Pierre Monteux
French conductor (1875-1964) · France · On the map · Musicians · Died at 89
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.
Pierre Monteux is read about 57 times a day, in 25 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 112 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?People around Pierre
Pierre MonteuxPartners
Brothers and sisters
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong. A marriage is drawn as ended only where its end is recorded, so a spouse drawn here may be a former one.
Correct this familyMedia & music
Photos 8
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.
Dancers in Nikolai Roerich's costumes for The Rite of Spring: "knock-kneed and long-haired Lolitas jumping up and down"
Germaine, Denise and Pierre Monteux, circa 1919
Willem Mengelberg, Monteux's colleague at the Concertgebouw
Salle Pleyel, base of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris
Monteux with the director Peter Brook at the Metropolitan Opera in 1953Awards
About this person
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.
Where to find them
The same award as Pierre
György LigetiBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Christina NilssonBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Adrian BoultBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Arthur BlissBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Felix WeingartnerBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Antonio PappanoBoth received Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal