This document explores the formative education and early career of Dutch composer and conductor Jan Willem van Otterloo (1907-1978), and provides a guide for conductors to the authors wind ensemble transcription of Otterloos Third Suite for orchestra, winner of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras composition contest in 1932. Otterloos writing for wind instruments in Third Suite and other compositions is emphasized as a salient and important feature of his work. Twenty-nine score reductions from the Third Suite help illustrate and define the characteristics of Otterloos compositional style. The author intends for this document to encourage more wind band conductors to program Otterloos music.