David Lang

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Lang
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jan 8, 1957(1957-01-08)
Age	67
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

David Lang Biography

David Lang is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on January 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer for 2008’s “The Little Match Girl Passion.” His concert pieces, which showcased eclectic titles such as “Eating Living Monkeys,” have been described as totalist, and he contributed to the famous Requiem for a Dream soundtrack.

His 1999 opera “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field” was based on one of Ambrose Bierce‘s short stories.

Lang was born in Los Angeles, California. After completing his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, he went to the University of Iowa; he says, “There was a teacher in composition at the University of Iowa named Martin Jenni, and he had come to Stanford as a leave replacement to teach for a semester. And I just thought he was amazing. He knew a lot of stuff that I’d never heard of before. So when I thought about grad school, I went to Iowa. I was happy I did. It was really a kind of golden age. I really loved it.” Lang went on to earn a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Yale University in 1989. In addition to Jenni, his teachers have included Henri Lazarof, Lou Harrison, Richard Hervig, Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in

1987. In 2008 he joined the Yale School of Music composition faculty.

Lang’s one-act chamber opera for solo baritone is based on Thomas Bernhard’s novel, The Loser. Lang first read Bernhard’s novel in 1998 and immediately sensed it was something he wanted to set to music. Lang served as composer, librettist and director of the loser. Produced by Bang on a Can, the loser opened the 2016 BAM Next Wave Festival. Its unusual staging placed the singer Rod Gilfry on a platform above the orchestra seating and at eye level with the theater’s balcony. The only other person visible was pianist Conrad Tao, on a platform far behind Gilfry. A small ensemble was heard offstage. The orchestra seating was removed for the production. Lang and the loser were awarded the 2016 Richard B. Fisher Next Wave Award.

He fathered three children with his wife Suzanne Bocanegra.

David Lang Net Worth

David Lang is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Lang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Yale University. He was trained by such notables as Henri Lazarof, Lou Harrison, Richard Hervig, Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick.

He was named 2013 Composer of the Year by Musical America.

David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance. He was nominated for an Academy Award for “Simple Song #3” from the film Youth.

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A piece with multiple choruses and dance, battle hymns was first performed in Philadelphia in 2009 by the Mendelssohn Club and the Leah Stein Dance Company. Its U.S. west coast premiere was directed by Robert Geary and performed by the San Francisco Choral Society, Volti, the Piedmont Children’s Choir, and the Leah Stein Dance Company in April 2013 at the Kezar Pavilion. In May 2014, the Collegiate Chorale and the Manhattan Girls Chorus performed battle hymns at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. In 2015, the Shenandoah Chorus (Shenandoah University) performed ‘battle hymns’ at an on-campus concert.

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Lang composed this song cycle – a commission from Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts, premiered at both in late January, 2012 – as a companion piece to the little match girl passion. In that work, death was an implied character; in this follow-up song cycle, death is personified. For the texts sung by the character “Death,” Lang turned to the songs of Franz Schubert, from which he made his own translations into English. The part of Death was sung by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond; the instrumentalists included Bryce Dessner of The National (band) on guitar, Nico Muhly on piano, and Owen Pallett on violin and voice. National Public Radio chose the commercial recording as one of its ten favorite classical albums of 2013.

What is David Lang known for?

Lang is a Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music and is Artist in Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can. His music is published by Red Poppy Music and G.

Where was David Lang born?

Los Angeles, CA

When was David Lang born?

January 8, 1957 (age 65 years)