[3] Li Delun conducted the first concert in Beijing in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart after the founding of CPOC.
At that time, the CNSO not only played much western classical music such as Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, but it also introduced many works such as Yellow River Cantata by Chinese composers.
[2] According to ChinaCulture website, the CNSO's first director, Delun Li, born in 1917, was a famous musician and conductor in China.
He introduced many Chinese composers’ works abroad, for example, The Yellow River Cantata and Song of Mountain Forest.
[3] Guan's main compositions include: Fantasies Symphoniques: Farewell My Concubine (2005), the Chinese opera Sorrowful Morning, and Mulan Psalm.
[2] The first principal conductor and artistic director Zuohuang Chen came back from USA and built the CNSO based on the original CPOC.
[6] The famous conductor Muhai Tang took over the artistic director but left the position one year later without formal resignation due to the conflicts with the executive Songlin Yu.