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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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11874 to 1876 he taught at the music school at Basel, and in 1877 was called to Cologne to teach in the Conservatory. While there he directed the Kölner Männergesangverein and the choir of the Gürzenich concerts.
3In 1885 de Lange went to The Hague as rector of the Oratorio Society, remaining there until 1893, when he went to Stuttgart as substitute for Immanuel Faisst, on whose death in 1894 he became professor of the organ and counterpoint in the Conservatory. In 1900 he was appointed director of that institution.
5De Lange's works include eight organ sonatas, a pianoforte Concerto, three quartets, a Trio, a Quintet, four sonatas for violin and two for cello, a 'Concertstück' for cello and many partsongs for male voices, besides three symphonies and an oratorio, 'Moses', performed while he was at The Hague.
7(3) Daniel de Lange (b. Rotterdam, 11 July 1841; d. Point Loma, California, 31 Jan. 1918), violoncellist, pianist, organist, conductor and composer, brother of the preceding. He was at first a pupil of his father, then of Ganz and of Servais for the cello, and of Verhulst for composition. He taught at the music school at Lwów, where he joined his brother, in 1860-63 and then went to Paris to perfect his pianoforte and organ playing. While there he was organist of the Protestant church at Montrouge, and he remained until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, when he went back to Holland, taking up his abode at Amsterdam as teacher in the music school, which afterwards became the Conservatory. He was made secretary of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering van Toonkunst. He conducted several choral societies with great distinction and formed a party of eminent solo singers with which he performed old Netherlandish music. They gave concerts in the Albert Hall, London, during the Music and Inventions Exhibition of 1885 and created a great sensation by the exquisite finish of their performances.
9De Lange became director of the Amsterdam Conservatory (1895-1913). His works include an opera, 'De val van Kuilenburg'; incidental music for Victor Hugo's 'Hernani'; a Mass, a Requiem, a setting of Psalm XXII for solo voices, chorus and pianoforte, cantatas; 2 symphonies, an overture, 'Willem van Holland'; a cello Concerto, etc.
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13LANGE, Francisco Curt (b. Eilenburg, 12 Dec. 1903).
14Uruguayan (nationalized) musicologist of German birth. He studied at Leipzig, Berlin, Munich, where he qualified as an architect in 1923, and Bonn, where he took a doctor's degree in philosophy and musical sciences in 1927. He also holds a diploma for specialized studies in acoustics and the construction of musical instruments. Among others he studied with Nikisch, Oeser, Abert, Bekker, Bücken and Sandberger.
16Lange emigrated to Uruguay in 1923. In 1930 he organized the Discoteca Nacional del Uruguay at the SODRE, where he was musical adviser till 1949. He was also professor of musicology at Montevideo University from 1932 till 1940, when he founded the Instituto Interamericano de Musicología under the Uruguayan Ministry for Foreing Relations. He also founded and is president of the Editorial Cooperativa Interamericana de Compositores, which has organized some 1600 concerts of American music both in Europe and the Americas, and has published 65 works by present-day American composers. He has lectured at universities in all the South American countries as well as in the U.S.A., where he was a guest of honour of the Rockefeller Foundation and of the American Musicological Society. At the request of Dr. Cordell Hull he helped to organize the First American International Music Conference (Washington, 1939). As a guest of the State Department he became a technical adviser to Panamerican Union before being appointed the first chief of the Musicological Department of the University of Texas and lecturing at a number of other universities and colleges. During a two-year visit to Brazil he discovered thousands of forgotten colonial scores and documents besides founding the Discoteca Pública Municipal at Recife. In 1948 he was appointed by the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, at Mendoza, to organize and direct a Department of Musicology, and he represented the University at the First National Congress of Philosophy in the U.S.A. He was also invited to the First International Congress of Sacred Music at Mexico and to the International Congress of Sacred Music in Rome.
18In 1934 Lange originated the "Americanismo Musical" movement, and the next year he published the first volume, with musical supplement, of his monumental 'Boletín Latino-Americano de Música' as the official organ of the Instituto Interamericano de Musicología. Subsequent volumes have appeared at Lima, Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. Besides publishing other musicological works, Lange has translated many scientific and philosophical books into Spanish. Between 1934 and 1938 he published his 'Fonografía pedagógica', a guide to the educational use of gramophone records, in 3 volumes. He has also published a quantity of Venezuelan 18th-century church music for the Venezuelan government; an album of 12 Latin-American composers in New York; a collection of 18th-century church music which he discovered in the district of Minas Gerais, Brazil; and he is
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