Music of Monaco

Monaco is a sovereign city-state, country, and microstate on the French Riviera, along the Mediterranean coast.

The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1863 and gained a permanent home at Salle Garnier in 1879.

The Orchestra is quite prominent in the classical world, and has been conducted by Igor Markevitch, Lovro von Matačić, Paul Paray, Lawrence Foster, Gianluigi Gelmetti and Louis Frémaux.

This practice carries on a tradition from the reign of Prince Antoine I, during whose rule a children's choir sang the liturgies in the Palatine Chapel.

The country's only win in the contest came in 1971, with Séverine and the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue".