sentences:  As a young man he was an accompanist for singers and with the "Nederlandsche Opera", of which he conducted for the first time in 1899.He became the artistic director briefly in 1903, the same year he married the soprano Rosina van Ophemert, who took the stage name Rosina van Dyke/van Dyck (Rosina van Dijk was the maiden name of her grandmother).For a short time he was accompanist to Mathilde Marchesi in Paris.