Hans Lang (composer, 1897)

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Hans Lang (born August 20, 1897 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , † July 17, 1968 in Munich ) was a German composer, music teacher, music teacher for harmony at the University of Education in Eichstätt .

Life

Hans Lang was the oldest of Anna Lang's four children (1868–1955), b. Hartwich, and Johann Lang (1865–1935). Johann attended the preparatory school in Regensburg and the teacher training institute in Amberg. The excellent musical training there, as “elementary school teachers” received at that time, included piano, organ, violin, singing and harmony. In addition, they received liturgical instructions for church service.

“Maintaining music was a matter of course in his family”. The family moved to Landsberg am Lech in the Upper Palatinate in the year that their son Hans von Weiden was born . As early as 1903 the family moved to Eichstätt - two sons, Alois and Hans, and one daughter, Anna. “One can say that the Litera C 235 house in what was then Grabengässchen (now Wohlmuthgass 2) has been a focus of private music care in the city since 1903, the year the family moved in, and since the 1920s it has also been in the private sphere. "

The father Johann worked here as a preparatory teacher at the Royal Teachers Training Institute - former Dominican monastery , today Gabrieli-Gymnasium - in Eichstätt, where over time he became a professor and finally deputy director.

Music was played in the family every day. The entire Lang family was represented by five people in performances under the cathedral music director Wilhelm Widmann (1858–1939), who was active from 1887 to 1927 and called "Capello" by the Eichstätter. As Hans Lang writes when attempting an autobiography , his mother taught him to play the piano on a Blüthner grand piano. When he was 10 years old, Hans went to the Humanist High School, today's Willibald High School . At the age of 15 he played the school services every day on the largest organ in Eichstatt. After graduating from high school in 1916 and serving in the First World War, he returned to Eichstätt in 1919. In the following years he studied at the University of Munich, completed a course for combatants at the teachers' college in Eichstätt in 1920 and worked as an (auxiliary) teacher in and around Eichstätt. From 1921 he studied organ, choral singing and composition at the Academy of Music in Munich, keeping Eichstätt as his main residence. From 1924 to 1927 Hans Lang belonged to Joseph Haas' master class and was also the conductor of the Eichstätter Liedertafel . The chairman of the Liedertafel was the music-loving Justizrat Michael Morhard (1867–1942), who from 1914 to 1933 was also a far-sighted and determined national chairman of the Franconian Choir Association . He promoted Hans Lang in every possible way.

The first great success was his three madrigals "Sprüche aus dem Cherubinischen Wandersmann " for male choir , clarinet and viola at the "First Nuremberg Singers Week" in 1927. His friendship with Ludwig Hahn from Neumarkt - the founder of the "Kaufbeurer Martinsfinken" - probably also worked those three madrigals back. In this work one can find the compositional features that characterize his work, namely a return to polyphony, clarity of form, economical use of resources. The composers Armin Knab , Walter Rein and Erwin Lendvai , then Bruno Stürmer , Willy Sendt (1907–52), Otto Siegl and Ernst-Ludwig von Knorr ( 1896–52) also belong to this historical direction, which bears the name “Nuremberg School”. 1973).

In the following years Hans Lang turned almost exclusively to choral composition. In 1927 he took on a three-year teaching position at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne for music theory and music education. Then he came to teach at the Nuremberg Conservatory.

In 2013 the Sängermuseum in Feuchtwangen (Foundation for the Documentation and Research Center of the German Choir) received the estate of Hans Lang.

literature

  • Friedhelm Brusniak: The big book of the Franconian Singing Association, 1st part . Published by the Franconian Singers Association. Schwingenstein-Verlag, Munich 1991
  • Hans wheel player:  Lang, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 536 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Radlayers (Berarb.): Hans Lang. Directory of his works 1924–1967 (= publications of the Eichstätt University Library. Volume 54). Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2003, ISBN 3-7952-1091-7 .
  • Hans Lang. In: Franconian singer newspaper. 4th year, No. 8, August 1957.
  • Hans Lang. In: Franconian singer newspaper. Volume 31, No. 10, October 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Radplayer (arr.): Hans Lang. List of his works 1924–1967. 2003, p. 15.
  2. ^ Radplayer (arr.): Hans Lang. List of his works 1924–1967. 2003, p. 9.
  3. ^ Radplayer (arr.): Hans Lang. List of his works 1924–1967. 2003, p. 25.
  4. ^ Sängermuseum Foundation Documentation and Research Center for German Choirs. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher, music teacher for harmony
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Willows in the Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1968
Place of death Munich