Honorary Members of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society

The New York Philharmonic (officially named the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York) confers Honorary Membership in the Society on those who have made outstanding contributions to the world of symphonic music or an unprecedented impact on the life of the Orchestra. It is bestowed only on rare occasions and only with the unanimous approval of the Board of Directors.

Henri Vieuxtemps 1843
Ole Bull 1843
Leopold de Meyer 1845
Joseph Burke 1846
Felix Mendelssohn 1846
Louis Spohr 1846
Henri Herz 1846
Camillo Sivori 1846
Giovanni Bottessini 1850
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 1850
Jules Benedict 1850
Henrietta Sontag 1852
Marietta Alboni 1852
Carl Eckert 1852
Paul Julien 1853
William Vincent Wallace 1853
Friedrich Schneider 1853
Richard Hoffman 1854
Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1855
Cesare Badiali 1856
Anna de la Grange 1857
Sigismund Thalberg 1857
Gustave Satter 1857
Henry C. Timm 1863
Edward Hodges 1865
Theodore Eisfeld 1865
William Scharfenberg 1866
Sebastian Bach Mills 1867
R. Ogden Doremus, M.D. 1869
Edwin Booth, Tragedian 1869
Mrs. Scott Siddans 1869
Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa 1870
Anna Mehlig 1870
Franz Liszt 1872
Richard Wagner 1872
Joachim Raff 1872
George Templeton Strong, Esq. 1872
Anton Rubinstein 1873
Dr. Leopold Damrosch 1877
E.H. Schermerhorn, Esq. 1879
Rafael Joseffy 1883
Theodore Thomas 1892
E. Francis Hyde, Esq. 1892
Elkan Naumberg, Esq. 1892
Dr. Antonin Dvorák 1894
Mrs. Francis G. Shaw 1899
Frederick Bergner 1900
Andrew Carnegie, Esq. 1905
John D. Rockefeller, Esq. 1905
President Calvin Coolidge 1924
President Harry S. Truman 1945
Countess Mercati 1949
Igor Stravinsky 1957
Paul Hindemith 1960
Helen Huntington Hull 1968
Aaron Copland 1970
Rudolf Serkin 1972
Leonard Bernstein 1984
Zubin Mehta 1991
Pierre Boulez 1992
Isaac Stern 1992
Erich Leinsdorf 1992
Carlos Moseley 2001