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'''Pierre Benjamin Monteux''' (4 April 1875{{spaced ndash}}1 July 1964) was a French (later American) [[conducting|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 [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' and other prominent works including ''[[Petrushka (ballet)|Petrushka]]'', [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]'s ''[[Daphnis et Chloé]]'', and [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]]'s ''[[Jeux]]''. Thereafter he directed orchestras around the world for more than half a century.
From 1917 to 1919 Monteux was the principal conductor of the French repertoire at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York. He led the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] (1919–24), [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra]] (1924–34), [[Orchestre Symphonique de Paris]] (1929–38) and [[San Francisco Symphony]] (1936–52). In 1961, aged eighty-six, he accepted the chief conductorship of the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], a post which he held until his death three years later. Although known for his performances of the French repertoire, his chief love was the music of German composers, above all [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]. He disliked recording, finding it incompatible with spontaneity, but he nevertheless made a substantial number of records.
Monteux was well known as a teacher. In 1932 he began a conducting class in Paris, which he developed into a summer school that was later moved to his summer home in [[Les Baux-de-Provence|Les Baux]] in the south of France. After moving permanently to the US in 1942, and taking American citizenship, he founded [[Pierre Monteux School|a school]] for conductors and orchestral musicians in [[Hancock, Maine]]. Among his students in France and America who went on to international fame were [[Igor Markevitch]], [[Neville Marriner]], [[André Previn]], [[Lorin Maazel]] and [[Seiji Ozawa]]. The school in Hancock has continued since Monteux's death.
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'''Pierre Benjamin Monteux''' (4 April 1875{{spaced ndash}}1 July 1964) was a French (later American) [[conducting|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 [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' and other prominent works including ''[[Petrushka (ballet)|Petrushka]]'', [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]'s ''[[Daphnis et Chloé]]'', and [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]]'s ''[[Jeux]]''. Thereafter he directed orchestras around the world for more than half a century.
From 1917 to 1919 Monteux was the principal conductor of the French repertoire at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York. He led the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] (1919–24), [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra]] (1924–34), [[Orchestre Symphonique de Paris]] (1929–38) and [[San Francisco Symphony]] (1936–52). In 1961, aged eighty-six, he accepted the chief conductorship of the [[London Symphony Orchestra]], a post which he held until his death three years later. Although known for his performances of the French repertoire, his chief love was the music of German composers, above all [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]. He disliked recording, finding it incompatible with spontaneity, but he nevertheless made a substantial number of records.
Monteux was well known as a teacher. In 1932 he began a conducting class in Paris, which he developed into a summer school that was later moved to his summer home in [[Les Baux-de-Provence|Les Baux]] in the south of France. After moving permanently to the US in 1942, and taking American citizenship, he founded [[Pierre Monteux School|a school]] for conductors and orchestral musicians in [[Hancock, Maine]]. Among his students in France and America who went on to international fame were [[Igor Markevitch]], [[Neville Marriner]], [[André Previn]], [[Lorin Maazel]] and [[Seiji Ozawa]]. The school in Hancock has continued since Monteux's death.
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