– August Fries named conductor. 1862 – Musicians from Harmonien assist the 18-year-old Edvard Grieg with his first concert in his home city of Bergen after his studies in Leipzig. Amadeus Wolfgang Maczewsky becomes orchestra leader. 1863 – Edvard Grieg performs a Beethoven sonata with Maczewsky on a Society concert. 1865 – August Fries leads Grieg's Symphony in C Minor. 1866 – Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah performed with Nina Hagerup as a soloist. 1870 – Orchestra has 41 permanent members 1871 – Johan Svendsen's Symphony in D Major is played for the first time in Bergen. 1873 – Richard Henneberg hired as conductor. 1875 – German Adolf Blomberg becomes Kapellmeister. 1879 – Hermann Levi hired as conductor after Grieg declines offer. 1880 – Edvard Grieg becomes artistic director. 1881 – Orchestra performs Grieg's A minor Piano Concerto with Alice Lindberg as soloist. 1882 – Composer Iver Holter becomes conductor. 1883 – Orchestra premieres Grieg's Landkjenning 1885 – Johan Halvorsen hired as concertmaster 1886 – Per Winge named conductor. 1889 – No concerts. 1893 – Johan Halvorsen becomes conductor. During his six seasons as conductor, he introduces music of Glinka, Delibes, Dvořák, Humperdinck and Sibelius to Bergensers. 1907 – Death of Edvard Grieg. 1908 – Harald Heide becomes principal conductor. "Edvard Grieg's Fund" established. 1915 – Orchestra celebrates 150th season. First concert in Koncert-Palæet. 1919 – Orchestra reorganized and employs 40 full-time musicians. 1920–21 – Jean Sibelius conducts his own works: Symphony #2, The Swan of Tuonela and Finlandia 1923–24 – Carl Nielsen conducts his own works, including The Four Temperaments. Orchestra premieres Harald Sæverud Symphony Nr. 2. 1924–25 – Pierre Monteux guest conducts. 1925–26 – Orchestra celebrates its 160th season. 1927–28 – First radio broadcasts of orchestra's concerts. 1930–31 – Marian Anderson solos with orchestra three years before her London debut. Kurt Atterberg conducts his own Symphony Nr. 6. 1931–32 – Orchestra premieres Harald Sæverud Symphony No. 3. 1934–35 – Karol Szymanowski featured as soloist in his own Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra. 1938 – First "Young Soloists Concert." 1939–40 – Orchestra holds first "Worker's Concert" 1941 – At the orchestra's 175-year jubilee concert, a Nazi mob protests against Ernst Glaser, a Jew who was scheduled to perform as soloist on Ole Bull's violin. He is whisked away by rescuers and the concert is cancelled after the first number. 1942–43 – Orchestra gives five memorial concerts for Edvard Grieg's 100-year