A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Hutschenruijter, Wilhelm

HUTSCHENRUIJTER, Wilhelm, born Dec. 25, 1796, at Rotterdam, at first studied the violin and horn, but subsequently devoted himself to composition and to the direction of various choral and other musical societies, the Eruditio Musica, the Musis Sacrum, and the Euterpe. He was also music-director at Schiedam, and was for many years a member of the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome. He wrote more than 150 compositions of various kinds, of which the most important were: an opera, 'The King of Bohemia,' produced at Rotterdam, four symphonies, two concert overtures, an overture for wind instruments, several masses, cantatas, songs, etc. A fine sonata for piano and violoncello, op. 4, may also be mentioned. He died at Rotterdam Nov. 18, 1878. (Riemann's Lexicon.)

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