Max Lang (composer)

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Max Lang (born January 11, 1917 in Zurich , Switzerland ; † May 29, 1987 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss musician , composer and conductor .

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Max Lang first completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic. He then studied at the Basel Conservatory and in 1936 took his orchestral diploma in trumpet with Paul Huebner. After that he was principal trumpeter in the Basel Orchestra Society until 1945 and worked as a répétiteur . During this time he acquired the teaching diploma in piano with Charlotte Schrameck in 1939 and the Kapellmeister diploma in conducting with Hans Münch in 1946 .

His first compositions were written in 1941 . In 1945 he attended master classes for composition with Arthur Honegger and in 1946 was appointed house composer and musical director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich by Oskar Wälterlin . There he wrote over 30 works for the stage. These include It is written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , which in 1947 directed by Kurt Horwitz was premiered, and Graf Öderland by Max Frisch , the 1951 under the direction of Leonard Steckel was premiered.

From 1951 he was Kapellmeister and chief musical director at the St. Gallen Theater , where several of his pieces were premiered. 1966/1967 he was interim director with Siegfried Meisner and Bernhard Enz. In 1983 he retired.

Max Lang was an enthusiastic glider and motorized pilot, he also worked for a few years as a flight instructor , especially at the St. Gallen-Altenrhein airfield . His Ballet symphonique pour orchester Icare is dedicated to this passion.

He was married to Monique Lang-Eichelberg and had two sons and a daughter. After his death, his widow administered the rights to the musical works.

Works

Operas:

Radio operas:

  • The Ruby (1945)
  • The magic barrel (1945)

Ballet and dance compositions:

  • Kirke (1943, mythological dance scenes based on Max Terpis )
  • Pièce choréographique (1943)
  • Mrs. Mab, who is she? (1945)
  • Dance of Death (1947, dance pantomime for Trudi Schoop )
  • Visions en masques (1947)
  • Pierrot lunatique (1948, pantomime for Helen Vita )
  • Phoebidas and the Nymph (1952)
  • The Vixen (originally La Cage d'or ; 1953)
  • Icare (1955)
  • Dorian Gray - Today based on The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1966)

Max Lang created instrumental and vocal works, worked on well-known materials such as The Threepenny Opera for flute, trombone and accordion and The Imaginary Ill for instrumental ensemble. He edited works by other composers such as Frederic Chopin , Claude Debussy , Gaetano Donizetti , Duke Ellington , Edvard Grieg , Liszt , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Modest Mussorgsky , Giacomo Puccini , Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , Stravinsky and Giuseppe Verdi . Friedrich Nietzsche was particularly interested in the compositional work .

He also composed music for films and radio plays and titles for actors and cabaret artists such as Lukas Ammann , Blanche Aubry and Zarli Carigiet , Arnold Kübler and Ines Torelli .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Max Lang im Fex on maxlang.ch
  2. ^ Herbert Maeder : Max Lang, conductor and composer. For the broadcast Portrait in Noten by Radio Beromünster , May 26, 1961 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  3. ↑ According to Herbert Maeder: Max Lang, conductor and composer , his flight log includes around 10,000 take-offs and landings.
  4. ^ Stations - Guy Andrea Lang on guylang.ch
  5. ^ "Dorian Gray" in Schwerin on ballettfreundehamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Long, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1987
Place of death St. Gallen , Switzerland