Paul and Viola van Katwijk papers

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Paul and Viola van Katwijk papers

1844-1983

http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00024/smu-00024.html

This collection contains the papers of musicians Paul and Viola van Katwijk, prominent contributors to the cultural life of Dallas in the early and mid-twentieth century as well as many letters by well-known composers and musicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr. Paul van Katwijk served as a faculty member in SMU’s Division of Music from 1918 to 1955 and as director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1925 to 1937. His wife, Viola Beck van Katwijk was a music instructor and composer. It also includes considerable material on the Beck and Van Katwijk families in Berlin, Germany and Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658340

Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries

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Katwijk, Viola Beck van, 1894-1980

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Viola Beck van Katwijk was born on February 26, 1894 in Denison, Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas Online, the Beck family moved to Dallas in 1911, and Viola Beck was soon teaching piano lessons there. She studied piano in Berlin with Richard Burmeister, a student of Franz Liszt, and she studied piano and composition with Percy Grainger. A 1914 article in the Dallas Morning News indicates that she also studied with Harold von Mickwitz. Beck made her solo debut with the St. Louis Symphony...

Katwijk, Paul van, 1885-1974

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Pianist, teacher, and conductor of the Dallas symphony orchestra....