Láng István
Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1933
1 March 1933 Budapest - 23 October 2023
He studied composing at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music as pupil of János Viski and Ferenc Szabó between 1950 and 1958.
From 1957 to 1960 he worked as music teacher assistant at the Theater and Film Academy, and between 1966 and 1984 he was music consultant at the State Puppet Theater. In 1961 he won a prize with his composition Concerto per archi at the composers' contest in Ludwigshafen. Since 1973 he’s been lecturer, reader, and then university professor at the chamber music department of the Music Academy. Between 1970 and 1990 he was member and president of the jury of various international music contests (for horn, trumpet, brass wind chamber music, oboe, composing and choir). As guest performer he held lectures at following universities: University of Colorado (1973), CNM Mexico City (1985, 1987) and New Mexico State University (1988).
From 1978 to 1990 he was secretary general of the Association of Hungarian Musicians. Between 1984 and 1988 he was member of the Executive Board of the New Music International Association (ISCM). In 1958 he was the first who wrote about the importance of the setting-up of an electronic music studio. Since 1974 he’s been constantly taking part in the work of the HEAR Studio with recorded and live electronic music compositions. The oeuvre of the artist, who is equally active as teacher and as composer, is versatile and varied: it ranges from the opera, the symphonic and chamber music all the way to the electro-acoustic music. His style can be characterized by strong affinity towards the theater, his dramaturgic sense shows even in his most abstract instrumental pieces.
As admission of his activity as composer he was awarded with the Erkel Prize (1968, 1975), the title Merited Artist (1985), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1994), the Artisjus Prize (2005) and the Middle Cross of Merit of Order of the Hungarian Republic (2009).
He died at the age of 90 on the 23rd of October, 2023.
He studied composing at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music as pupil of János Viski and Ferenc Szabó between 1950 and 1958.
From 1957 to 1960 he worked as music teacher assistant at the Theater and Film Academy, and between 1966 and 1984 he was music consultant at the State Puppet Theater. In 1961 he won a prize with his composition Concerto per archi at the composers' contest in Ludwigshafen. Since 1973 he’s been lecturer, reader, and then university professor at the chamber music department of the Music Academy. Between 1970 and 1990 he was member and president of the jury of various international music contests (for horn, trumpet, brass wind chamber music, oboe, composing and choir). As guest performer he held lectures at following universities: University of Colorado (1973), CNM Mexico City (1985, 1987) and New Mexico State University (1988).
From 1978 to 1990 he was secretary general of the Association of Hungarian Musicians. Between 1984 and 1988 he was member of the Executive Board of the New Music International Association (ISCM). In 1958 he was the first who wrote about the importance of the setting-up of an electronic music studio. Since 1974 he’s been constantly taking part in the work of the HEAR Studio with recorded and live electronic music compositions. The oeuvre of the artist, who is equally active as teacher and as composer, is versatile and varied: it ranges from the opera, the symphonic and chamber music all the way to the electro-acoustic music. His style can be characterized by strong affinity towards the theater, his dramaturgic sense shows even in his most abstract instrumental pieces.
As admission of his activity as composer he was awarded with the Erkel Prize (1968, 1975), the title Merited Artist (1985), the Bartók-Pásztory Award (1994), the Artisjus Prize (2005) and the Middle Cross of Merit of Order of the Hungarian Republic (2009).
He died at the age of 90 on the 23rd of October, 2023.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "Interrupted Processes" | Electroacoustic music | 2007 |
| 3 Winzigkeiten / 3 Short Drafts | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Four for Piano Four Hands | Chamber Music | 2016 |
| 5 Studi breve / 5 Short Pieces | Instrumental solo | 1991 |
| 5 Bagatelles | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| 7 studi / 7 Studies | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| The Great Jeweler | Music for the theater | 1961 |
| The Paul Street Boys | Music for the theater | 1963 |
| The Magic Firetool | Incidental music | 1962 |
| The Clerk of Debrecen | Music for the theater | 1957 |
| The Tree | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2019 |
| The Black Jar | Music for the theater | 1956 |
| The Coward | Opera | 1967 |
| The Third Version | Instrumental solo | 1996 |
| Bells of the Crater | Tape music | 2001 |
| The Great Dramatist | Opera | 1960 |
| The Silent Masters Speak | Film music | 1962 |
| Inez de Portugal | Music for the theater | 1966 |
| The Barber of Seville | Music for the theater | 1958 |
| Days of the Leap-month | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| The Dragon | Incidental music | 1967 |
| Borken Off Paragraphs | Symphony orchestra | 2003 |
| About 6 Minutes | Instrumental solo | 1985 |
| Ad Nominem Mahler | Chamber orchestra | 2006 |
| Adagio | String orchestra | 2004 |
| Affetti | Chamber Music | 1986 |
| Nightfall | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Amadeus mit Igor in Osmindorf bei Basel | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Fathers School | Music for the theater | 1964 |
| In Golden Net | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1963 |
| Portrait from Inside | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1970 |
| Aria di coloratura | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| Car Showroom | Music for radio drama | 0 |
| The 1002. Night | Music for the theater | 1958 |
| Secret of the Golden Flag | Music for radio drama | 1958 |
| The Backward West | Film music | 1970 |
| The First Year | Film music | 1966 |
| The Last Phrases - Remembering the Poem by Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) | Ensemble | 2009 |
| The New God | Male choir | 0 |
| To Bacchus | Choir with accompaniment | 1960 |
| Waiting for the Barbarians (Chamber Cantata No. 4) | Live and tape music | 2010 |
| Surrounded | Opera | 1989 |
| Bernarda Alba’s House | Opera | 1959 |
| Bartholomew Fair | Music for the theater | 1975 |
| For Vinedrinker | Mixed choir | 1954 |
| Broken Consort | Chamber Music | 2007 |
| Concerto for Viola | Concerto | 1957 |
| Budapest Liszt Ferenc Square | Tape music | 2000 |
| Enchanting | Mixed choir | 1959 |
| C.A.G.E. Notes | Instrumental solo | 1992 |
| Canto | Instrumental solo | 1994 |
| Capriccio metronomico | Electroacoustic music | 1998 |
| Cassazione | Chamber Music | 1971 |
| Cello Sms | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| ШАГАЛ Flies Away over His Sleeping ВИТЕБСК | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Cimbiofonia | Concerto | 2012 |
| Cimbiosis | Concerto | 1991 |
| Close Connections | Orchestral work | 2014 |
| ConcerDUOtante | Concerto | 2010 |
| Concertino | Electroacoustic music | 0 |
| Concertino per silofono | Concerto | 1961 |
| Concerto bucolico | Concerto | 1971 |
| Concerto per archi / Concerto for Strings | String orchestra | 1960 |
| Concitato | Instrumental solo | 2010 |
| Crescendo | Incidental music | 1975 |
| Sonata for Cello and Piano | Chamber Music | 1993 |
| Sonata for Violoncello | Instrumental solo | 1960 |
| Silence | Chamber Music | 2016 |
| Starfighters | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1971 |
| Knotes on the Line | Chamber Music | 1993 |
| Song About the Hyenas of the War | Choir a cappella | 1962 |
| Die letzten Stätze | Chamber Music | 2010 |
| The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden | Music for radio drama | 1962 |
| Dramma breve | Instrumental solo | 1970 |
| Duo per flauti | Chamber Music | 1963 |
| Duo for Two Cimbaloms | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Egloga | Symphony orchestra | 1976 |
| Egyptian Story | Film music | 1962 |
| Constellations | Chamber Music | 1975 |
| