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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1and he went to live in Paris, where he devoted his time to musicological work, editing old music and writing for musical journals.
3Among the works edited by Landshoff are:
5J. S. Bach's '15 zweistimmige Inventionen und 15 dreistimmige Sinfonien', 'Trio-Sonaten' (2 vols.), 'Musikalisches Opfer', 'Six Suites avec leurs préludes (Suites anglaises)', and the first edition of the recently discovered Sonata in F major for violin and harpsichord. To these must be added first editions of J. C. Bach and C. P. E. Bach, of Vivaldi, Haydn and others. His collections 'Alte Meister des Belcanto' (5 vols., 1912-1927) contain among other items nearly seventy arias of the 17th and 18th centuries, here published for the first time.
7Landshoff is also the author of a German adaptation of Rossini's 'Signor Bruschino', given at Wiesbaden in 1932.
9Among his musicological writings are:
11'Über das vielstimmige Accompagnement und andere Fragen des Generalbass-Spiels' ('Festschrift zum 50. Geburtstage von Adolf Sandberger', Munich, 1918).
12Introduction to the new edition of Haydn's English Canzonets.
13New edition of Friedrich Schlichtegroll's 'Necrolog auf Mozart' (Munich, 1924).
14'Revisionsbericht zur Urtext-Ausgabe von Johann Sebastian Bachs Inventionen und Sinfonien' (1933).
16A. H. (ii).
18LA NEUVILLE. See ADRIEN, MARTIN JOSEPH.
20LANFRANCO, Giovanni Maria (b. Terenzio, Parma, ?; d. ?).
22Italian 15th-16th-century ecclesiastical writer on music. He was, according to Fétis, maestro di cappella and canon at Brescia Cathedral. He wrote 'Scintille di musica' (published 1533), important for its information about contemporary musical instruments.
24E. v. d. s.
26Lang, Andrew. See Elgar ('My love dwelt', part-song). Stanford (song).
28LANG, Benjamin (Johnson) (b. Salem, Mass., 28 Dec. 1837; d. Boston, Mass., 4 Apr. 1909).
30American pianist, conductor, organist and teacher. His father was a well-known teacher of the pianoforte at Salem, and he began his studies under him, continuing them under Francis G. Hill of Boston. By the time he was fifteen years old he held a post as organist of a Boston church. In 1855 he went to Europe to study composition in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany, and pianoforte with Alfred Jaell; he also had some intercourse with Liszt.
32On his return to Boston Lang made his first public appearance as a pianist in 1858. His début as a conductor was made at Boston in May 1862, when he gave the first performance in that city of Mendelssohn's 'Walpurgisnacht'. The next year he shared with Carl Zerrahn the direction of the music at the jubilee concert in honour of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and from that time forth he figured more and more extensively at Boston as a conductor. He was appointed conductor of the Apollo Club, a men's singing society, on its formation in 1871 and remained until 1901. He was also conductor of Caecilia, a mixed choir, from its establishment in 1874, and of the Handel and Haydn Society for two seasons, 1895-97. He gave several complete performances of Wagner's 'Parsifal' in concert form.
34In the early 1860s Lang became prominent as a concert pianist at Boston, playing frequently at the concerts of the Harvard Musical Association, at chamber concerts of his own and with the Mendelssohn Quintet Club. As a composer he was less important than as an interpreter; yet he left an oratorio, 'David', symphonies, overtures, chamber music, pieces for the pianoforte, church music and many songs, mostly in manuscript. In 1903 Yale University conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
36LANG, Feliks Michał (b. ?; d. ?).
38Polish 18th-century singer and teacher of Bohemian origin. For very many years he taught singing at the musical school founded by Canon Waclaw Sierakowski at Cracow. He also was cantor at the Cracow Cathedral School about 1790.
40LANG, Josephine (b. Munich, 14 Mar. 1815; d. Tubingen, 2 Dec. 1880).
42German composer. She was the second of that name belonging to a musical family attached to the court of Mannheim and transferred with it to Munich. She had very remarkable musical gifts and personality, and attracted the notice of Mendelssohn when he passed through Munich in 1830 and 1831. There is an enthusiastic account of "die kleine Lang" in his letter of 6 Oct. 1831; in writing to Barmann (7 July and 27 Sept. 1834) he inquires for her, and in a letter, seven years later (15 Dec. 1841), to Professor C. R. Köstlin of Tubingen, to whom she was married in 1842, he shows how deeply her image had impressed itself on his susceptible heart. She published several books of songs (up to Op. 38), which from the reviews in the A.M.Z. appear to be full of imagination and well worthy of the warm praise bestowed on them by Mendelssohn in the letters just mentioned. Hiller tells the story of her life at length in his 'Tonleben' (II, 116) and selects her songs Opp. 12 and 14 as the best.
44LANG, Paul Henry (b. Budapest, 28 Aug. 1901).
46American musicologist of Hungarian origin. He was educated at the Humanistic "Gymnasium" and Academy of Music in Budapest, at the University of Paris and at the Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1934. He is the editor of the 'Musical Quarterly' and vice president of the International Society for Musicology. Since 1933 he has been Professor of Musicology
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