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Price: $125.00 |
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2 BORDERS TRIMMED TO FORMERLY FIT IN A FRAME, OTHERWISE MINT |
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Scarce autographed and inscribed photograph of the Dutch violinist and conductor, August 18, 1937. Von Hoogstraaten began his musical career as a fiddler, training with Schmuller, Elderling and Sevcik. He met his wife Elly Ney at the Cologne Conservatory and he played in the first incarnation of her famed trio. From 1923-1939 he was Conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Lewisohn Stadium Summer concerts, serving as Music Director of the Orchestra for half of the 1925 season. Arthur Judson recommended in 1925 that he take over the Directorship of the Oregon Symphony, which he accepted and built the reputation of the orchestra through the use of broadcast concerts. He rekindled his relationship with Ney after the death of her second husband and moved back to Europe, where he was appointed Chief Conductor at the Mozarteum and oversaw the musical direction of the Salzburg Festival. He and Ney recorded the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos and several Mozart Concertos during this period. Due to this appointment and his ex-wife’s political views, some assumptions have been made as to his political leanings, however, to our knowledge, nothing has been proven. He died in 1964 and later was buried with Elly Ney. |
WILLEM VAN HOOGSTRAATEN - CONDUCTOR |
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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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