The Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (RSO) was affiliated to the Southwest Broadcasting Company Südwestrundfunk (SWR). It was founded in 1945 as Kleines Symphonie-Orchester Stuttgart and appeared under different names over the years, as Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (with slight variations, see chronology below) between 1975 and 2016. Chief conductors were Sergiu Celibidache, Sir Neville Marriner, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Georges Prêtre, Sir Roger Norrington and artist 4408888.
In 2016/17 the orchestra was merged with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Und Freiburg to form the SWR Symphonieorchester.
Name changes:
1945: Kleines Symphonie-Orchester von Radio Stuttgart
1946: Großes Orchester von Radio Stuttgart
1949: Sinfonieorchester von Radio Stuttgart
1949: Sinfonie-Orchester Des Süddeutschen Rundfunks
1959: Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester
1975: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
1998: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
2001: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
2016: SWR Symphonieorchester