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New York Philharmonic, symphony orchestra based in New York, New York, the oldest major symphony orchestra in the United States in continual existence and one of the oldest in the world. Founded in 1842 as the Philharmonic Society of New York under the conductorship of American-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the orchestra merged with Walter Damrosch’s Symphony Society of New York in 1928. In addition to performing the standard central European repertoire, the Philharmonic has championed contemporary and avant-garde music throughout its history, performing world premieres of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2, in 1881; Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World), in 1893; Sergey Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, in 1909; George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, in 1925; and Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, in 1946.