Paul Henry Lang ( Eng. Paul Henry Lang ; August 28, 1901 , Budapest - September 21, 1991 , Lakeville , Connecticut ) is an American musicologist and music critic of Hungarian origin.
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He graduated from the Budapest Academy of Music ( 1922 ), where among his mentors were, in particular, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodai . For some time he played the bassoon in various Hungarian orchestras, then in 1924 he went to study musicology and literature, first at the University of Heidelberg and then in Paris . From 1929 he lived in the United States, from 1933 until his retirement in 1970, he taught at Columbia University . Among the students of Lang, there were a number of significant figures in the field of American musical criticism - in particular, Richard Taruskin .
For many years he was a music critic of the New York Herald Tribune (replacing Virgil Thomson in this role), from 1945 to 1973 . edited the magazine The Musical Quarterly . He published a number of books, of which the monograph “Music in Western Civilization” ( English Music in Western Civilization ; 1941 ) was the most famous.
In 1955 - 1958 headed the International Musicological Society .
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 101376839 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.