Pierre Monteux- Vintage Signed Photograph (Conductor/Violinist) for Sale

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Pierre Monteux- Vintage Signed Photograph (Conductor/Violinist) For Sale

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Pierre Monteux- Vintage Signed Photograph (Conductor/Violinist):
$120.00

8X9.5 Vintage B&W photograph signed in white ink, \"To Jim Wiggins, Very Sincerely Pierre Monteux\". Creasing throughout the photograph, otherwise in good condition. Pierre wrote over the signature due to ink going out.
(1875-1964) Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French (later American) 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 between 1911 and 1914, he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky\'s The Rite of Spring and other prominent works including Petrushka, The Nightingale, Ravel\'s Daphnis et Chloe, and Debussy\'s Jeux. Thereafter he directed orchestras around the world for more than half a century. From 1917 to 1919 Monteux was the principal conductor of the French repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris (1929-38), and San Francisco Symphony. In 1961, aged eighty-six, he accepted the chief conductorship of the London Symphony Orchestra, a post which he held until his death three years later. Although he was known for his performances of the French repertoire, his chief love was the music of German composers, above all Brahms. He disliked recording, finding it incompatible with spontaneity, but he nevertheless made a substantial number of records. Monteux was well-known as a teacher. In 1932 he began a conducting class in Paris, which he developed into a summer school that was later moved to his summer home in Les Baux in the south of France. After moving permanently to the US in 1942 and taking American citizenship, he founded a school for conductors and orchestral musicians in Hancock, Maine. Among his students in France and America who went on to international fame were Lorin Maazel, Igor Markevitch, Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Andra Previn and David Zinman. The school in Hancock has continued since Monteux\'s death.
This lot came from the Jim Wiggins collection we purchased in July 2022. Jim Wiggins accumulated the most unique and valuable autograph collection over a period of 70-plus years. He obtained his collection either in person or by writing to persons of fame and notoriety.
Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.