Chief Conductors
- 1900-1925 Ferdinand Löwe
- 1920s-1930s Wilhelm Furtwängler (as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
- 1933-1940s Oswald Kabasta
- 1945-1947 Hans Swarowsky
- 1948-1960 Herbert von Karajan (as director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde)
- 1960-1970 Wolfgang Sawallisch
- 1970-1973 Josef Krips (artistic advisor)
- 1973-1976 Carlo Maria Giulini
- 1980-1982 Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- 1986-1991 Georges Prêtre (principal guest conductor)
- 1991-1996 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- 1997-2005 Vladimir Fedoseyev
- 2005-present Fabio Luisi
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