It was during the following decade that he was the chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

BBC: Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch dies at 89

During his career, Sawallisch also conducted at the Bayreuth Festival, La Scala in Milan and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and Tokyo's NHK Orchestra.

BBC: Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch dies at 89

This time they packed off for Vienna, where two hastily assembled orchestras, the Vienna Film Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony (the opera label for the Vienna Philharmonic, which also appears by name in the file) stood at the ready, pending resolution of legal issues.

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They could not have foreseen it, or have realised it even afterwards, those elegant guests who assembled at Prince Lobkowitz's Vienna palace on a bitter December night in 1804 for the premiere of a new symphony by the wild and woolly Ludwig van Beethoven.

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