Huub de Lange

Life

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 his 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. Since his appearance on this choral site in August 2006 his works are performed worldwide.

As a composer Huub de Lange also works on commission. If you like his music and want a composition espescially written for your choir, do not hesitate to contact the composer by e-mail for prices and possibilities. Please make clear what kind of choral composition you have in mind.

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   (   )
• Riddle   (   )
• 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. The Early Hour   (   )
  2. Light and Shadow   (   )
  3. The Beautiful Changes   (   )
  4. Frozen World   (   )
  5. Dancing With Alicia   (   )
  6. The Dark Tarn   (   )
  7. Indra   (   )
  8. Painting of a Communion   (   )
  9. The Daylight is Dying   (   )
  10. 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   (   )
• Salut Reine   (  )

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   (   )