THE WIRELESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Overture, 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Johan Wagenaar
DR. JOHAN WAGENAAR was born in Utrecht in 1862. In 1888 he was appointed organist of Utrecht Cathedral, and in 1904 of the Music School in that City. He is a distinguished choral conductor, and since 1919 lies been director of the Royal Academy of Music in Utrecht. This Overture was written in 1905.
JULIUS RONTGEN, composer and Pianist, was born in Leipzig in 1855, but has all his life been identified (as has his son, Julius) with musical affairs in Holland, where, since 1913, he has been director of the Amsterdam Conservatoire.