Hans Lang (composer, 1908)
Hans Lang (born July 5, 1908 in Vienna ; † January 28, 1992 ibid) was an Austrian composer of light music and Viennese songs .
Life
Hans Lang attended the Vienna Commercial Academy and studied music with Carl Lafite at the New Vienna Conservatory . Lang was a supervisory board member of Austro-Mechana and vice-president of the cooperative of dramatic authors and composers. He composed the incidental music for around 25 comedies such as Hofrat Geiger , Fiakermilli and The Old Sinner .
He was best known for his film music for many home films from the 1950s such as Lumpacivagabundus , Der Hofrat Geiger , Der alten Sünder , Hallo Dienstmann , Ober, Pay! and The Fiakermilli . In a duet with his partner Maria Andergast , Hans Lang also sang some of his own songs. He wrote the screenplay for the film Haifische der Nachwarszeit (1925) and the operetta Lisa, behave yourself! ( First performance March 21, 1939 Vienna). On many pieces he worked with the lyricist Erich Meder . Many of her Viennese songs became very popular.
Lang also composed folk songs under the pseudonym Lois Wurzinger , such as Abend am Almsee (text: Hanna Maria Drack ) and Der Gamsbock (text: Karl Edelhofer = Erich Meder).
He rests in an honorary grave in the Neustift cemetery . In 1996 the Hans-Lang-Weg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.
Stage works
- Die Hofloge (operetta) (first performance March 28, 1936, Scala Vienna)
- Lisa, behave! ( World premiere March 21, 1939 Vienna)
Songs
- What is the street for?
- Laugh a little, wine a little
- You have to be able to wait for happiness
- Dear little conductress
- The old chancellor
- When Steffel becomes the way he was again
- Mariandl
- You are the rose from the Wörthersee
- Everything made in Austria
- In Vienna, time stands still a little
- Imagine the lights go out
- When I'm with my dachshund
- When I am blue-sick my old "red"
- My ancestor was from Urfahr (= In the Tröpferlbad = In the tram )
- We are street mates
- The Vienna weather
- The old sinner
- My pink is from Bohemia
- The old woodpecker
- I smell wine
- The Mr. Torero
- The Wurschtl
- Evening at the Almsee
- Farmer's rumba
- Peasant samba
- It's quiet now
- Any time
- Freckles
- Mice in the piano
- A glass of wine
Film music
literature
- Rupert Leutgeb / Wolfgang Tauscher: Hans Lang - Melodies go around the world. Zwettl 2008, ISBN 978-3-901287-13-8 .
Web links
- Media from and about Hans Lang in the catalog of the German National Library
- Film music by Hans Lang. In: Two thousand and one lexicon of international film
- Hans Lang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Stanicek, Wolfgang Bacher (Ed.): Erich Meder: A hit writer as chronicler of the Viennese soul. Berndorf 2017, p. 146
- ↑ Group R, Row 2, Number 18
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lang, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer of light music and Viennese songs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1992 |
| Place of death | Vienna |