Founded in Lugano in 1935 as the Orchestra della Radio della Svizzera italiana, it played a 
crucial role in the region’s musical development, helping to establish important festivals in 
Lugano, Locarno and Ascona from the 1940s. Over the years it was directed by great 
musical figures such as Ansermet, Stravinsky, Stokowski, Celibidache and Scherchen, and 
collaborated with composers such as Mascagni, Richard Strauss, Honegger, Milhaud, Martin 
and Hindemith, and more recently with Berio, Henze and Penderecki.

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