Analogous to the Singverein, the Orchesterverein was founded as a further branch society in 1859 and likewise remains in existence today. The statutes set out that “as a branch society, the Orchesterverein is obliged to further the cultivation and advancement of musical art, in particular the performance of orchestral music by amateurs.”
In 1990, a third branch society of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna came into existence with the founding of the Verein der Freunde des Archivs (Society of Friends of the Archive). According to its founding statutes, the objectives of this branch society are “research in the fields of music history, the sociology of music, musical performance in practice, music theory, the history of composition and the documentation of musical life.”