Paul C Guijt: Wirtz, Wirtz, Kindler, Van Hove & Van Dieren
ISBN: 979-8326799494 (self-published (via amazon.nl), Book)
Number of pages: vi + 288 pages
© 2024 Paul C Guijt
Received: 17 December 2024
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This book includes the comprehensive biographies of:
- Bartholomeus Joannes van Hove, award-winning Hague draftsman and painter, first teacher of drawing and painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague;
- Friedrich Wirtz, the first teacher of voice, violin and piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague;
- Carel Wirtz, sculptor in the Netherlands and the United States of America;
- Anton Wirtz, draftsman, painter, art teacher and director of the drawing school in the south of the Netherlands;
- Bart Wirtz, cellist with various orchestras in the Netherlands and teacher in Nijmegen, but then mainly in the United States of America at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and later also conductor there;
- Carl Kindler, oboist, first in the Prussian army, then with the Staff Music of the Rotterdamse Schutterij and later conductor and oboe teacher at the Rotterdam Music School;
- Frieda Kindler, concert pianist and piano teacher, especially in Great Britain;
- Bernard van Dieren, composer and music critic, especially in Great Britain;
- Willem Wirtz, draftsman and painter in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States of America;
- Hans Kindler, cellist, conductor and founder of the National Symphony Orchestra of the United States of America;
and
- Carel Wirtz, interior designer and teacher of interior design at the Academy for Visual Arts in Rotterdam.
It also includes brief biographies of students and some historical background. Comprehensive lists of compositions are included for all the composers. Bibliographies and an index complete the book, which holds vi + 288 pages, 207 illustrations, and 887 footnotes. It is written in parallel in Dutch and English.