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Pierre Monteux (April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964) was an orchestra conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
. Born in Paris, France, rue de la Grange Batelière. Monteux later became an American citizen.

eux studied violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
 from an early age, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine. He became a proficient violinist, good enough to share the Conservatoire's violin prize in 1896 with Jacques Thibaud
Jacques Thibaud

Jacques Thibaud was a France violinist.Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen....
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Pierre Monteux (April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964) was an orchestra conductor
Conducting

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
. Born in Paris, France, rue de la Grange Batelière. Monteux later became an American citizen.

Life and career

Monteux studied violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
 from an early age, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine. He became a proficient violinist, good enough to share the Conservatoire's violin prize in 1896 with Jacques Thibaud
Jacques Thibaud

Jacques Thibaud was a France violinist.Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen....
. In his spare time he also played at the Folies Bergères
Folies Bergères

The Folies Berg?re is a Parisian music hall which was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s through the 1920s. the institution is still in business....
. He later took up the viola
Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range , and nearly identical playing position....
 and played in the Geloso Quartet which played one of Brahms's
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
 string quartets in a private performance for the composer and in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique
Opéra-Comique

The th??tre national de l?Op?ra-Comique is an opera company and opera house in Paris. It is located in the place Boieldieu, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, near the Paris Stock Exchange and not far from the Palais Garnier, home of the Op?ra National de Paris....
, leading the viola section in the première of Debussy's
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
 opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
, Pelléas et Mélisande
Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)

Pell?as et M?lisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. It was first performed at the Op?ra-Comique, Paris on 30 April 1902....
 in 1902.

In 1910, Monteux took a conducting post at the Dieppe casino. The next year, 1911, he became conductor of Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
's ballet
Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
 company, the Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company which performed under the directorship of Sergei Diaghilev between 1909 and 1929. Some of their places of residence included the Th??tre Mogador and the Th??tre du Ch?telet, though they worked in many countries, including England, the U.S.A., and Spain....
. In this capacity he conducted the premières of Stravinsky's
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
 Petrushka
Petrushka

Petrouchka or Petrushka is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.Petrushka is a story of a Russian traditional puppet, Petrushka, who is made of straw and with a bag of sawdust as his body, but who comes to life and develops emotions....
 (1911) and The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French language title, Le Sacre du Printemps is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under impresario Serge Diaghilev....
 (1913) – with its famous riot – as well as Debussy's Jeux
Jeux

Jeux is the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "po?me dans?" , it was originally intended to accompany a ballet, and was written for the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev to choreography by Nijinsky....
 (1913) and Ravel's
Maurice Ravel

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
 Daphnis et Chloé
Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
 (1912). This established the course of his career, and for the rest of his life he was noted particularly for his interpretations of Russian and French music.

With the outbreak of World War I, Monteux was called up for military service, but was discharged in 1916, and travelled to the United States. There he took charge of the French repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 in New York City from 1917 to 1919. He also conducted the American première of Rimsky-Korsakov's
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
 opera The Golden Cockerel
The Golden Cockerel

The Golden Cockerel is an opera in three acts by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky and is based on Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel ....
 at the Metropolitan Opera.

He then moved to the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
 (1919-1924). He had a major effect on the Boston ensemble's sound, and was able to fashion the orchestra as he pleased after a strike
Strike action

Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform labour . A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances....
 led to thirty of its members leaving. He also introduced a number of new works in Boston, notably works by French composers. Monteux in 1924 conducted the orchestra in the New York première of The Rite of Spring, a performance which included a "galvanized" 15-year-old Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States....
 in the audience, according to a 2008 report. (Carter was again in attendance, on the occasion of his 100th birthday in Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue , occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street , two blocks south of Central Park....
 in 2008 when the orchestra, now under the baton of James Levine
James Levine

James Lawrence Levine is an United States orchestral conducting and piano. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra....
, again performed the Stravinsky piece.)

In 1924, Monteux also began an association with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
, serving as "first conductor" ("eerste dirigent") alongside Willem Mengelberg
Willem Mengelberg

Joseph Willem Mengelberg was a Netherlands conducting....
. In 1929, he founded the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, which he conducted until 1935. In the year the orchestra was founded, he conducted it in the world première of Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
's Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 3 in C minor in 1928....
.

