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Kim Saeng-ryeo (25 November 1912 – 18 December 1995) was a South Korean violinist and conductor. He was the husband of dancer Kwon Rye-sung. He founded the current Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

Life
He was born in Yongbyon, North Pyongan Province during the Japanese colonial period and grew up in Anju, South Pyongan Province, and Bukcheong, South Hamgyong Province. Just as people in the early days of Korean Western music, such as Hyun Je-myeong, Lee Heung-ryeol, and Gye Jeong-sik, Kim Saeng-ryeol was born into a Protestant family and was able to access Western music early.

While attending Kyungsungje High School, he learned the violin from Boots, the wife of a foreign doctor at Severance Hospital. After that, he met Gye Jeong-sik, who returned from studying abroad in Germany, and studied the violin in earnest, and continued to play the violin while attending Yeonhui College. After graduating from the Department of Performing Arts, he accompanied the orchestra of Gyeongseong Broadcasting Station and took a position as a movement director.

At the end of the Japanese colonial period, the Gyeongseong Welfare Indoor Band, a pro-Japanese performance group, was created to distribute "national music." Kim Saeng-ryo led the creation of the Welfare Chamber Orchestra and cooperated with the policy of the Japanese Government-General of Korea through a national tour. He participated when the Music Preservation Concert was held under the auspices of the Joseon Music Association, which allowed the Governor-General to gather and organize pro-Japanese musicians, and in 1944, he advanced to Manchuria and led members of the Welfare Chamber Orchestra to join the New Symphony Orchestra. For this reason, in 2008, it was selected in the music category of the list of prospective members of the pro-Japanese life dictionary organized by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs to be included in the pro-Japanese life dictionary.

It also occupies an important part in the history of the Korean orchestra. Immediately after liberation, in 1945, the Goryeo Symphony Orchestra was established as a conductor with the current name, and after withdrawing from the Goryeo Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra was also established and represented.

The Seoul Symphony Orchestra collapsed through the Korean War and became the root of the current Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra based on the Navy Jeonghoon Music Band.

After Korea's liberation, he served as a naval officer during the Korean War to reserve a naval major, and continued his activities by being invited by the U.S. to study command after his relationship with the U.S. military government.

In 1957, he returned to Korea and was the permanent conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1960, he became a member of the Korean Academy of Arts, but in 1961, he resigned from the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra due to conflicts with members, and later went to the U.S. to settle in Las Vegas, where he died.

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 * the Gyeongseong Welfare Indoor Band

Reference

 * Lee In-hae, Special Planned/A Korean Symphony Orchestra History of Development [dead link "Culture and Arts" ] 《Culture and Arts" (December 1989 issue)
 * Lee In-hae, Special Planned/A Korean Symphony Orchestra History of Development [dead link "Culture and Arts" ] 《Culture and Arts" (December 1989 issue)