at age 12 he conducted the New York
Philharmonic. He arrived in Cleveland in 1972 to conduct the orchestra. He
is
known for is musicianship and intense interpretations of the classical repertoire.
Christoph von Dohnányi (1984-2002) – He was
born in Berlin and was a law
student at the University of Munich, but soon chose to pursue music. He
won the
Richard Strauss Prize of Munich for conducting. He was the sixth Music
Director
of the Cleveland Orchestra and became Music Director Laureate at the beginning
of the 2002-03 season.
Franz Welser-Möst (2002-present) – His rise to
international fame as a conductor began in 1986 when he made his debut with
the London Philharmonic. While with the Cleveland Orchestra he still
works regularly with the Vienna
Philharmonic.
Detroit Symphony
Principal Flutists:
Charles
North 1919-1920
Anton Fayer 1920-1921
Theodore
Yeschke 1921-1922
Justus Gelfius 1922-1923
Albert Harzer 1923-1925
John Wummer 1935-1937
Carmine
Coppola 1937-1941
Sebastian
Caratelli 1947-1949
Roger Stevens
Otto Krueger 1952
James Pellerite
1952-1956
Albert Tipton 1956-1968
Ervin Monroe 1968-present
He has performed with the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia
and the Royal and Bolshoi Ballets. He has served as President of the
National Flute Association and was a consulting editor for The Flutist
Quarterly, that organization's official magazine.
Conductors
Weston Gales (1914-1917) – He was a 27-year old organist
from Boston
who had conducted concerts in Europe when he was invited by Miss
Frances Sibley, a member of a prominent Detroit family, to be the first
full-time conductor of Detroit’s orchestra.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1918-1936) – He was an internationally known Russian pianist whose presence gave the Detroit Symphony instant credibility. He threatened to quit if they didn’t provide the orchestra with a permanent home. He was friends to Mahler and Rachmaninoff and was the son-in-law of Mark Twain.
Franco Ghione (1936-1940) – He came from an operatic background. He didn’t speak English and he would often explode in frustration when he was misunderstood during rehearsals.
Victor Kolar (1940-1942) – He was in the shadow of Gabrilowitsch for a while but his many contributions were notable. He implemented a plan for free concerts and symphony broadcasts for Michigan school children and his early recordings with the DSO.
Karl Krueger (1944-1949) – He was the former assistant
conductor of the Vienna state Opera. After he quit because of politics
within the organization the DSO
disbanded once again.
Paul Paray (1951-1962) – He was brought to Detroit
by John B. Ford to lead the
orchestra. Paray turned the orchestra around and brought it back to the
way it
used to be.
Sixten Erhling (1963-1973) – He is a native of Sweden
and replaced Paray. He
conducted 722 concerts, the most by a DSO music director. He is known
for his
expansive repertoire and led the Orchestra in performing 24 world premieres
and playing a total of 664 compositions.
Aldo Ceccato (1977-1981) – He was an Italian who introduced about 46 new works while conducting the DSO.
Antal Dorati (1977-1981) - He was a Hungarian-born American. His DSO recording of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was the first CD to win the Grand Prix du Disque.
Günther Herbig (1984-1990)
Neeme Järvi (1991-present) – He is Estonian born
and attended the St.
Petersburg Conservatory. With his magnetism and musicianship he was breathing
new life into the orchestra and ticket sales doubled and broadcast syndication
has nearly tripled. His fellow musicians and audience members consider
him one of the most inspired conductors of his generation.
Past and Current Principle Flutists of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jay Plow (1919-1921)
Andre Maquarre (1922-1929)
Julius Furman (1929-1934)
Anthony Linden (1934-1944)
Leonard Posella (1945-1947)
George Drexler (1947-1971)
Roger Stevens (1971-1976)
Anne Diener (1971 -)
James Walker (1977-1984)
Janet Ferguson (1985- present)
taken from http://hometown.aol.com/johnwion/orchestra.html
Past and Present Conductors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walter
Henry Rothwell (1919-1927)
Georg Schnéevoigt (1927 -1929)
Artur Rodzinski (1929 -1933)
Otto Klemperer (1933 -1939)
Alfred Wallenstein (1943 -1956)
Eduard van Beinum (1956 -1959)
Zubin Mehta <http://wdch.LAPhil.com/about/performer_detail.cfm?id=101> (1962
-1978)
Carlo Maria Giulini (1978 -1984)
Andr Previn <http://wdch.LAPhil.com/about/performer_detail.cfm?id=457> (1985
-1989)
Esa-Pekka Salonen <http://wdch.LAPhil.com/about/performer_detail.cfm?id=1> (1992
- present)
London Symphony Orchestra
founded 1904
Past Principal Flutists:
Daniel Wood
(1904-1926)
Eli Hudson
(1926)
Gordon Walker
(1926-1946)
Edward Walker
(1946-1954)
Alexander
Murray (1955-1967)
James Galway
(1967)
Peter Lloyd
(1967-1987)
` Paul Edmund Davies
(1987-1993)
Michael
Cox (1993-1998)
Garth Davies
(1998-present)
Past Conductors:
Hans Richter
(1904-1911)
Austro-Hungarian
conductor
Most
prominent musical personality of his day
Sir Thomas
Beecham (?)
