Editing Vienna Philharmonic (section)

===Post-World War II era to present===
In 1946, when these conductors were undergoing [[denazification]] – successfully in the case of Furtwängler,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.furtwangler.net/inmemoriam/data/nyt_en.htm |title=Denazification &#124; Furtwängler – Tahra |work=Furtwangler.net |access-date=29 April 2013}}</ref> unsuccessfully in the case of Mengelberg – the orchestra was led primarily by conductors untainted by Nazi association, including [[Josef Krips]], [[Erich Leinsdorf]], [[Volkmar Andreae]], [[Paul Paray]], and [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Charles Munch]].<ref>Erich Leinsdorf, ''Cadenza: A Musical Career,'' Houghton Mifflin: 1976, p. 139</ref> An exception was [[Herbert von Karajan]], who made his debut with the orchestra with two concerts in January, but was unable to conduct a third scheduled concert when occupying authorities required him to undergo denazification (his tribunal in Vienna was in February, 1947).<ref>Raymond Holden, ''The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan,'' Yale University Press, 2005, p. 243–44</ref> After clearance, he resumed conducting in late 1947 and developed a significant association with the orchestra (more below).

In 1947, Bruno Walter reunited with the orchestra as conductor when it appeared at the first [[Edinburgh Festival]]. They performed a single work, Mahler's song cycle ''[[Das Lied von der Erde]]''.<ref>Ryding and Pechefsky, ''Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere'' pp. 311–313</ref>

In the postwar era, dozens of the world's best-known conductors have led the orchestra. Among them were not only Walter, Furtwängler, Knappertsbusch, Krauss, Szell, Klemperer, and Krips, but also [[John Barbirolli]], [[Carlo Maria Giulini]], [[Erich Kleiber]], [[James Levine]], [[Zubin Mehta]], [[Fritz Reiner]], [[Georg Solti]], [[Claudio Abbado]], [[Riccardo Muti]], [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]], [[Lorin Maazel]], [[Mariss Jansons]], [[Daniel Barenboim]], [[Gustavo Dudamel]], [[Roberto Carnevale]], [[Valery Gergiev]] and [[Franz Welser-Möst]]. The orchestra made their first US tour in 1956 under the batons of [[Carl Schuricht]] and [[André Cluytens]]. Three conductors were given honorific titles by the orchestra in the later 20th century: Karajan and [[Karl Böhm]], who were made Honorary Conductors, and [[Leonard Bernstein]], who was made an Honorary Member of the orchestra. [[Pierre Boulez]], who had conducted the orchestra often, was made an Honorary Member in 2007.<ref>http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?cccpage=news_detail&set_language=en&set_z_news=516 {{dead link|date=January 2017}}</ref> Another significant relationship was with the famously reclusive conductor [[Carlos Kleiber]], who appeared with the orchestra first in 1974 and last in 1994, his longest association with any ensemble, even if it included only 30 appearances;<ref>Carolyn Watson, [http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/8797/1/CN-Watson-2012-PhD.pdf ''Carlos Kleiber: Gesture as Communication''], doctoral thesis, University of Sydney, 2012, p. 148</ref> Clemens Hellsberg wrote of the "contrast between those dry numbers and the defining experience which each encounter with this brilliant interpreter represented."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en&cccpage=news_detail&set_z_news=51 |title=Vienna Philharmonic &#124; News |publisher=Wienerphilharmoniker.at |access-date=29 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209215133/http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en&cccpage=news_detail&set_z_news=51 |archivedate=9 February 2011  }}</ref>
Finally, [[István Kertész (conductor)|István Kertész]]' gramophone recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic during the 1960s and the 1970s represent a highlight in the orchestra's history.

On 7 May 2000, the orchestra performed Beethoven's [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] at the site of the concentration camp at [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen]], Austria, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its liberation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en&cccpage=news_detail&set_z_news=99 |title=Vienna Philharmonic &#124; the Orchestra, Concerts, Audio CDS, New Year's Concert |access-date=15 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524162031/http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en |archivedate=24 May 2013  }}</ref> [[Simon Rattle]] conducted,<ref>Martin Kettle, [https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,214770,00.html "Ode to Joy in Mauthausen"], ''The Guardian'', 28 April 2000</ref> and soloists were [[Ruth Ziesak]], [[Angelika Kirchschlager]], [[Vinson Cole]], and [[Thomas Quasthoff]]; all artists and the orchestra performed without fee<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en&cccpage=news_detail&set_z_news=93 |title=Vienna Philharmonic &#124; the Orchestra, Concerts, Audio CDS, New Year's Concert |access-date=15 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524162031/http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/index.php?set_language=en |archivedate=24 May 2013  }}</ref> and without applause at the end.<ref name=JRO2000>[[James R. Oestreich]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/09/arts/arts-abroad-dissonance-shadow-death-beethoven-kaddish-echo-through-nazi-camp.html "Arts Abroad: Dissonance In the Shadow Of Death; Beethoven and Kaddish Echo Through a Nazi Camp Site"], May 2000, ''The New York Times'', 9 May 2000</ref> The symphony was preceded by recitation of the [[Kaddish]], the prayer of mourning, by Paul Chaim Eisenberg, the [[Chief Rabbi]] of Austria, and the funeral prayer [[El male rachamim]] sung by [[Shmuel Barzilai]], the chief cantor of the [[Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien]] (Viennese Israelite Community), accompanied by members of the orchestra and the [[Wiener Singverein]]; the orchestral arrangement was by Erich Schagerl, a violinist in the orchestra.<ref name=JRO2000 />

In 2005 the orchestra was named Goodwill Ambassador of the [[World Health Organization]]. In 2013, Clemens Hellsberg received the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the [[Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien]] (Viennese Israelite Community).<ref>http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/upload/files/torberg_hell_dank_en_hs_v01.pdfv {{dead link|date=January 2017}}</ref>

Each [[New Year's Day]] since 1 January 1941, the VPO has sponsored the [[Vienna New Year's Concert]]s, dedicated to the music of the Strauss family composers, and particularly that of [[Johann Strauss II]]; the first such concert was given on 31 December 1939 by [[Clemens Krauss]] (see below, "[[#Period under National Socialism]]"), and led subsequent concerts on New Year's Day from 1941 until 1945. The postwar series of concerts was inaugurated in 1946 by [[Josef Krips]]. They were led by Krauss, then by concertmaster [[Willi Boskovsky]] from 1955 to 1979, and since 1987 have been led by a variety of leading conductors invited by the orchestra.<ref>{{cite web |title=NEUJAHRSKONZERT Tradition und Geschichte |url=https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/de/neujahrskonzert/tradition-und-geschichte |website=Wiener Philharmoniker |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>