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 his 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. Huub's song ‘Fred Astaire’ was released as a single and reached the single-charts in the beginning of 1981 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCK3anBTDU). Despite the success he 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 his days, 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, violoncello 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, how 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 choral compositions have been written for mixed choir, both a cappella and to the accompaniment of piano, organ or orchestra.

Contact information

E-mail: huubdelange (at) planet.nl

List of choral works

English texts

• 3 Christmas Songs
  1. A Christmas Carol   ( )
  2. A Christmas Fable   ( )
  3. A Christmas Hymn   ( )
• 3 Edgar Allan Poe Songs
  1. A Dream Within a Dream   ( )
  2. The Lake   ( )
  3. The Bells   ( )
• 4 Romantic Poems
  1. A light exists in spring   ( )
  2. The Land of Dreams   ( )
  3. In a green arbour   ( )
  4. The daylight is dying   ( )
• 4 Tennyson Elegies
  1. A Moonlit Elegy   ( )
  2. Be near me when my light is low   ( )
  3. As a dove when up she springs   ( )
  4. I should not feel it to be strange   ( )
• All people that on earth do dwell (Psalm 100)  ( )
• Angel of the Night   ( )
• Anthem for Doomed Youth   ( )
• Daffodils   ( )
• Four Blake Songs
  1. Cradle Song   ( )
  2. The Little Black Boy   ( ] )
  3. Laughing Song   ( )
  4. The Fly   ( )
• Four Stuart Songs
  1. Spring, The Sweet Witch   ( )
  2. The Gift   ( )
  3. The Pensive Autumn   ( )
  4. War Memorial   ( )
• 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   ( )
  10. Little Song to end a Symphony of Dreams   ( )
• 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 Garden of Proserpine   ( )
• The Lamb   ( )
• The Roundel   ( )
• The Voice   ( )
• Three Shakespeare Songs
  1. A tale told by an idiot   ( )
  2. Shall I compare thee   ( )
  3. All the world's a stage   ( )

French texts

• Chanson de Louange (Psalm 100)  ( )
• L'Eternel est mon berger (Psalm 23)  ( )
• La Charité   ( )
• Notre Père   ( )
• Salut Reine   ( )

' German texts

• 4 Liedchen von Liebe und Tod
  1. In der Fremde   ( )
  2. Der Fischer   ( )
  3. Christiane   ( )
  4. Die Liebe   ( )
• Drei Claudius Lieder
  1. Der Mensch   ( )
  2. O Gottes Engel   ( )
  3. Um Mitternacht   ( )
• Drei Goethe Lieder
  1. Erlkönig   ( )
  2. Meeresstille   ( )
  3. Gefunden   ( )
• Hermann Hesse Lieder
  1. Sommermittag   ( )
  2. Blumen nach einem Unwetter   ( )
  3. Nacht   ( )
  4. Blauer Schmetterling   ( )
• Himmel und Erde in Weimar   ( )
• 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

• Credo   ( )
• De profundis (Psalm 130)  ( )
• Magnificat   ( )
• Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)  ( )
• Missa A Cappella
  1. Kyrie   ( )
  2. Gloria   ( )
  3. Credo   ( )
  4. Sanctus   ( )
  5. Agnus Dei   ( )
• O magnum mysterium   ( )
• O salutaris hostia   ( )
• Requiem
  1. Introïtus   ( )
  2. Kyrie   ( )
  3. Sanctus   ( )
  4. Pie Jesu   ( )
  5. Agnus Dei   ( )
  6. In Paradisum   ( )
  7. Te Deum   ( )
• Stabat Mater   ( )
• Veni Sancte Spiritus   ( )

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