Monteux then returned to the United States, and worked with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1935 to 1952. He began recording with the orchestra for RCA Victor in 1941 and made numerous discs in San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House for the next 11 years. In 1943, he founded a conducting school, The Pierre Monteux School
Pierre Monteux School

The Pierre Monteux School for conducting and orchestra musicians, founded by the famous conductor Pierre Monteux, is a 6-week summer orchestra program located in Hancock, Maine....
 for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians, in Hancock, Maine
Hancock, Maine

Hancock is a town in Hancock County, Maine, Maine, United States. The population was 2,147 at the 2000 United States Census. Located on the mainland at the head of Frenchman Bay, Hancock has commanding views of Mount Desert Island....
, the childhood home of his second wife, Doris Hodgkins Monteux, where Monteux was now living. There he taught such future conductors as Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel is a conducting, viola and composer....
, Neville Marriner
Neville Marriner

Sir Neville Marriner is an English conducting and violinist.Marriner was born in Lincoln, England and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire....
, André Previn
André Previn

Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
, Werner Torkanowsky
Werner Torkanowsky

Werner Torkanowsky was a successful German Conductor in both the concert hall and opera house.He was born in Berlin, Germany, and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, coming to the United States in 1948 to study the violin....
 and David Zinman
David Zinman

David Zinman is an United States conducting and violinist....
. In 1946, he became a United States citizen. He made a nostalgic return to San Francisco in 1960 to guest conduct the orchestra and to record Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
's Siegfried Idyll
Siegfried Idyll

The Siegfried Idyll, one of Richard Wagner's few non-operatic works, is a symphonic poem lasting approximately twenty minutes for chamber orchestra....
 and Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
's Death and Transfiguration for RCA Victor, the only stereophonic recordings he made with his former orchestra.

In 1951, Monteux renewed his association with the Boston Symphony as a regular guest conductor. He conducted it in Boston, at Tanglewood, and on a transcontinental tour and on two tours to Europe. Monteux also recorded the Boston Symphony for RCA Victor. He continued to conduct the Boston Symphony until his death in 1964.

From 1961 to 1964 he was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
. He was 86 when he was invited to take the post, and he famously accepted on condition that he had a 25-year contract, with a 25-year option of renewal. With the LSO Monteux gave the 50th anniversary performance of The Rite of Spring, at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
, London, in the presence of the composer. In his last studio sessions, for Philips Records
Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics giant Philips. It was started as Philips Phonographische Industries in 1950 in music....
 in 1964, Monteux recorded a disc with the LSO and his son, the flautist
Flautist

A flautist, flutist, or flute player is a musician who plays the flute....
 Claude Monteux
Claude Monteux

Claude Monteux has established a dual international career as both concert flutist and conducting. As a flutist, he played under the batons of Arturo Toscanini, Walter, Thomas Beecham, Leopold Stokowski, Pablo Casals, Igor Stravinsky, and his father Pierre Monteux....
, the only gramophone recording Pierre and Claude made together.

Pierre Monteux died in Hancock in 1964.

Musical style

Monteux observed, 'Our principal work is to keep the orchestra together and carry out the composer's instructions, not to be sartorial models, cause dowagers to swoon, or distract audiences by our "interpretation"'. He advised the young Previn that when orchestras are playing well the conductor should not interfere with them. 'His approach to all music is that of the master-craftsman,' according to an approving critic in 1957. The record producer John Culshaw
John Culshaw

John Royds Culshaw was a pioneering England classical music record producer for Decca Records.Along with Fred Gaisberg and Walter Legge, he was one of the most influential producers of classical recordings....
 described Monteux as 'that rarest of beings — a conductor who was loved by his orchestras' and said that 'to call him a legend would be to understate the case.' Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini was an Italian people conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory....
 observed that Monteux had the best baton technique he had ever seen.

Recordings

Monteux made a large number of recordings throughout his career. He himself claimed to dislike them, maintaining that they lacked the spontaneity of live performances. Nevertheless, many of his recordings have remained in the catalogues for decades, notably RCA recordings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
 and Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
s, and Decca recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world .Its home base is the Musikverein, Vienna....
 and his Philips recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Arts Centre....
. Some recordings currently (2007) or recently available on CD are:

Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
  • Suite No 2 in B minor (London Symphony Orchestra, with Claude Monteux, flute)
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
  • Symphonies 1, 3, 6 and 8 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
  • Symphonies 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 (LSO)
  • Symphony No 3
    Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)

    The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven is a musical work sometimes cited as marking the end of the Classical period and the beginning of musical Romantic music....
     (Concertgebouw Orchestra)
Berlioz
Hector Berlioz

Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
  • Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique

    An Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830....
     (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra)
  • Symphonie Fantastique (VPO)
  • Roméo et Juliette
    Roméo et Juliette

    Rom?o et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French language libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carr?, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare....
     (LSO)
Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
  • Symphony No 2
    Symphony No. 2 (Brahms)

    The Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877 during a visit to the Austrian Alps. Its gestation was brief in comparison with the fifteen years which Brahms took to complete his Symphony No....
     (VPO)
  • Piano Concerto No 1
    Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)

    Johannes Brahms composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, opus number 15 in 1858, giving the first public performance in Hamburg, Germany the following year....
     (Julius Katchen
    Julius Katchen

    Julius Katchen was an Untied States of America concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Brahms's solo piano compositions....
    /LSO)
  • Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
    Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn

    The Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, consisting of a theme in B-flat major, eight variation and a finale, was composed in the summer of 1873 by Johannes Brahms....
     (LSO)
Léo Delibes
Léo Delibes

Cl?ment Philibert L?o Delibes was a French composer of ballets, French opera, and other works for the stage....
  • Coppélia, Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1953)
  • Sylvia, Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1953)
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
  • La Mer (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1954)
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is a musical composition for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was first performed in Paris on December 22, 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret....
     (LSO)
  • Images (LSO)
  • Three Nocturnes (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1955)
Dvorák
Antonín Dvorák

Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
  • Symphony No 7
    Symphony No. 7 (Dvorák)

    Symphony No. 7 in D minor , opus number 70, by Anton?n Dvor?k was first performed in London on April 22, 1885 shortly after the piece was completed on March 17, 1885....
     (LSO)
Elgar
Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order was an England composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
  • Enigma Variations
    Enigma Variations

    Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. 36 , commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variation written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1898–1899....
     (LSO)
Franck
César Franck

C?sar Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century....
  • Symphony in D minor
    Symphony in D minor (Franck)

    The Symphony in D minor is the most famous orchestral work and the only symphony written by the 19th-century Belgium composer C?sar Franck. After two years of work, the symphony was completed 22 August 1888....
     (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Christoph Gluck
  • Orfeo ed Euridice (Risë Stevens
    Risë Stevens

    Ris? Stevens is a retired American mezzo-soprano who captured a wide popular audience at the height of her career .She studied at New York's Juilliard School of Music for three years....
    , Lisa Della Casa
    Lisa Della Casa

    Lisa Della Casa is a Switzerland soprano who was famous for her interpretation of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss as well as for her great beauty....
     and Roberta Peters
    Roberta Peters

    Roberta Peters is an American coloratura soprano who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera, one of the most durable opera stars of America....
     et al./ Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
    Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

    The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat Costanzi Theatre, it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements....
    )
Haydn
  • Symphonies 94 (Surprise)
    Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)

    The Symphony No. 94 in G major is the second of the twelve so-called London symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is usually called by its nickname, the Surprise Symphony, although in German it is more often referred to as the Symphony "mit dem Paukenschlag" ....
     and 101 (Clock)
    Symphony No. 101 (Haydn)

    The Symphony No. 101 in D major is the ninth of the twelve so-called London Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as the The Clock because of the "ticking" rhythm throughout the second movement....
     (VPO)
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Union-Armenians composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music....
  • Violin Concerto, Soloist: Leonid Kogan (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1958)
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
  • Les Preludes (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1952)
Massenet
Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
  • Manon
    Manon

    Manon is an op?ra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on L?histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abb? Pr?vost....
     (Paris Conservatoire)(Victoria de los Ángeles
    Victoria de los Ángeles

    Victoria de los ?ngeles was a Spanish operatic soprano and recitalist from Catalonia whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the mid 1960s....
    )
Mozart
  • Flute Concerto in D major, K314 (Claude Monteux/LSO)
  • Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K414 (Boston Symphony Orchestra) Soloist: Lili Kraus
    Lili Kraus

    Lili Kraus was a Hungarian people pianist.Pianist Lili Kraus was born in Budapest in 1903. At the age of 17, she entered the conservatory in Budapest where she studied with Artur Schnabel, Zolt?n Kod?ly, and B?la Bart?k....
     (1953)
  • Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K456 (Boston Symphony Orchestra) Soloist: Lili Kraus
    Lili Kraus

