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Tivoli Copenhagen Phil
Copenhagen Phil can trace its history back to 1843, when Georg Carstensen opened Tivoli in Copenhagen.
To provide the music in Tivoli, Georg Carstensen engaged the popular composer and conductor H.C. Lumbye and his orchestra: "Det Lumbyeske Selskab". The society consisted of 22 musicians and mainly played "concerts à la Strauss". Ever since, the orchestra has played in Tivoli every summer.
In 1846 the orchestra was expanded to 33 musicians and began to give symphony concerts as Tivolis Orkester.
In 1848 the famous composer and conductor Niels W. Gade returned home from Leipzig, where he had, among other things, been conductor of the famous Gewandhaus orchestra. Gade gave momentum to concert life in Copenhagen, and the musicians of the Tivoli orchestra became a permanent core of the winter's concert orchestras.
The traditional Palæ concerts ceased in 1931, after which the orchestra's winter activities were reduced to a number of scattered concerts, still under the name Københavns Philharmoniske Orkester. The orchestra's musicians are only employed full-time during the Tivoli season.
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