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Whether philharmonic concert or opera, cross-over project or chamber music, charity concert or promotion of young musicians - thanks to our diverse artistic commitment, we Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra with our General Music Director Marko Letonja form the main pillar of north-west German musical life. With our two-hundred-year history, we are one of the world's most traditional orchestras. Illustrious names such as Hans von Bülow and Marcello Viotti, Karl Böhm and Eugen Jochum as well as Paul Hindemith and Johannes Brahms, who conducted the world premiere of his "Ein deutsches Requiem" in Bremen, form the list of legendary general music directors and guest conductors.