Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, he began to receive regular conducting engagements in 1907.
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Monteux during his conductorship of Les Ballets Russes, c. 1912
The building which housed the Paris Conservatoire in Monteux's student days (21st century photograph)
Monteux as viola player in quartets (2nd from right), with Johannes Wolff, Joseph Hollmann and André Dulaurons, and with Gustave Lyon (Administrateur Délégué of Pleyel) at the rear and Edvard Grieg in front, Salle Pleyel, April 1903.
Saint-Saëns at the keyboard, with Monteux (right) on the rostrum, 1913
Stravinsky (l) with Nijinsky as Petrushka, 1911
Dancers in Nikolai Roerich's costumes for The Rite of Spring: "knock-kneed and long-haired Lolitas jumping up and down"
Singing under Monteux at the Met: clockwise from top l. Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer, Giovanni Martinelli and Enrico Caruso
Germaine, Denise and Pierre Monteux, circa 1919Awards 4
In their orbit 4
Connected to Pierre 6
Rafael KubelíkAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Malcolm SargentAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
John BarbirolliAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Michael TippettAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Peter Maxwell DaviesAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Arthur BlissAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold MedalAbout this person
Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, he began to receive regular conducting engagements in 1907. He came to prominence when, for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company between 1911 and 1914, he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and other prominent works including Petrushka, The Nightingale, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, and Debussy's Jeux. Thereafter he directed orchestras around the world for more than half a century.
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