It was founded as the Municipality Symphony Orchestra by Gholamhossein Minbashian, before entering its modern form under Parviz Mahmoud in 1946.

In the years that followed, conductors such as Rubik (Ruben) Gregorian, Morteza Hannaneh, Haymo Taeuber, Heshmat Sanjari, and Farhad Meshkat took over as the conductors of the orchestra.

[3] As a result, the orchestra faced its darkest age, playing only a few concerts in the decade following the revolution.

The pressure caused the conductor Heshmat Sanjari a serious sickness, he died in 1995.

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