Fees Paid to Conductors and Soloists, 1960s

SOURCE: Corresp. Valmalète: D 17337 (4); Contracts, D 17337 (6).

Conductors

  Fee (new francs) Date Notes
Dorati, Antal 2,000 ff.
2,000 ff.
2,000 ff.
2,000 ff.
8 January 1961
22 October 1961
11 March 1962
24 February 1963

+ 1,000 ff. for broadcast, and one extra rehearsal


For 1963-64 required 2,500 francs; not contracted
Kertesz, István 1,000 ff. 11 February 1962  
Kubelík, Rafael 4,000 ff. 22, 29 January 1961 + 25-30% if broadcast.
Did not appear.
Maazel, Loren 5,000 ff. 23 October 1960 + 35% if broadcast
Martinon, Jean 2,500 ff. 12 November 1961

Offered 1,800 ff.; asked 4,000; raised "to keep good relations"
Mehta, Zubin 3,000 ff. 8 March 1964  
Paray, Paul 3,000 ff.
4,000 ff.
4,000 ff.
17 January 1963
10 February 1963
6 October 1963
Reduced fee confidential.
Season opening.

At dissolution, negotiating for four concerts in 1968 at 6,000 ff.
Prêtre, Georges 1,500 ff.
2,500 ff.
2,500 ff.
4,000 ff.
7 January 1962
14 October 1962
3 February 1963
15 March 1964
17, 24 January 1965
Asked 1,800. Cancelled 25 March 1962 and 20 January 1963
Gave fee to Caisse de Prévoyance

Gave 1,000 ff. from each performance to Caisse de Prévoyance
Silvestri, Constantin 2,000 ff. 20 November 1960  
Skrowaczewski, Stranslaw 3,000 ff. 19 January 1962 Asked 3,500

Instrumentalists, Singers
Fee (new francs)
Date
Work(s)
Boegner, Michèle
500 ff.
18 November 1962
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Sebastian)
Carteri, Rosanna soprano
3,000 ff.
3 February 1963
Verdi: Requiem (Prêtre)
Ciccolini, Aldo
3,500 ff.


3,750 ff.
14 October 1962
  + 20% of gross
  over 18,000 ff.
20 December 1964

Rachmaninov: Third Piano Concerto (Prêtre)



Chopin: F-Minor Concerto (Janigro)

Cliburn, Van
7,500 ff.
8 October 1961
Brahms: Second Piano Concerto (Klecki)
Ferras, Christian
2,500 ff.
3,500 ff.
4,000 ff.
4,000 ff.
8 January 1961
10 February 1963
21 February 1964
6 December 1964
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Dorati)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Paray)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Munchinger)
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Bazire)
Gelber, Bruno-Leonardo
1,000 ff.
4 November 1962
Chopin: E-Minor Concerto (Martinon)
Janis, Byron
2,500 ff.
6,000 ff.
3 December 1961
10 October 1965
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Silvestri)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto (Zinman)
Pennario, Leonard
1,000 ff.
21 January 1962
Rachmaninov: Second Piano Concerto (Mari)
Rubio, Consuelo
   mezzo-soprano
1,500 ff.
2,000 ff.
3 February 1963
26 January 1964
Verdi: Requiem (Prêtre)
Ravel: Shéhérazade (Cluytens)
Samson-François
3,000 ff.
4,000 ff.
5,000 ff.

5,000 ff.
2 October 1960
25 February 196
(asked 5,000)
27 October 1963

7 February 1965
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Schuricht)
Ravel: (both) Piano Concertos [asked 5,000]
Grieg: Piano Concerto (Matai)
Chopin E-Minor Concerto (Baudo)
Solchany, George
800 ff.
19 February 1961
Beethoven: Third Piano Concerto (Gielen)
Tacchino, Gabriel
900 ff.
1,000 ff.
11 February 1962
20 January 1963
Liszt: Second Piano Concerto (Kertesz)
Beethoven: Third Piano Concerto (Paray)
Wayenberg, Daniel
1,000 ff.
1,000 ff.
27 November 1960
12 November 1961
Gershwin: Piano Concerto (Blareau)
Prokofiev: Third Piano Concerto (Martinon)

Rubinstein, Stern
Fee Date Work
Rubinstein, Arthur 500,000 [old] ff. 10 October 1954 Brahms: D-Minor Concerto (Cluytens)
  800,000 ff. 23 November 1958 Beethoven: "Emperor" Concerto (Cluytens)
  8,000 (new) ff. 18 February 1962 Beethoven: Fourth Piano Concerto (Kertesz)
  10,000 ff. 1 December 1963 Brahms: First Piano Concerto (Kondrashin)
  12,500 ff. 25 October 1964 Beethoven: "Emperor" Concerto (Cluytens)
Stern, Isaac 400,000 (old) ff.
400,000 ff.
12 October 1958
19 October 1958
Prokofiev: Second Violin Concerto (Cluytens)
Brahms: Double Concerto (L. Rose, Cluytens)
  8,000 (new) ff. 14 November 1965 Brahms: Violin Concerto (Kurtz)

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