Mostar Symphony Orchestra

The roots of today's Mostar Symphony Orchestra go back to 1888, when the Hrvoje Croatian Singing Society was founded in Mostar, as part of which the orchestra operated until the beginning of World War II. At the beginning of the 50s of the 20th century. the initiative in the musical life of Mostar was taken by the Music School, which produced the first instrumentalists. This created the prerequisites for the establishment of a school orchestra. In 1953, the management of the National Theater, in cooperation with the Music School, gathered the musicians, and at the end of the same year, the first rehearsals were held. In April 1954, the first leadership of the City Orchestra was appointed, which would grow into the Mostar Symphony Orchestra four years later.