English
conductor
Founded
many orchestras and opera companies
Pierre Monteux
(1961-1983)
American
conductor of French birth
Worked
for Dyagilev’s Ballets Russes and conducted the premieres of many
ballets including Rite of Spring, Petrushka, Daphnis and Chloe)
Claudio
Abbado (1983-1986)
Italian
conductor
Wide
repertory range (including complete works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler,
Mendelssohn, Schubert, Ravel (orchestral) and many other opera recordings)
Sir Colin
Davis (1995-present)
English
conductor (mostly of operas)
Recorded
over 20 complete operas (all Berlioz and top Mozart operas)
Past and Present Principle Flutists of the Minnesota Symphony
William Nelson (1903-1905)
Max Guetter (1905-1909)
Carl Woempner (1909-1915 (death))
Leonardo De Lorenzo (1915 - 1919)
Henry Woempner (1919-1934 (to San Francisco))
Emil Opava (1935-1944)
Emil Niosi (1944-1945)
Rene Rateau (1945-1946 (to Chicago))
Emil Opava (1946-1951)
Burnett Atkinson (1951-1952)
Samuel Baron (1952-1953)
Emil Opava (1953-1969)
Sidney Zeitlin (1969-1990)
Adam Kuenzel (1990 - present)
taken from http://hometown.aol.com/johnwion/orchestra.html
Past and Present Conductors of the Minnesota Orchestra
Emil
Oberhoffer (1903-1922)
Henri Verbrugghen (1923-1931)
Eugene Ormandy (1931-1936)
Dimitri Mitropoulos (1937-1949)
Antal Dorati (1949-1960)
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1960-1979)
Sir Neville Marriner (1979-1986)
Edo de Waart (1986-1995)
Eiji Oue (1995-2002)
Osmo Vänskä (2002-present)
Royal Philharmonic
Principal Flutists:
Gerald Jackson 1946-1957
Daniel Wood
Geoffrey
Gilbert 1957-1963
Christopher
Taylor 1964-1966
James Galway 1967-1969
Laurie Kennedy 1969-1970
Susan Milan 1974-1981
Jonathan
Snowden 1981-1984
Robert Winn
Jamie Martin
Andrew Nicholson 2003-present
He
started playing flute at the age of 8 and decided from then on that he
wanted to be a musician. He has been playing with the RPO since 2003.
Conductors
Sir
Thomas Beecham (1946-1961) – He was heir to the Beecham family
pharmaceutical fortune. He studied composition in London and in Paris. In
1946 he founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Rudolf
Kempe (1961-1975) – He began conducting at the Leipzig Opera. He
was a frequent guest at Covent Garden and later was appointed music director
of the RPO.
Antal Dorati (1975-1978)
Walter Weller (1980-1985) – He was born in Vienna and became a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 17. He became concertmaster and debuted as a conductor at the age of 22.
André Previn (1985-1988) – He was born in Berlin. His family moved to California where he studied piano, composition and conducting. He worked in the Hollywood studios as a conductor during his teenage years.
Vladimir Ashkenazy (1987-1994) – He was born in Russia. He is a great pianist and has conducted many of the great orchestras in the world.
Sir Charles Groves – associate conductor (1967-1992)
Lord Yehudi Menuhin (1981-1999) – He was born in New York and made his violin debut at the age of seven with the San Francisco Orchestra. He has toured almost every country in the world.
Vernon Handley (1993)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – associate conductor and composer since 1992 – He is one of Britian’s most popular leading composers. He has not only conducted his own music but that of the mainstream classical rep.
Daniele Gatti (1996-present) – He made his Carnegie Hall degut in 1989 with the American Symphony Orchestra, and has since conducted numerous orchestras throughout the world. He has trained the orchestra to its highest and the RPO’s string section is said to be among the finest heard in London.
