Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (born 1875)

Pierre Monteux

French and American conductor (1875–1964)

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…