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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1at Columbia University. His book 'Music in Western Civilization' was published in 1941 and is a review of the growth and popularity of music throughout the West from the times of ancient Greece and Rome to the present day. He proves many suppositions concerning the music in the Gothic and Renaissance periods incorrect, adds much valuable information on 14th- and 15th-century musicians, and indicates the important effect of political, social and national affairs on music.
3M. K. W.
5LANG, Regina (born Hitzelberg) (b. Wurzburg, 1786; d. ?).
6German soprano singer. She was educated at Munich by Winter, Cannabich and Vogel, and appointed chamber singer at the Bavarian court. When Napoleon I was at Munich in 1806 she sang before him in Winter's 'Interrupted Sacrifice' and Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' and so pleased him that he is said to have urged her to go to Paris. But she remained at Munich and married Theobald Lang, a violinist in the court orchestra. In 1812 or 1813 she was in Vienna, and Beethoven wrote in her album a song, 'An die Geliebte', to Stoll's words, "O das ich dir vom stillen Auge", which was published about 1840 in a collection called 'Das singende Deutschland'. It is his second version of the song—the earlier one being dated by himself Dec. 1811 and having been published in 1814.1
8LANG, Walter (b. Basel, 19 Aug. 1896).
9Swiss pianist and composer. He began his studies at Basel, but in 1913 became a pupil of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze at Hellerau near Dresden, and then at Geneva, where for a time he taught at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze. In 1916 he went to Munich, where Friedrich Klose was among his teachers, after which he worked at Zurich under Volkmar Andreae and Walter Frey. In 1920 he became professor of harmony at the Wolff Conservatory of Basel, and in 1922 he joined the staff of the Zurich Conservatory as pianoforte teacher. Himself a concert pianist, he founded the Lang Trio with Walter Kagi and Franz Hindermann. In 1942-48 he was pianist and conductor for Radio Monte Ceneri, but in the latter year he returned to Zurich. In 1949 he was appointed pianoforte teacher at the Conservatories of Berne and Basel.
11As a composer Lang has cultivated all the musical forms except opera. His style is determined mainly by rhythmic vitality and impressionist tone-colour. Deserving special attention is his pianoforte music, which often serves the purposes of teaching and ranges through all the grades of difficulty from the simplest small pieces to brilliant concert works (see titles below).
131 See Nottebohm's Thematic Catalogue, p. 183.
15The following are Lang's principal works:
16Dance play 'Leggende del Ticino'.
17'Bulgarische Volksweisen' for chamber orch., Op. 18 (1927).
18'Sonata festiva' for stg. orch., Op. 25 (1935).
19Symphony.
20'Scherzo fugato' for stg. orch.
21'Jour de fête' for orch., Op. 58 (1950).
22'Variationen über ein sibirisches Straßlingslied' for viola & orch., Op. 28.
23Pf. Concerto.
24Fantasy for vn., cello & orch.
25Cello Concerto, Op. 60 (1951).
26Songs with orch.
27String Quartet, Op. 6.
28String Trio, Op. 24.
29Quartet in variation form for vn., viola, cello & pf., Op. 52.
30'Tagebuch' for pf., Op. 43.
31'Klangskizzen' for pf., Op. 47.
32'Der Baumeister' for pf., Op. 50.
332 Sonatinas for pf., Op. 51.
34Concert Studies for pf.
35Numerous songs.
37H. E. & K. V. F.
39LANGA, Francisco Soto de. See SOTO DE LANGA.
41LANGDON, Richard (b. Exeter, c. 1729; d. Exeter, 8 Sept. 1803).
42English organist and composer. He was a grandson of the Rev. Tobias Langdon, priest-vicar of Exeter Cathedral, and graduated as Mus.B. at Oxford in 1761. In 1753 he received the appointments of organist and sub-chantor of Exeter Cathedral, but resigned them in 1777, when he became organist of Ely Cathedral. This post he held for only a few months, being appointed to Bristol Cathedral in 1778. He left Bristol in 1782 to become organist of Armagh Cathedral, a post he resigned in 1794.
44In 1774 Langdon published 'Divine Harmony, a Collection, in score, of Psalms and Anthems'. His published compositions include 'Twelve Glees' (1770), two books of songs and some canzonets. Two glees and a catch by him are contained in Warren's 'Vocal Harmony'.
46W. H. H.
48LANGE, Aloysia. See WEBER, family.
50LANGE, DE. Dutch family of musicians.
51(1) Samuel de Lange, sen. (b. Rotterdam, 9 June 1811; d. Rotterdam, 15 May 1884), organist and composer. He was organist of the church of St. Lawrence at Rotterdam and wrote pieces for his instrument.
52(2) Samuel de Lange, jun. (b. Rotterdam, 22 Feb. 1840; d. Stuttgart, 7 July 1911), organist, conductor, teacher and composer, son of the preceding. He learnt music from his father at first, studied further with Verhulst in Holland and then went to Vienna, where he was a pupil of A. Winterberger. After travelling as a virtuoso in Galicia in 1858-59, he settled at Lwów for four years, but in 1863 he was appointed organist at Rotterdam and given a teaching appointment in the music school of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering van Toonkunst, making occasional concert tours in Switzerland, Germany, France, etc. From
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