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'''Born:''' 7 July 1955, Groningen, the Netherlands.
'''Born:''' 7 July 1955, Groningen, the Netherlands.


'''Biography:''' 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.
'''Biography:''' In 1979, halfway his studies in musicology at the University of Utrecht, a number of Huub de Lange's songs were recorded by The Mo, a popgroup that he had founded earlier that year together with my brother Clemens.
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 Huub's compositions on the album, ‘Fred Astaire’, was released as a single and reached the single-charts in the beginning of 1981.  
Despite the success Huub decided that the life of a popmusician, doing his gigs night after night, was not the kind of life that he wanted for the rest of my life, and he left the band.<br>
Several years followed  of  ‘all kinds of everything’ including studies in Drama at the University of Amsterdam, that he completed in 1985.


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...).<br>
In 1995 there was the release of a cd called ‘Life and Death in a Street-organ’ containing twelve short compositions that he wrote for the combination of a traditional Dutch street-organ and live played strings (violin, violincello and double bass). To realize this project he 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.
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.
Nowadays he lives, together with his friend Henk, in Vinkeveen, a village between Amsterdam and Utrecht. Most of his recent compositions have been written for mixed choir, both a cappella and to the accompaniment of piano, organ or orchestra.
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.<br> 
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.<br>
Several years followed  of  ‘all kinds of everything’ including studies in Drama at the University of Amsterdam, that I completed in 1985.<br>
Meanwhile my true passion, composing, had never stopped (and will never stop!) and my new music gradually moved into a slightly more ‘serious’ direction.<br>
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.<br>
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!





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Born: 7 July 1955, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Biography: In 1979, halfway his studies in musicology at the University of Utrecht, a number of Huub de Lange's songs were recorded by The Mo, a popgroup that he had founded earlier that year together with my brother Clemens. 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 Huub's compositions on the album, ‘Fred Astaire’, was released as a single and reached the single-charts in the beginning of 1981. Despite the success Huub decided that the life of a popmusician, doing his gigs night after night, was not the kind of life that he wanted for the rest of my life, and he left the band.
Several years followed of ‘all kinds of everything’ including studies in Drama at the University of Amsterdam, that he completed in 1985.

In 1995 there was the release of a cd called ‘Life and Death in a Street-organ’ containing twelve short compositions that he wrote for the combination of a traditional Dutch street-organ and live played strings (violin, violincello and double bass). To realize this project he 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.

Nowadays he lives, together with his friend Henk, in Vinkeveen, a village between Amsterdam and Utrecht. Most of his recent compositions have been written for mixed choir, both a cappella and to the accompaniment of piano, organ or orchestra.


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E-mail: huubdelange(at)planet.nl

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