Family
Claude Monteux has three children with Adeline Johanna Schulz Hiatt Peake. His eldest son was born in 1952 in Yonkers, NY. Named Robert Monteux, he is a former professional ballet dancer. Claude's daughter, Sylvia Monteux, was born in 1954 in Bar Harbor, Maine. She currently resides in Ellsworth, Maine. His youngest son, Gerard, was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1955. He is now a well-known television sports host and nature photographer known as Bill Patrick and is a board member of the Pierre Monteux School.
Claude and Adeline divorced when the children were young. Adeline, who starred in Distant Drums with Gary Cooper, later married William Peake, who died in September 2011.
Claude has a granddaughter, Jessica Lynn Fitzsimmons, born in 1982, who resides in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. His grandson Kirk Monteux, born in 1965, is a composer and the founder of mysoftmusic.com.
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