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A group of Amsterdam citizens set out in 1881 to give the city a proper concert hall, and they chose a design by Adolf Leonard (Dolf) van Gendt. The building went up on a field then just outside the city limits, near the new Rijksmuseum, and after delays over roads and lighting it opened on 11 April 1888. For the Main Hall van Gendt took his model from the Neue Gewandhaus in Leipzig, working before acoustics was a science, and the result is one of the most admired acoustics in the world, with a long, rich reverberation. Later restorations have kept the original design as far as possible so as not to disturb it. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has been the resident orchestra since its first concert there in November 1888.

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  1. The fickle sea: Debussy, Sibelius, Britten, Clyne, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in The Fickle Sea: Alan Gilbert conducts Debussy, Britten, Sibelius and Clyne. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  2. The Fickle Sea: Britten and Debussy with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw Cited in The Fickle Sea: Alan Gilbert conducts Debussy, Britten, Sibelius and Clyne. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  3. From Bach to Handel, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in From Bach to Handel: Jan Willem de Vriend and Alena Baeva. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  4. From Bach to Handel with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw Cited in From Bach to Handel: Jan Willem de Vriend and Alena Baeva. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  5. Lang Lang performs Saint-Saëns, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Lang Lang plays Saint-Saëns, Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel and a Lindberg premiere. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  6. Lang Lang, Klaus Mäkelä and the Concertgebouw Orchestra: Saint-Saëns, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Lang Lang plays Saint-Saëns, Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel and a Lindberg premiere. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  7. Riccardo Chailly conducts Rachmaninoff, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Riccardo Chailly conducts early Rachmaninoff, with Alexander Malofeev. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  8. Riccardo Chailly conducts Rachmaninoff with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Riccardo Chailly conducts early Rachmaninoff, with Alexander Malofeev. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  9. Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich 5, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  10. Concertgebouw Orchestra and Karina Canellakis: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth, with Alina Ibragimova in Mozart. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  11. Yunchan Lim plays Liszt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Yunchan Lim plays Liszt, Iván Fischer conducts Schubert’s ‘Great’. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  12. Time’s Echo Live: voices from the past, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Time’s Echo Live: Schoenberg, Weinberg and Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  13. Classics by Rachmaninoff, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Classics by Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody and Symphonic Dances. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  14. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Klaus Mäkelä conducts Beethoven’s Seventh, Lisa Batiashvili plays Sibelius. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  15. Jörg Widmann conducts Mendelssohn, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Jörg Widmann conducts Mendelssohn and his own Second Violin Concerto. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  16. Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Klaus Mäkelä conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  17. St Matthew Passion, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Leonardo García Alarcón conducts Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  18. Janine Jansen and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Janine Jansen plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  19. Janine Jansen and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Janine Jansen plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  20. Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven, Vladimir Jurowski conducts Bruckner’s Third. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  21. Mitsuko Uchida and Concertgebouw Orchestra play Beethoven, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven, Vladimir Jurowski conducts Bruckner’s Third. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  22. Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Wikipedia Accessed 30 September 2026.
  23. History: The beginning of The Concertgebouw, Het Concertgebouw Accessed 30 September 2026.
  24. Famous acoustics: The secret of the Main Hall, Het Concertgebouw Accessed 30 September 2026.
  25. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Accessed 30 September 2026.
  26. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Berlioz and Schumann, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Tamestit’s Harold in Italy and Schumann’s Rhenish. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  27. Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Yunchan Lim, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Yunchan Lim’s Schumann, and Czech Tone Poems. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  28. Jaap van Zweden leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Wagner, Respighi and Korngold, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Kavakos Plays Korngold; Wagner and Respighi. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  29. Antonio Pappano conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Beethoven and Elgar, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Szeps-Znaider’s Beethoven and Elgar’s First. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  30. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Mäkelä’s Bruckner Eighth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  31. Rafael Payare conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Zimmermann’s Frank Martin and Shostakovich’s Tenth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  32. Riccardo Chailly conducts Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky & Symphony No. 4, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Chailly’s Prokofiev: Fourth Symphony and Alexander Nevsky. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  33. Iván Fischer leads Dvořák, Smetana and Bernstein and Guy Braunstein performs The Beatles, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Iván Fischer’s Two Worlds: Bernstein, the Beatles and Bohemia. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  34. Klaus Mäkelä conducts the St Matthew Passion with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Mäkelä Conducts Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  35. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 by the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Aurel Dawidiuk, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Dawidiuk Conducts Debussy, Poulenc and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  36. Concertgebouw Orchestra and Elim Chan: Elgar and Beethoven, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Bronfman’s ‘Emperor’, and Elgar’s Enigma. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  37. Raphaël Pichon leads Rameau and Gluck with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Pichon’s French Baroque: From Chaos to Rameau and Gluck. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  38. Augustin Hadelich plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Hadelich’s Tchaikovsky and Brahms’s Fourth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  39. Concertgebouw Orchestra and cellist Sol Gabetta play Martinů, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Gabetta’s Martinů, and Ravel’s Daphnis. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  40. Fabio Luisi conducts Beethoven with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Ehnes Plays Barber, and Beethoven’s Eighth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  41. Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Víkingur Ólafsson plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, 26 August 2026, Bachtrack Cited in Ólafsson’s ‘Emperor’ and Prokofiev’s Triumph. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  42. Concertgebouw Orchestra & Klaus Mäkelä: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Schumann’s ‘Spring’ and the Symphonie fantastique. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  43. Concertgebouw Orchestra & Seong-Jin Cho: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Cho’s Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky’s War Symphony. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  44. Emanuel Ax plays John Williams, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Ax Plays Williams, and Dvořák’s Sixth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  45. Beethoven’s Fifth, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Emilie Mayer’s Faust and Beethoven’s Fifth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  46. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Mäkelä’s Mahler Seventh. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  47. Klaus Mäkelä and Dvořák’s Seventh, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Dvořák’s Seventh and Bartók’s Bluebeard. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  48. Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Iván Fischer: Stravinsky and Weill’s Silbersee. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  49. Brahms’s Second Symphony with Fabio Luisi, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Henze’s Chaconne and Brahms’s Second. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  50. Fabio Luisi and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Henze’s Chaconne and Brahms’s Second. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  51. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Saint-Saëns, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Cited in Sheku’s Saint-Saëns and ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  52. Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä: Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Het Concertgebouw Cited in Gabetta’s Rococo Variations and Mozart’s 39th. Accessed 30 September 2026.