7,500 musicians forms the largest orchestra ever and sets record

7,500 member orchestra broke record on July 9 and became the largest orchestra to perform, in Germany. (Source: RUPTLY TV/ YouTube)

Imagine the bliss that comes down on us when a classical music orchestra performs a Beethoven or a Brahms. Now imagine, classical musicians — all 7,500 of them — performing and break records while at that?

Exactly that happened on Saturday when, 7,500 classical musicians came together at the Commerzbank football stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, performed and set the record of the largest orchestra performance, according to the German Institute for Records. The orchestra, which was led by Hamburg conductor Wolf Kerschek, was made up of 7,548 musicians performing pieces by the likes of Beethoven and Czech composer Antonin Dvorak.

Watch them perform here.

Complete with instruments like brass, woodwinds and string sections, the orchestra broke an Australian record from 2013 when 7,224 musicians had performed together at the Queensland Music Festival.