Pierre Monteux
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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 190
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
Otto Klemperer
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Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but h
Klemperer c. 1920
Kroll Opera House, 1930
Arnold Schoenberg gave Klemperer composition lessons.
The Hungarian State Opera, where Klemperer was musical director, 1947–1950