Music Directors
- Weston Gales (1914–1917)
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1918–1936)
- Franco Ghione (1936-1940)
- Victor Kolar (1940–1942)
- Karl Krueger (1944–1949)
- Orchestra disbanded from 1949 to 1951
- Paul Paray (1951–1962)
- Sixten Ehrling (1963–1973)
- Aldo Ceccato (1973–1977)
- Antal Doráti (1977–1981)
- Günther Herbig (1984–1990)
- Neeme Järvi (1990–2005)
- Leonard Slatkin (2008–present)
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