Àç»ý / ALL NM --- NMORIGINAL INNER SLEEVEThe Last Music Willem van Otterloo
Stravinsky
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring)
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Rite Of Spring was the last music Willem van Otterloo conducted, in the Sydney Opera House, before a car crash took his life, on July 27, 1978, in Melbourne.
Recorded under studio conditions in the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House.
Jan Willem van Otterloo (27 December 1907 – 27 July 1978)
was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.
Van Otterloo was born in Winterswijk, Gelderland, in the Netherlands, the son of William Frederik van Otterloo, a railway inspector, and his wife Anna Catharina van Otterloo (née Enderlé). He qualified to study medicine at Utrecht University but switched to studying cello and composition at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. While playing as a cellist in the Utrecht Stedelijk Orkest, he won a composition prize from the Concertgebouw Orchestra for his Suite No. 3, which he presented in his 1932 conducting debut, also with that orchestra. He held posts with the Utrecht Stedelijk Orkest, before being appointed chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague (1949–1973).
He spent his last 11 years in Australia. From 1967 to 1970 he was chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and in 1971 he was appointed chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where he remained for the rest of his life.
