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Maximilian Oswald Beck and Minna Frank/Franck
Daughter, Viola Beck and husband Paul Van Katwijk, who was a Dutch-American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He was an important figure in the classical music culture of Dallas, Texas, for much of the 20th century. He served as the music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for eleven years.
Paul Van Katwijk married pianist Viola Beck in 1922. Like her husband, Beck was a composer and a member of the piano faculty at Southern Methodist University. Paul and Viola van Katwijk toured extensively as a duo-piano team.
Paul van Katwijk died in Dallas in 1974 at the age of 89. The van Katwijks had no children.
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