Huub de Lange

Life

Born: 7 July 1955, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Althought I think that music must speak for itself, I feel obliged to provide at least some sort of short information about myself and my music. Since my choral compositions are published on this site I have learned by the requests I receive, that there is a need for extra information when works are performed. I can understand that sometimes there has to be written something in the booklets guiding a concert. So here’s some info, if only to avoid reading again a short bio of the Dutch jazzmusician Huub de Lange, born in 1961, when attending the performance of one of my pieces, as happened to me some time ago.

Well, to start at the beginning, as a child I was fascinated by both circus (espescially things like acrobatics) and music. I did spend quite some time behind the piano, at first inventing just little bits and melodies, playing them over and over again (not always to the highest approval of my family, by the way...).
From about the age of seventeen I gradually started to compose complete little pieces, both instrumental and songs.

In 1979, halfway my studies in musicology at the University of Utrecht, a number of my songs were recorded by The MO, a popgroup that I had founded earlier that year together with my brother Clemens. In this band I played both organ and bassoon. The demo of the music caught the attention of the Dutch record company Phonogram. An album, simply called ‘MO’, was released in Autumn 1980 and surprisingly reached the top 10 of the Dutch album-charts a few month later. One of the compositions on the album, ‘Fred Astaire’, was released as a single and reached the single-charts in the beginning of 1981. It can still be heard now and then on the Dutch radio.
Despite the success I decided that the life of a popmusician, doing his gigs night after night, was not the kind of life that I wanted for the rest of my life, and I left the band.
Several years followed of ‘all kinds of everything’ including studies in Drama at the University of Amsterdam, that I completed in 1985.
Meanwhile my true passion, composing, had never stopped (and will never stop!) and my new music gradually moved into a slightly more ‘serious’ direction.
In 1995 there was the release of a cd called ‘Life and Death in a Street-organ’ containing twelve short compositions that I wrote for the combination of a traditional Dutch street-organ and live played strings (violin, violincello and double bass), not quite a usual combination, but it gave me the opportunity to create some sort of ‘fairy-like’ atmosphere. To realize this project I learned in Monnickendam (a nice old little town near Amsterdam at the border of the Gouwzee) with technical support of Nico Genot, the builder of the street-organ, to manufacture the cardboard books, with the holes punched, that run the mechanism of the mechanical organ and make the organ-pipes sound. It was great fun working on this project.
Nowadays I live, together with my friend Henk, in Vinkeveen, a village between Amsterdam and Utrecht. Most of my recent compositions have been written for mixed choir, both a cappella and to the accompaniment of piano, organ or orchestra. Enjoy the music!

Contact Information

E-mail: huubdelange(at)planet.nl

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English texts

• 4 Romantic Poems
  1. A Light Exists In Spring   (   )
  2. The Land Of Dreams   (   )
  3. In A Green Arbour   (   )
  4. The Daylight Is Dying   (   )
• A Christmas Fable   (   )
• A Christmas Hymn   (   )
• A Dream Within A Dream   (   )
• A Moonlit Elegy   (   )
• Angel of the Night   (   )
• Be near me when my light is low   (   )
• Daffodils   (   )
• Four Blake Songs
  1. Cradle Song   (   )
  2. The Little Black Boy   (   )
  3. Laughing Song   (   )
  4. The Fly   (   )
• Four Wilbur Songs
  1. Boy at the window   (   )
  2. The Ride   (   )
  3. The Beautiful Changes   (   )
  4. To the Etruscan Poets   (   )
• Indian Love Songs
  1. Golden eyes   (   )
  2. Unforgotten   (   )
  3. The gold forlorn   (   )
• Symphony of Dreams
  1. Demon   (   )
  2. The Land of Dreams   (   )
  3. The Ride   (   )
  4. No Man's Land   (   )
  5. Written in Early Spring   (   )
  6. Moon over a Winding River   (   )
  7. Courtly Dance   (   )
  8. A Dream within a Dream   (   )
  9. Everybody Dancing with Everybody   (   )
• Symphony of Light and Shadow
  1. Adagio   (   )
  2. Light and Shadow   (   )
  3. The Beautiful Changes   (   )
  4. Frozen World   (   )
  5. Dancing With Alicia   (   )
  6. The Dark Tarn   (   )
  7. Indra   (   )
  8. Farewell   (   )
• The Voice   (   )
• Three Shakespeare Songs
  1. A tale told by an idiot   (   )
  2. Shall I compare thee   (   )
  3. All the world's a stage   (   )
• Three Stuart Songs
  1. The pensive autumn   (   )
  2. The gift   (   )
  3. War memorial   (   )

French texts

• La Charité   (   )
• Notre Père   (   )

German texts

• 5 Liedchen von Liebe und Tod
  1. In der Fremde   (   )
  2. Der Tod   (   )
  3. Der Fischer   (   )
  4. Christiane   (   )
  5. Die Liebe   (   )
• Drei Claudius Lieder
  1. Der Mensch   (   )
  2. O Gottes Engel   (   )
  3. Um Mitternacht   (   )
• Drei Goethe Lieder
  1. Erlkönig   (   )
  2. Meeresstille   (   )
  3. Gefunden   (   )
• Jahreszeiten
  1. Wenn es Winter wird   (   )
  2. Neuer Frühling   (   )
  3. Im Sommer   (   )
  4. Verklärter Herbst   (   )
• Myrte Lieder
  1. Mignon   (   )
  2. Licht und Friede   (   )
  3. Der Pilgrim   (   )
  4. Abendlied   (   )
• Unverweslich Sein   (   )
• Wandervögel   (   )

Latin texts

• Magnificat   (   )
• Miserere mei   (   )
• Missa Brevis
  1. Kyrie   (   )
  2. Gloria   (   )
  3. Sanctus   (   )
  4. Agnus Dei   (   )
• O magnum mysterium   (   )
• Requiem
  1. Introïtus   (   )
  2. Kyrie   (   )
  3. Sanctus   (   )
  4. Pie Jesu   (   )
  5. Agnus Dei   (   )
  6. In paradisum   (   )
  7. Te Deum   (   )
• Stabat Mater   (   )
• Veni Sancte Spiritus   (   )