Klaus Lang

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Klaus Lang (born April 26, 1971 in Graz ) is an Austrian composer , concert organist and improvisation musician.

Life

He studied composition, music theory and organ at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz , his teachers were Hermann Markus Preßl , Beat Furrer and Younghi Pagh-Paan . He has been teaching as a professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 2006 and lives in Styrian Lassnitz (Murau district, Upper Styria). In 2008 he was a lecturer in composition at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music .

At the beginning of President Trump's term in office, the composer did not receive a visa to travel to the United States - without justification - to attend the performance of his mass missa beati pauperes spiritu in Los Angeles on March 3, 2017, as intended . He expressed belief that the reason was that he had been in Iran four years earlier.

Works

Klaus Lang's works cover the entire spectrum from solo pieces to chamber music and orchestral works. A special focus is his work in the field of opera ( e.g . : queen ec , die perser. , Spruce. , BUCH ASCHE. ). Constantly on the lookout for new forms of musical theater, he has worked for many years with the set designer and spatial artist Claudia Doderer .

As a commission for the Bayreuth Festival , financed by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation , Lang composed the opera The Disappeared Wedding , for which he also wrote the libretto. The world premiere took place on July 24, 2018 in the Bayreuth cultural center Reichshof . The music is timed to the second and is therefore not coordinated by a conductor, but by digital metronomes on screens in the auditorium.

In addition to his artistic work, Klaus Lang has written a large number of articles for magazines or encyclopedias (e.g. positions , KunstMusik, Grove ) and published a work entitled Auf Wohlklangswellen durch der Töne Meer on the subject of historical moods.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graz composer Klaus Lang did not receive a US visa orf.at, February 25, 2017, accessed February 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ The missing wedding. In: www.bayreuther-festspiele.de. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Christian Wildhagen: Bayreuth Festival: Elsa prefers to flee with horn and ring. In: www.nzz.ch. July 26, 2018, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Kunstuniversität Graz: Andrezj Dobrowolski Prize 2010 goes to Klaus Lang ; accessed on Dec. 2, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Long, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, concert organist and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz