EDO DE WAART WILL TAKE OVER IN MINNEAPOLIS

Edo de Waart will be the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra beginning with the 1986-87 season, the Minnesota Orchestral Assn. announced Thursday.

He will succeed current music director Sir Neville Marriner, who will leave his post in May, 1986. Marriner was knighted in June.

Under terms of the four-year agreement, De Waart, formerly music director of the San Francisco Symphony, will conduct 10 to 12 weeks of concerts during his inaugural season. The agreement calls for a minimum of 16 weeks in each of the remaining years of the contract.

Currently music director of the Netherlands Opera, the 44-year-old conductor will relinquish his leadership of that organization at the end of the 1987-88 season. De Waart and his wife, Katherine, are expected to move to Minneapolis before September, 1986.

De Waart became music director of the San Francisco Symphony in 1977. In 1980, he opened Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, the orchestra’s first permanent home.