Gustav Lange (composer, 1830)
Gustav Lange (* 13. August 1830 in Schwerstedt ; † 20th July 1889 in Wernigerode ) was a German composer of the Romantic .
life and work
Gustav Lange received piano and organ lessons from his father as a child . He later studied piano, organ, figured bass and composition at the Erfurt Conservatory . Encouraged by his success as a composer in the 1860s , Lange composed around 500 piano works, including fantasies , marches , polonaise , mazurkas and transcriptions of famous works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Anton Rubinstein, and others. Most of his pieces can be assigned to salon music and therefore feature does not have a particularly high level of difficulty. The piano piece Edelweiß (op.31) and the flower song (op.39) are the composer's best-known works today.
Web links
- Works by and about Gustav Lange in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Gustav Lange (composer, 1830) in the International Music Score Library Project
- Catalog of works on Klassika
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lange, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerstedt (near Straussfurt) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1889 |
| Place of death | Wernigerode |