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]
Halfway 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). To realize this project he learned in Monnickendam (an 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 that run the mechanism of the mechanical organ. [3]
In 2016 the short movie 'Life and Death in a Street-organ', based on tracks of the album, will be produced by NiNa films/Belgium. [4]
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
- 3 Edgar Allan Poe Songs
- 4 Romantic Poems
- 4 Tennyson Elegies
- All people that on earth do dwell (Psalm 100)
- Angel of the night
- Anthem for doomed youth
- Daffodils
- Four Blake Songs
- Four Shakespeare Songs
- Four Stuart Songs
- Four Wilbur Songs
- Indian Love Songs
- Riddle
- Symphony of dreams
- Demon
- The Land of dreams
- The Ride
- No man's land
- Written in early spring
- Moon over a winding river
- Courtly dance
- A Dream within a dream
- Everybody dancing with everybody
- Litte song to end a symphony of dreams
- Symphony of light and shadow
- The early hour
- The little black boy
- The beautiful changes
- Frozen world
- Dancing with Alicia
- The dark tarn
- Indra
- Painting of a communion
- The daylight is dying
- 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
- Drei Claudius Lieder
- Drei Goethe Lieder
- Hermann Hesse Lieder
- Himmelhoch
- Jahreszeiten
- Myrte Lieder
- Unverweslich Sein
- Wandervögel
] Latin texts
- Credo
- De profundis (Psalm 130)
- Magnificat
- Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
- Missa A Cappella
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Missa Aura
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- O magnum mysterium
- O sacrum convivium
- O salutaris hostia
- Requiem
- Introïtus
- Kyrie
- Sanctus
- Pie Jesu
- Agnus Dei
- In Paradisum
- Te Deum
- Stabat Mater
- Veni Creator Spiritus
- Veni Sancte Spiritus
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