Editing New York Philharmonic (section)

===Competition, 1878===
[[File:New york philarmonic club.jpg|thumb|The New York Philharmonic Club, a chamber ensemble of Philharmonic musicians, clowning for their public-relations photograph in the 1880s. ''New York Philharmonic Archives'']]
[[Leopold Damrosch]], [[Franz Liszt]]'s former concertmaster at [[Weimar]], served as conductor of the Philharmonic for the 1876/77 season. But failing to win support from the Philharmonic's public, he left to create the rival [[Symphony Society of New York]] in 1878.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hill |first=Brad |date=2005 |title=Classical, American Popular Music |chapter=Leopold Damrosch |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rKsR6NeulcC&pg=PA64 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |pages=63–64 |isbn=978-0-8160-6976-7}}</ref> Upon his death in 1885, his 23-year-old son [[Walter Johannes Damrosch|Walter]] took over and continued the competition with the old Philharmonic. It was Walter who would convince [[Andrew Carnegie]] that New York needed a first-class concert hall<ref name="Binkowski">{{cite book |last=Binkowski |first=Carol J. |date=2016 |title=Opening Carnegie Hall: The Creation and First Performances of America's Premier Concert Stage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbDuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 |publisher=McFarland |page=20 |isbn=978-0-7864-9872-7}}</ref> and on May 5, 1891, both Walter and Russian composer [[Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] conducted at the inaugural concert of the city's new [[Carnegie Hall|Music Hall]], which in a few years would be renamed for its primary benefactor, Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie Hall would remain the orchestra's home until 1962.<ref>{{cite news |last=Page |first=Tim |date=October 8, 2003 |title=Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall Break Off Their Engagement |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/10/08/philharmonic-carnegie-hall-break-off-their-engagement/4c468cb1-a13d-4230-aa51-45c62c639b4c/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |location=Washington |access-date=November 11, 2019 |archive-date=November 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111231340/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/10/08/philharmonic-carnegie-hall-break-off-their-engagement/4c468cb1-a13d-4230-aa51-45c62c639b4c/ |url-status=live }}</ref>