biography
pronunciation:
[mõtoe]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1964)
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| biography:
| Conductor, born in Paris, France. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where he began his career as a viola player. He conducted Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris (1911–14, 1917), and in 1914 organized the ‘Concerts Monteux’, whose programmes gave prominence to new French and Russian music. Founding and directing the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, in 1936 he took over the newly organized San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and in 1941 established a summer school for student conductors at Hanover, NH. From 1960 until his death he was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and became one of the 20th-c's leading conductors, his interpretations equally admired in ballet, opera, and symphonic music. |
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