San Francisco Symphony –
Emilio Puyans -1920,
Anthony Linden 1920-1934(to Los Angeles),
Henry Woempner 1935 - 1945, studio flutist
Paul Renzi 1944-48 (to NBC) see below
Murray Graitzer 1948-1957,
Paul Renzi 1957- Paul Renzi has appeared er works. Born in New York City, he
began studying piano at eight, went on to study flute with John Wummer of the
New York Philharmonic, and attended Queens College. At eighteen, Mr. Renzi
was named Principal Flute of the San Francisco Symphony by Pierre Monteux,
subsequently becoming principal flutist with the NBC Symphony under Arturo
Toscanini. He returned to his present position with the San Francisco Symphony
in 1957. Mr. Renzi is Professor Emeritus of San Francisco State University
and has appeared many times as soloist with the Orchestra, in concertos of
Honegger, Vivaldi, and Mozart, and in many others.
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Flute
Section
Paul Renzi (1), Robin McKee (1/2), Linda Lukas, Cathy Payne (picc)
Conductors:
Henry Hadley
Alfred Hertz
Pierre Monteux
Enrique Jordá
Josef Krips
Seiji Ozawa
Edo de Waart
Herbert Blomstedt
Michael Tilson Thomas
Past and Current Principle Flutists of the St. Louis Symphony
Leopold Broeckaert (1895 listed as soloist)
Charles Molé (1896?)
Wm. Baumgaertel (1897-1902)
Leopold Broeckaert (1902-1904)
John Kiburz (1904-1906)
Leopold Broeckaert (1906-1910)
John Kiburz (1912-1931)
Laurent Torno (1932-1946)
Albert Tipton (1946 - 1956 (to Detroit))
Israel Borouchoff (1958-1965)
Jacob Berg (1969-1999)
Mark Sparks (2000- present)
taken from http://hometown.aol.com/johnwion/orchestra.html
Past and Current Conductors of the St. Louis Symphony
Joseph Otten (1880 - 1894)
Alfred Ernst (1894 - 1907)
Max Zach (1907 - 1921)
Rudolph Ganz (1921 - 1927)
Vladimir Golschmann (1931 - 1958)
Edouard van Remoortel (1958 - 1962)
Eleazar de Carvalho (1963 - 1968)
Walter Susskind (1968 - 1975)
Jerzy Semkow (1975 - 1979)
Leonard Slatkin (1979 - 1996 (Conductor Laureate) )
Hans Vonk (1996 - 2002)
Richard Hayman (Pops Conductor Emeritus)
Itzhak Perlman (Music Advisor)
David Amado <amado.htm> (Associate Conductor)
Vienna Philharmonic ("since
1842 - the year our orchestra has been founded - a member must first obtain
a free position in the orchestra of the Wiener
Staatsoper. After three years he/she will become a member of the Wiener
Philharmoniker."- from the orchestra's archivist - their records do not
indicate if the member was also a principal, so these could be section players
as well.)
Alois Khayll 1842-1858,
Franz Doppler 1858-1878, Born at the 16th of October 1821 in Lemberg,
Poland, 1828-1831 lessons from his father, who played
the oboe, At the age of 18 first
flutist at the opera in Pest, 
1856
tournee with his brother to
Brussels and London, 1858 first flutist and stand-in
conductor at
the Vienna opera
ballet of the court, later
on chief conductor, Never chose the Boehm-flute, 1864-67
professor for
flute at the Vienna
conservatory, Death at the 27th of July, 1883 in Baden near
Vienna
Roman Kukula 1878-1903,
Ary van Leeuwen 1903-1920,
Jacques van Lier 1907-1934 (death),
John Amans 1915-1918 (to Dresden),
Josef Niedermayr 1921-1962,
Hans Reznicek 1934-1976,
Herbert Reznicek 1970-1992,
Louis Rivière 1947-1987,
Meinhard Niedermayr 1962-,
Wolfgang Schulz 1973 -,
Dieter Flury 1980- This guy thinks that Vienna is special because they’re
all old white men, playing music by dead white men. He’s also a
frequent soloist with the symphony.
Vienna Philharmonic Flute
Section
Wolfgang Schulz (1), Meinhardt Niedermayr (1), Dieter Flury (a1/picc), Rudulf
Neckvasil (2/picc), Gunter Federsel ( 2/picc), Gunter Voglmayr (picc)
Conductors:
F. O. Dessoff (1860-1875),
H. Richter (1875-1882, 1883-1898),
G. Mahler (1898-1901),
J. Hellmesberger jun. (1901-1903),
F. Weingartner (1908-1927),
Wilhelm
Furtwängler (1927-1930, "main conductor" 1938-1945 and 1947-1954)
Clemens Krauss (1930-1933)
Since then there has been no main conductor, only many guest conductors including
Leonard Bernstein, Karl Bohm., and Herbert von Karajan.