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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 Vieuxtemps1843
Ole Bull 1843
Leopold de Meyer1845
Joseph Burke1846
Felix Mendelssohn1846
Louis Spohr1846
Henri Herz1846
Camillo Sivori1846
Giovanni Bottessini 1850
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt1850
Jules Benedict1850
Henrietta Sontag1852
Marietta Alboni1852
Carl Eckert1852
Paul Julien1853
William Vincent Wallace1853
Friedrich Schneider1853
Richard Hoffman1854
Louis Moreau Gottschalk1855
Cesare Badiali1856
Anna de la Grange1857
Sigismund Thalberg1857
Gustave Satter1857
Henry C. Timm1863
Edward Hodges1865
Theodore Eisfeld1865
William Scharfenberg1866
Sebastian Bach Mills1867
R. Ogden Doremus, M.D.1869
Edwin Booth, Tragedian1869
Mrs. Scott Siddans1869
Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa 1870
Anna Mehlig1870
Franz Liszt1872
Richard Wagner1872
Joachim Raff1872
George Templeton Strong, Esq.1872
Anton Rubinstein1873
Dr. Leopold Damrosch1877
E.H. Schermerhorn, Esq.1879
Rafael Joseffy1883
Theodore Thomas1892
E. Francis Hyde, Esq.1892
Elkan Naumberg, Esq.1892
Dr. Antonin Dvorák1894
Mrs. Francis G. Shaw1899
Frederick Bergner1900
Andrew Carnegie, Esq.1905
John D. Rockefeller, Esq.1905
President Calvin Coolidge1924
President Harry S. Truman1945
Countess Mercati1949
Igor Stravinsky1957
Paul Hindemith1960
Helen Huntington Hull1968
Aaron Copland1970
Rudolf Serkin1972
Leonard Bernstein1984
Zubin Mehta1991
Pierre Boulez1992
Isaac Stern1992
Erich Leinsdorf1992
Carlos Moseley2001
Stanley Drucker2009
Lorin Maazel2009
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