De Wolff’s St Matthew Passion

Maurits Schmidt’s book ‘Het geheim van Naarden - zwerftocht door een Matthäus-traditie' (The secret of Naarden - a ramble through the St Matthew Passion tradition) reminisces about the conductorship of De Wolff in Naarden: "In the vestry after a concert, he was so angry once that he broke his baton into five pieces and threw them at the choir. One of the members had fallen asleep during the concert, which was being televised to boot!”