    Lili Kraus was a Hungarian people pianist.Pianist Lili Kraus was born in Budapest in 1903. At the age of 17, she entered the conservatory in Budapest where she studied with Artur Schnabel, Zolt?n Kod?ly, and B?la Bart?k....
     (1953)
Ravel
  • Bolero (LSO)
  • Daphnis et Chloé
    Daphnis et Chloé

    Daphnis et Chlo? is a ballet with music by Maurice Ravel. Ravel described it as a "symphonie chor?ographique" . The scenario was adapted by Michel Fokine from an Daphnis and Chloe by the Greece writer Longus thought to date from around the 3rd century AD....
     (LSO)
  • Ma Mère l'Oye
    Ma Mère l'Oye

    Ma M?re l'Oie , also spelled Ma M?re l'Oye, is a musical work by French composer and pianist Maurice Ravel....
     (LSO)
  • Pavane pour une infante défunte
    Pavane pour une infante défunte

    Pavane pour une infante d?funte is a now well-known piece written for solo piano by the France composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Faur?....
     (LSO)
  • Rapsodie espagnole
    Rapsodie espagnole

    Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel. Composed between 1907 and 1908, the Rapsodie represents one of Ravel's first major works for orchestra....
     (LSO)
  • La Valse
    La Valse

    La Valse, un po?me chor?ographique , is an orchestral work written by Maurice Ravel from February 1919 until 1920, and premiered in Paris on 12 December 1920....
     (LSO)
Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Schéhérazade
    Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Scheherazade , opus number 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov, in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in Orient, which figured greatly in the hist...
     (LSO)
Saint-Saëns
  • Havanise, Soloist: Leonid Kogan (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1958)
Sibelius
Jean Sibelius

Johan Julius Christian Sibelius was a Finland composer of the later Romantic music whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity....
  • Symphony No 2
    Symphony No. 2 (Sibelius)

    Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 in D major, opus number 43 was started in winter 1900 in Rapallo, Italy, and finished in 1902 in Finland. It was first performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra on 8 March 1902 with the composer conducting....
     (LSO)
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
  • Death and Transfiguration (San Francisco)
Stravinsky
  • Petrushka (Paris Conservatoire Orchestra)
  • Petrushka (Boston Symphony Orchestra)) (1958)
  • The Rite of Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1951)
  • The Rite of Spring (Paris Conservatoire)
Tchaikovsky
  • Symphony No. 4 (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1959)
  • Symphony No. 5 (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1958)
  • Symphony No. 6 (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (1955)
  • Swan Lake
    Swan Lake

    Swan Lake is a ballet, Opus number 20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed 1875-1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser was fashioned from Russian folk tales as well as an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse....
    , excerpts (LSO)
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
  • La traviata
    La traviata

    La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848....
     (Rosanna Carteri
    Rosanna Carteri

    Rosanna Carteri was an Italian soprano primarily active in the 1950s through the mid-1960s.Rosanna Carteri was born in Verona and studied with Cusinati and started singing in concert at the age of twelve....
     /Cesare Valletti
    Cesare Valletti

    Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. He was much admired for his polished vocal technique, his musical refinement and elegance, and beauty of tone....
     et al./ Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma)
Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
  • Siegfried Idyll
    Siegfried Idyll

    The Siegfried Idyll, one of Richard Wagner's few non-operatic works, is a symphonic poem lasting approximately twenty minutes for chamber orchestra....
     (San Francisco)


Notable premières

  • Stravinsky, Petrushka, Ballets Russes, Paris, 13 June 1911
  • Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé, Ballets Russes, Paris, June 8, 1912
  • Debussy, Jeux, Ballets Russes, Paris, May 15, 1913
  • Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Ballets Russes, Paris, May 29, 1913
  • Stravinsky, The Nightingale
    The Nightingale

    "The Nightingale" is a fairy tale by Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled music box to the song of a nightingale....
    , Paris, May 26, 1914
  • Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
    , Concert champêtre
    Concert champêtre

    Concert champ?tre is a harpsichord concerto by Francis Poulenc, which also exists in a version for piano solo with very slight changes in the solo part....
     (Wanda Landowska
    Wanda Landowska

    Wanda Landowska , was a Poland harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century....
    , soloist), Paris, 3 May 1929
  • Foote, "A Night Piece for Flute and Strings" Boston Symphony, April 1923


See also

  • The Pierre Monteux School
    Pierre Monteux School

    The Pierre Monteux School for conducting and orchestra musicians, founded by the famous conductor Pierre Monteux, is a 6-week summer orchestra program located in Hancock, Maine....


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