Effective period / Period of releases: 1938 - 1998

Members: Ara Malikian, Garcia Navarro, Arturo Guerrero, Eduardo Muñoz, Zvetlana Arapu, Santiago Kuschevaztky, Mitchell Sven Andersson, Zograb Tatevossian, Jan Koziol, Rafael Khismatulin, Margarita Sikoeva, Josep Gal, Hector Escudero, Manuel Ascanio, Varghaollah Badiee, Paolo Catalano, Marianna Toth, Alex Rosales, Victor Ardelean, Fernando Puig, Sergio Vacas, Shoko Muraoka, Erik Ellegiers, John Paul Friedhoff, Michele Prin, Jan Poda, Aki Hamamoto, Ricardo Kwiatkowski, Dragos Balan, Ivor Bolton, Hanna Mª Ambros, Grégory Lacour, Enrique Jordá, Walter Stormont, Vicente Spiteri, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Gilles Lebrun, Alejandro Galán, Dionisio Villalba, Jesús López-Cobos, Ruben Simeo, David Tena, Esperanza Velasco, Luis Cosme Gonzalez, Angeles Egea, Andrés Micó, Alexander Tatnell, Marina González, Laurentiu Grigorescu, Farhad Sohrabí, Ricardo García, Holger Ernst, Cayetano Castaño, Emilian Szczygiel, Carmen Guillem, Eduardo Pausá, Natalia Margulis, Salvador Aragó, Aniela Frey, Susana Cermeño, Conrado Del Campo, José María Franco, Santa Monica Mihalache, María Antonia Rodríguez, Lorenzo Antonio Iosco, Juan Pavia

Spanish orchestra based in Madrid, founded in 1903, this is the oldest private Spanish symphonic orchestra not related with a theatre (Barcelona's Orquesta del Liceo was founded in 1843). It was founded by members from the Sociedad de Conciertos, the first Spanish Orchestra, founded by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri in 1866. Acronym OSM.
In 1905 they started a collaboration with Enrique Fernández Arbós as conductor. Other conductors have been: Conrado Del Campo, José María Franco, Enrique Jordá, Vicente Spiteri, Garcia Navarro and Jesús López-Cobos.
Since 1965 to 1997 played in Teatro de la Zarzuela and recorded to Hispavox label many zarzuelas in late 1960 to mid 1970s.
Since 1997 is related as Orquesta Titular Del Teatro Real (holder orchestra) of Teatro Real.
Do not confuse with Orquesta Filarmónica De Madrid.

List of General Music directors
Alonso Cordelás (1903–1904)
Enrique Fernández Arbós (1905–1936/39)
José María Franco (-)
Enrique Jordá (1940–1945)
Conrado Del Campo (1946–1950)
José María Franco (1951–1958)
Vicente Spiteri (1958–1977)
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Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro (1999–2001)
Jesús López-Cobos (2002-2010)
Ivor Bolton (2015-)