The Rite of Spring
Videos
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original
Concept design from Diaghilev's 1913 production
Stravinsky, sketched by Picasso, 1920
Sergei Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1929, as painted by Léon Bakst
First page from the handwritten score of Le Sacre du printemps
Pierre Monteux
Videos
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