Hans Lange

Hans Lange ( born February 17, 1884 in Istanbul, † August 13 1960 in Albuquerque ) was a German - American violinist and conductor. He was a son of the Ottoman court music director Paul Lange.

Life

Lange et al went after his training in Prague, and after engagements in Germany, including in Bielefeld, 1925 in the U.S., where he built his career from scratch, after the German Ensemble, with whom he had toured in the U.S., had been dissolved there.

From 1927 he worked at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, first as a violinist, then as a conductor and assistant of Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini conducted the orchestra 1928-1936 in addition to his numerous engagements in Europe. But Lange also was self-employed as a conductor and made recordings, including with the famous Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.

After Toscanini 1936 was finally moved to the U.S. and head of the NBC Symphony Orchestra in New York, Long went in the same year at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he remained until 1943 Conductor was under Friedrich August Stock initially worked as an associate, then Désiré Defauw to 1946 as Conductor. Since Lange had not adopted U.S. citizenship during the war, his contract in Chicago in 1946 is not extended. On May 12, 1940 Lange took 5 Opus 73 with the CSO and the Polish-American pianist Józef Hofmann legend Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.. The recording ( 35 minutes ) is completely preserved and are available on a CD edition of the CSO, as well as piano anthologies of pianist Hofmann.

In the summer of 1947, Long worked in Toledo ( Ohio), where he led a local orchestra, the "Friends of Music Orchestra". Toscanini took him on April 13, 1947 again for a guest baton to New York for four concerts with the then headed by him, NBC Symphony Orchestra. Whether these performances sound recordings exist, is not known

1950 Long Music Director of the Albuquerque Civic Symphony (now New Mexico Symphony Orchestra ), which had recently written music history in November 1948, the world premiere of Schoenberg's work A Survivor from Warsaw. Long amateur ensemble built to one of today's best professional philharmonic orchestra in the United States.

The American composer Leon Stein was a student of Hans Lange.

See also

  • Bosphorus German

Swell

  • Conductor
  • Classical violinist
  • German
  • Americans
  • Born in 1884
  • Died in 1960
  • Man
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