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Samuel de Lange

Samuel de Lange Jr / 1908

 

Samuel de Lange Jr. (22 October 1840 – 7 July 1911) was a Dutch composer, music conservatory director, organist, pianist, conductor and music teacher. His father, Samuel de Lange Sr., and his one year younger brother Daniël de Lange were also well known musicians.

Nocturne and Romance  

Nocturne und Romanze für vier Violoncelli (1900)

Mireya Peñarroya Segovia, cello
Isabel Vaz, cello
Asako Kanazawa, cello
Doris Hochscheid, cello


Samuel de Lange was an Organist and composer, son of Samuel de Lange Sr. After early studies with his father, J.F. Dupont and Verhulst, he took organ lessons in Vienna in 1859 from Winterberger, a Liszt pupil, while on a concert tour with his younger brother. In Lemberg (L'viv) he taught at the conservatory, where he also studied the piano with Karol Mikuli. The brothers returned in 1862 to Rotterdam where Samuel was appointed teacher at the Toonkunst music school, director of the Toonkunst choir and organist of the Waalse Kerk.

He played an influential part in the Dutch Bach renaissance, organizing and conducting orchestral concerts as well as playing keyboard instruments in solo and chamber music; he also promoted the organ works of Muffat, Frescobaldi, Liszt and Brahms. From 1877 to 1884 he lived in Cologne, where he taught the organ at the conservatory and was also a choral conductor. on returning to the Netherlands he became director of the Toonkunst music school of The Hague; in 1893 he left to teach at the Stuttgart Conservatory, which he directed from 1900 to 1908. He composed in a wide range of genres, and also published an edition of Muffat's Apparatus musico-organisticus (Leipzig, 1888).