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Dictionary of music, 1908
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1He wrote for Milan, London (1744–55), etc., a large number of operas, mostly serious and in the style of Hasse, in which the recitative is treated in a highly expressive manner.
3Landgraf, J. Fr. Bernhard, celebrated clarinettist, b. June 25, 1816, Dielsdorf (Weimar), d. Jan. 25, 1885, Leipzig; from 1840 principal clarinettist in the Gewandhaus orchestra.
5Landi, Steffano, Papal chapel singer (evirato) about 1630, previously church capellmeister at Padua, a sound church composer. He published: madrigals à 4 (1619); madrigals à 5 (1625); "Poesie diverse in musica" (1628); "Missa in benedictione nuptiarum" (1628); eight books of arias à 1–2 (1627–39); psalms à 4 (1629); a music drama, Sant' Alessio (1634); one pastoral, "La morte d'Orfeo" (1639); and one book of masses (a cappella) à 4–5.
7Landino, Francesco, known under the name of Francesco Cieco (the blind), or Francesco degli Organi, a highly famous organ-player and composer, b. about 1325, Florence, where he d. 1390. Of his compositions there have only been preserved some canzone à 2 and 3, which Fétis found in the Paris Library, and one of which he published in his Revue musicale (1827). For an appreciation of L. see A. G. Ritter's "Geschichte des Orgelspiels" (1884), p. 3.
9Ländler (Länderer, Dreher), old term for the so-called Landel (Austria beyond the Enns), originally a native slow waltz, danced in quiet, equal steps (3–4 time):
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14The L. has now become a characteristic dance, i.e. the name of one of the many types of instrumental music (cf. the Ländler of Beethoven, Schubert, Heller, Jensen, etc.) of characteristic rhythm, melody, and tempo. The melody of the L. generally moves along in quiet quavers. (Cf. the Waltz in the Freischütz.) The Tyrolienne (q.v.) is a French imitation of the L.
16Landolfi (Landulphus), Carlo Ferdinando, a renowned violin-maker at Milan, from 1750–60, whose 'celli stand even in higher repute than his violins. L. imitated Giuseppe Guarneri with great success.
18Lang, (1) (L. Köstlin), Josephine, b. March 14, 1815, Munich, d. Dec. 2, 1880, Tübingen, daughter of the court musician Theobald L., and of the famous singer Regina Hizelberger L. (for whom Peter Winter wrote the rôle of Myrrha in his Unterbrochene Opferfest); she was an excellent composer of songs, pupil of her mother, afterwards of Frau Berlinghof-Wagner, and, for theory, of Mendelssohn (1831), who held her in high esteem. After teaching singing and pianoforte for some time privately in Munich, she became one of the singers at the court. She married, in 1842, the Tübingen professor of law, Chr. Reinhold Köstlin (as poet, Karl Reinhold), who died already in 1856, and then she turned again to the teaching of music. A large number of songs and pf. pieces have appeared in print; many are still in manuscript. Her son, H. A. Köstlin, wrote her life (in the Sammlung musikalischer Vorträge, 1881).
20(2) Benjamin J., b. Dec. 28, 1839, Salem (Massachusetts, North America), excellent pianist (trained in Germany), to whom Boston is musically indebted. He has been for twenty-one years organist of the Handel and Haydn Society, also conductor of the Cecilia Society (mixed choir) and of the Apollo Club (male choir).
22Langbecker, Emanuel Christian Gottlieb, b. Aug. 31, 1792, Berlin, d. there Oct. 24, 1843, as secretary to Prince Waldemar of Prussia. He made a deep study of the history of the origin of the Protestant chorale, and wrote on that subject: "Das deutsch-evangelische Kirchenlied" (1830); "Johann Crügers … Choral Melodien" (1835); "Gesangblätter aus dem 16. Jahrhundert (1838); "Paul Gerhardts Leben und Lieder" (1841).
24Langdon, Richard, d. Sept., 1803, Armagh, Mus.Bac. (Oxford, 1761), organist at Exeter, Bristol, and finally at Armagh. He published: a collection, "Divine Harmony" (1774, two vols., Psalms and Anthems), also twelve glees, two books of songs, and some songs of his own composition.
26Lange, (1) Otto, b. 1815, Graudenz, d. Feb. 13, 1879; he was a school-teacher, also musical reporter to the Vossische Zeitung, edited (from 1846–58) the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung; he was also active as a teacher of school-singing in Berlin, and died as professor em. at Cassel. L. published several educational pamphlets, among which, "Die Musik als Unterrichtsgegenstand in Schulen" (1841).
28(2) Samuel de, organist and composer, b. Feb. 22, 1840, Rotterdam, where his father, of like name, was organist of St. Laurens Church and teacher at the school of music of the Society for the Advancement of Art (b. June 9, 1811, Rotterdam, d. there May 15, 1884). L. received his first education from the latter, and was further trained by A. Winterberger (Vienna), Damcke and Mikuli (Lemberg). L. is a distinguished organist, made concert tours from 1858–59 in Galicia, then settled in Lemberg for four years, and became organist and teacher at the Rotterdam Music School (Maatschappij tot bevordering van Toonkunst), whence he made concert tours in Switzerland, and appeared at Leipzig, Vienna, Paris, etc. From 1874–76 he was associated with the school of music at Basle, and, after a short stay in Paris, in 1877 became teacher at the Cologne Conservatorium, where he was conductor of the male choral society, and also of the "Gürzenichchor"
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