DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

632 LANG LANGE
and more prominent as a concert pianist in
Boston, playing freqnently at tlie concerts of
the Harvard Musical Association, at chamber
concerts of his own, and with the Mendelssohn
Quintette Clul]. As pianist as well as conductor
he has been noted for his energy in bringing
new works into notice ; in fact, in all the departments
of musical activity his indefatigable
industry and aggressive personality have made
him one of the most potent forces working for
progress in Boston ; outside of the New England
capital and its immediate environs, however,
his influence has been little felt. His labours
as a composer have been less important than as
an interpreter ; yet he has written an oratorio,
' David, ' symphonies, overtures, chamber music,
pieces for the pianoforte, church music and
many songs, most of wliich compositions remain
in manuscript. In 1903 Yale University con-
ferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
(See Boston Musical Societies.)
His daughter, M.^egaret Euthven, was
born in Boston, Nov. 27, 1867. She began
the study of the pianoforte under one of her
father's pupils, and later continued it under
his ovTD. direction. She also began the study
of the violin with Louis Schmidt in Boston,
and continued it under Drechsler and Abel in
Munich in 1886-87. While in Munich she
studied composition with Victor Gluth. Returning
to America she went to George W.
Chadwick for composition and orchestration.
Among her works in the larger forms are a
'Dramatic Overture,' op. 12, performed by
the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1893 ; an
overture, ' Witichis, ' op. 10, performedin Chicago
by Theodore Thomas in the same year. These,
and a third overture, 'Totila,' op. 23, are still
in MS. She has also written ' Sappho's Prayer
to Aphrodite,' an aria for contralto with or-
chestra, performed in New York in 1896 ;
* Armida ' for soprano solo and orchestra, per-
formed at a Boston Symphony concert in 1896 ;
'Phoebus,' aria for baritone; a cantata for
solos, chorus, and orchestra ; a string quartet ;
several works for violin and pianoforte, and a
number of songs and pianoforte pieces which
have been pjublished. R. a.
LANG. A family of German musicians
originally from Mannheim, hut settling at
Munich, and mentioned here for the sake of
Josephine Lang (the second of that name),
bom at Munich, March 14, 1815, a young lady
of very remarkable musical gifts and personality,
who 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 Oct. 6, 1831 ; in WTiting
to Barmann (July 7 and Sept. 27, 1834), he
inquires for her, and in a letter, seven years
later (Dec. 15, 1841), to Professor G. E.
Kostlin of Tiibingen, to whom she was married
in 1842, he shows how deeply her image had
impressed itself on his suscejitible heart. She
published several books of songs (up to op. 38),
which from the reviews in the Allg. mus.
Zcitung, 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 Tonlebcn (ii. 116), and selects her
songs, opp. 12 and 14, as the best. She died at
Tubingen, Dec. 2, 1880. Connected with the
same family at an earlier date was Regina
L.ANG, a singer whose name was originally
Hitzelberg, born at "Wurzburg, 1786, 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 ilozart's 'Don Giovanni,'
and so pleased him that he is said to have urged
her to come to Paris (Mendel). She, however,
remained in Munich, and married Theobald
Lang, a violinist in the Court band. In 1812
or 1813 she was at A'ienna, and Beethoven
wrote in her album a song '
An
die Geliebte, ' to
Stoll's words, ' dass ich dir vom stillcn Auge,'
which was published about 1840 in a collection
called 'Das singende Deutschland. ' It is his
second version of the song— the former one
being dated by himself December 1811, and
having been published in 1814. See Notte-
bohm's Thematif. Catalogue, p. 183. G.
LANGDON, Richard, Mus.B. grandson of
,
Rev. Tobias Langdon, piriest - "vdcar of Exeter
Cathedral, graduated as Mus. Bac. at Oxford in
1761. In 1753 he received the appointments
of organist and sub-chanter of Exeter Cathedral,
but resigned them in 1777, when he became
organist of Ely Cathedral. This post he held
only for a few months, being appointed to
Bristol Cathedral in 1778. He quitted Bristol
in 1782 to become organist of Armagh Cathedral,
a post he resigned in 1794. In 1774 he
published ' Divine Harmony, a Collection, in
score, of Psalms and Anthems.' His published
compositions include 'Twelve Glees,' 1770, two
hooks of songs, and some canzonets. Two
glees and a catch by him are contained in
M'aiTen's ' He Vocal Harmony. '
died at Exeter,
Sept. 8, 1803. Langdon ia F is still a
favourite double chant. w. H. H.
LANGE, or LANGIUS, Hieronymxjs
Gregok, born at Havelberg in the Mark
Brandenburg about the middle of the 16 th
century, obtained in 1574 the post of schoolcantor
at Frankfort on the Oder, but becoming
paralysed in his hands and feet he removed to
Breslau in 1583, where he was received into
a charitable institution, and in spite of his
infirmity continued to devote himself to
musical composition till his death in 1587.
He was highly esteemed as a musician in
his o^^Ti time and for some time afterwards.
Lange and Lechner were thought to be no