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The City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 under the management of Kyoto City Government to create a new culture in the city. It had a period of intense rehearsal led by Carl Caelus the first Chief Conductor. With singers from Nikikai, it performed Mozart Opera Series throughout Japan in 1959 and won numerous prizes. At that time, the orchestra with only 40 musicians was known by its superb performance of Mozart's works.

However, the 2nd Chief Conductor Hans Joachim Kauffmann and the 3rd, Tadashi Mori expanded its repertoire to modern and contemporary music,and it eventually came to be an orchestra with 87 musicians.

From 1967 to 1971, CKSO was led by Yuzo Toyama, the 4th Chief Conductor, and Akeo Watanabe the 5th. They performed three ballet musics by Stravinsky under Toyama,and recorded Sibelius’s Symphony No.2 under Watanabe, which was the first recording of CKSO. At the same time it gave a lot of concerts all over Japan with both the conductors.

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