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Pierre Monteux vinyl records

3 albums with 79 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Pierre Benjamin Monteux. Pierre Monteux (April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964) was an orchestra conductor. Father of and grandfather of . Brother-in-law of bandleader/businessman & composer/pianist & uncle of soprano singer . Born in Paris, France, he began conducting at the very early age of twelve. One of his most prominent roles in his early career was that of principal conductor with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with whom he conducted the premieres of Ravel's Daphnis Et Chloé, Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring, Rossignol and Petroushka. In later years Monteux moved to the United States, where he became permanent conductor of the and then the .