Huub de Lange

Life

Born: 7 July 1955, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Biography:

In 1979, during 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. Bass and piano were played by Clemens, while Huub played organ and bassoon. The demo of the music, with fellow-musicians Heili Helder (vocals) and Harm Bieger (drums), 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.
The song 'Fred Astaire' was released as a single and reached the single-charts in the beginning of 1981. [1]
Fred Astaire himself reacted in a positive way to 'Fred Astaire'. [2]

May 1981 Huub 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 ('De Zuiderzee') and live played strings (by Albert van Eeghen/violin, Caroline Dubbeld/cello and Kees van der Heide/double bass).[3]

Nowadays he lives in Vinkeveen, a village between Amsterdam and Utrecht. 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: info @ huubdelange.com

List of choral works

English texts

• Christmas Songs
  1. A Christmas Carol
  2. A Christmas Fable  
  3. On Christmas night I heard that cry
  4. A Christmas Hymn
• 3 Edgar Allan Poe Songs
  1. A dream within a dream
  2. The lake
  3. The Bells
• 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. A Cradle Song
  2. The little black boy
  3. Laughing song
  4. The Fly
• Four Romantic Poems
  1. A light exists in spring
  2. The land of dreams
  3. In a green arbour
  4. The daylight is dying
• Four Shakespeare Songs
  1. A tale told by an idiot
  2. Shall I compare thee
  3. Blow, blow, thou winter wind
  4. All the world's a stage
• Four Stuart Songs
  1. Spring, The Sweet Witch
  2. The Gift
  3. War Memorial
  4. The Pensive Autumn
• 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. Litte song to end a symphony of dreams
• Symphony of light and shadow
  1. The early hour
  2. The little black boy
  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

French texts

• Chanson d'automne
• 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. Der Erlkönig
  2. Meeresstille
  3. Gefunden
• Hermann Hesse Lieder
  1. Sommermittag
  2. Blumen nach einem Unwetter
  3. Nacht
  4. Blauer Schmetterling
• Himmelhoch
• 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

• De profundis (Psalm 130)
• Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
• Missa A Cappella
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus
  5. Agnus Dei
• Missa Aura
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Sanctus
  4. Agnus Dei
• Missa Mysterium Vocis
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Agnus Dei
• O magnum mysterium
• O sacrum convivium
• 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 Creator Spiritus
• Veni Sancte Spiritus

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