The Vienna Philharmonic has become the first orchestra to win the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Prize, one of the highest honors in the classical-music field. Organizers of the Nilsson Prize, which ...

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which acknowledged decades after the fact that many of its players had been Nazi party members, will use a $1 million grant to digitalise and find a new home for its ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The world-famous Vienna Philharmonic orchestra will publish details of its history during the Nazi era on Sunday, responding to years of accusations of a cover-up. Austria took ...

The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler's rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi ...

New details about the Vienna Philharmonic’s past Nazi ties have come to light, with research showing that the venerated orchestra contained its fair share of party members during World War II. The new ...

Vienna. The Austrian capital is practically synonymous with classical music. Now the city’s world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra — the same orchestra that worked with great composers, ...

The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a Nazi ...

Was there ever a musical organization more steeped in history - with all the ethical and political quandaries that come along with that - than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra? There has never been ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The famed Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has revoked awards it made during Hitler's rule to six leading Nazis, as it quietly responds to criticism of the way it has dealt with its ...

President of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Clemens Hellsberg sits next to the president of the Birgit Nilsson Foundation Rutbert Reisch, left, as he speaks during an interview with The Associated ...