Hutschenruyter (Hutschenruijter), noted

family of Dutch musicians:

(1) Wouter Hutschenruyter , conductor and composer; b. Rotterdam, Dec. 28, 1796; d. there, Nov. 18, 1878. He studied violin, horn, and theory. He was founder-director of the band of the Rotterdam civic guard (1821) and of the music society Eruditio Musica (1826). He was a teacher at the music school of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst. Among his compositions are the opera Le Roi de Bohème (Rotterdam, 1833), several syms., overtures, a Concertino for 8 Timpani and Orch., much band music, masses, cantatas, chamber music, and songs.

(2) Willem Jacob Hutschenruyter , horn player and conductor, son of the preceding; b. Rotterdam, March 22, 1828; d. there, Jan. 19, 1889. He played the horn in the orchs. of the Rotterdam Opera and his father’s Eruditio Musica. He was conductor of the municipal band (1865–85).

(3) Wouter Hutschenruyter , noted Dutch conductor, musicologist, and composer, son of the preceding; b. Rotterdam, Aug. 15, 1859; d. The Hague, Nov. 14, 1943. He studied in Rotterdam, where he began his career as a choral conductor and teacher. He then was 2^nd conductor of the Concertgebouw Orch. in Amsterdam (1890–92), and subsequently conductor of the Utrecht municipal orch. (1892–1917), which he developed into a respected Dutch ensemble. He later was director of the music school of Rotterdam’s Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst (1917–25). He composed a Piano Concerto, a Nocturne for Horn and Orch., various other orch. pieces, chamber music, piano pieces, and songs.

Writings

Richard Strauss (Haarlem, 1898); Orkest en orkestspel na 1600 (Utrecht, 1903); Felix Weingartner (Haarlem, 1906); Het muziekleven in de 17e eeuw (Baarn, 1909); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Rotterdam, 1909; abridged ed., 1927, as Mozart-, 2^nd ed., 1943); De geschiedenis der toonkunst (Amsterdam, 1920); De programma muziek (Bussum, 1922); De geschiedenis van het orkest en van zijn Instrumenten (Amsterdam, 1926); Mahler (The Hague, 1927); De symphonieën van Beethoven en toegelicht (The Hague, 1928; 2^nd ed., 1943); Wagner (The Hague, 1928); Brahms (The Hague, 1929); with J. Kruseman, Richard Strauss (The Hague, 1929); Een en ander uit de geschiedenis der militaire muziek (Hilversum, 1930); Grepen uit geschiedenis van de piano en vat het pianospel (Hilversum, 1930); De sonates van Beethoven geanalyseerd en toegelicht (The Hague, 1930); De dirigent (Hilversum, 1931; 3^rd ed., 1955); De ontwikkeling der symphonie door Haydn, Mozart en Beethoven (Hilversum, 1935); with J. Kruseman, Musiciana (The Hague, 1938); Frédéric Chopin (The Hague, 1939; 3^rd ed., 1949); Bijdrage tot de bibliographie der muziekliteratur (Leiden, 1941-43); Grepen uit de geschiedenis van de snaarinstru-menten en van het snarenspel (Hilversum, 1942); Franz Schubert (The Hague, 1944).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dan Keener