Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra People's artist of USSR, professor Arnold Katz, is very important. The repertoire of the orchestra includes the following compositions: W. A. Mozart Symphony №41 "Jupiter" and "Requiem", L. Beethoven Symphony №1, F. Schubert Symphony №8 "Unfinished". D. Shostakovich Symphony №9, E. Grieg Concerto for piano with the orchestra, M. Mussorgsky Symphony picture "The Night On The Bald Mountain", P. Tchaikovsky concerts for piano and violin with the orchestra and Overture-fantasy "Romeo and Juliet", overtures by G. Rossini, compositions by A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, G. Bizet, C. Saint-Saëns, R. Wagner, M. Glinka, A. Dvořák and other composers. Concerts of the orchestra
Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven) at a concert in the Redoutensaal, Vienna, at which the Seventh Symphony (which had been premiered two months earlier) was also played. Beethoven was growing increasingly deaf at the time, but nevertheless led the premiere. Reportedly, "the orchestra largely ignored his ungainly gestures and followed the principal violinist instead." When asked by his pupil Carl Czerny why the Eighth was less popular than the Seventh, Beethoven is said to have replied, "because the Eighth is so much better." A critic wrote that "the applause it received was not accompanied by that enthusiasm which distinguishes a work which gives universal delight;