DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

LANGE LAXGHANS 633
unworthy compeers of Lassus. Various friends,
citizens of Breslau, cncouraj,'ed and helped liim
in the publication of his "works, which, however,
are not numerous. There are two Books of
' Cantiones Sacrae,' published 15S0 and 15S4
respectively, containing thirty-five Latin motets
for four, five, six, eight, and ten voices ; and two
books of Deutsche Lieder, 15S4, 1586, containing
forty German secular songs for three voices.
Besides these, there are only a few occasional
compositions published separate!}', chiefly ' Epdthalamia
' or wedding -songs in the form of
motets, the composition of which was no doubt
a source of income to Lutheran Cantors of
former days. The Deutsche Lieder for three
voices were frequently reprinted, and in 1615
Christoj>h Demantius rearranged them for five
voices. Although highly thought of in their
time, Eitner saj^s, these songs are less
attractive than those of Regnard, being somewhat
stiff and wanting in melody. The
rearrangement by Demantius is of greater
merit. But Lange's Latin motets stand upon
a higher level. In 1899 Reinhold Starke edited
for the GcsclIschaftfurMusikforschunga. selection
of twenty-four of these motets {Puhlil-ation,
Jahrgang 29), among which are several very
interesting numbers. ' Vae misero mihi,' with
its second part, ' vos omnes qui transitis,' is
very remarkable, on account of its unusual
chromatic modulations. A motet, ' Media
vita,' composed on the occasion of the death of
the General Superintendent, Musculus, one of
Lange's chief Frankfort patrons, the editor
considers as being quite in the mood of Sebastian
Bach. These motets must have enjoyed con-
siderable favour, as some of them were also
transcribed for the lute. Besides the published
works Starke enumerates a considerable number
among
of works which have remained in MS. ,
which are two masses and thirty other Latin
motets, and twenty German songs for four and
five voices, partly sacred. See his Monograph
on Lange contributed to the Mmiatsheftc fiir
Musil-ijrschkhtr, 1899, pp. 101-123. .T. E. M.
LANGE, DE, an eminent Dutch family of
musicians and organists ; the father, Samuel,
born June 9, 1811, died May 15, 1884, at
Rotterdam, was organist of the church of St.
Lawrence there, and an eminent teacher, as well
as a composer of pieces for the organ. He was
the teacher of his elder son, S.iMUEL, who was
born at Rotterdam, Feb. 22, 1840, and studied
with Verhulst, eventually going to Vienna for
further instruction from A. Winterberger. After
travelling as a virtuoso in Galicia in 1858-59,
he settled at Lemberg for four years, and in 1863
was appointed organist at Rotterdam, and given
a teaching appointment in the music school of the
Maatschappij tot bevordering van Toonknnst,
making occasional concert-tours in Switzerland,
Germany, France, etc. From 1874 to 1876 he
taught at the music school at Basle, and in 1877
was called to Cologne to teach in the Conservatorium.
"While tliere he directed the Kolner
Mannergesangverein and the choir of the Giirzenich
concerts. In 1885 he went to the Hague
as rector of the Oratorio society, and remained
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 Conservatorium. Various
choral societies took advantage of his residence
in Stuttgart, and engaged him as conductor. In
1900 he was appointed director of the Conservatorium.
His compositions include eight organ
sonatas, a piiano concerto, three quartets, a
trio, a cpiintet, four sonatas for violin and two
for violoncello, aconcertstiick for violoncello, and
many part-songs for male voices, besides threo
symphonies, and an oratorio, 'Moses,' performed
while he was at the Hague.
His brother, D.iNiEL, born July 11, 1841, at
Rotterdam, was a pupil of Ganz and Servais for
the violoncello, and of Verhulst for composition.
He taught at the music school at Lemberg 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 remained there until the outbreak
of the war, when he went back to Holland,
taking upj his abode at Amsterdam, as teacher
in the music school, which afterwards became the
Conservatorium. He was made secretary of the
Maatschappij tot bevordering van Toonkunst.
He conducted several choral societies wdth great
distinction, and formed a party of eminent solosingers
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.
De Lange became director of the Amsterdam
Conservatorium in 1895. His works include
two symphonies, cantatas, an opera, 'De val van
Enilenbnrg' ; an overture 'Willem van Holland'
music to ' Hernani ; a mass, a requiem ; a setting
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ofPs. xxii., for solos, choir, and piano ; a violon-
cello concerto, etc. (Riemann's Zca';'A'07i.) M.
LANGHANS, Feiedrich Wilhelm, author,
composer, and violinist, was born at Hamburg on
Sept. 21, 1832. His early general education was
received at the Johanneum in Berlin, and in
1849 he entered the Leipzig Conservatorium,
where his violin-teacher was David and his composition-master
Richter. On leaving Leipzig
Langhans went to Paris to study the violin
further under Alard. For five seasons, 1852-56,
he played first violiuin the Gewandhaus orchestra
in Leipzig; from 1857tol860wasconcertmeister
at Diisseldorf ; and then settled temporarily, as
teacher and violinist, in Hamburg, Paris, and
Heidelberg. From 1874 to 1881 he was professor
of the history of music at Kullak's Neue AkademiederToukunst,
when he joined Scharwenka's
newly founded Conservatorium, and ultimately
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