Biography
Philharmonia Hungarica
Effective period / Period of releases: 1958 - 1996
Members: Reinhard Peters, Zoltán Rácz (2), Erwin Ramor, Zoltan Thirring, László Baranyay, Robert Freund, Zsolt Deaky, James Smelser, Jiri Gerlich, Bela Larant, Bettina Geiger, Klaus Hasslwanter, Sandor Tar, Joachim Mittelacher, Florian Hasel, Christopher Leuba, Marek Stefula, Istvan Engl, Nora Szederkenyi, Konstantin Schönberg, Charles Tibbetts
Former symphony orchestra, based in Marl, Germany; founded in 1956, disbanded in 2001. It was established and initially directed by Zoltán Rozsnyai who had been conductor of the Hungarian National Philharmonic before the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.