Residentie Orchestra
The orchestra started to form in 1903 when a group of musicians who called themselves the “Residentie Orkest” gave a concert in the Gebouw voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Building for Arts and Sciences) in the centre of the Hague.  By the end of the following year they had formed to give regular concerts.  Their concert on 20 November 1904 is taken to be the official beginning of the orchestra.