HoogStraten, Willem van
HoogStraten, Willem van
HoogStraten, Willem van, Dutch conductor; b. Utrecht, March 18, 1884; d. Tutzing, Sept. 11, 1965. He studied violin with Alexander Schmuller; then with Bram Eldering at the Cologne Cons, and with Sevcik in Prague. He played concerts with Elly Ney, whom he married in 1911 (divorced in 1927). From 1914 to 1918 he conducted the Krefeld orch., and in 1922 he was engaged as conductor of the summer concerts of the N.Y. Phil, (until 1938); was its assoc. conductor (1923–25). He was conductor of the Portland (Ore.) Sym. Orch. from 1925 to 1938. After conducting the Salzburg Mozarteum Orch. (1939–45), he was a guest conductor in Europe.
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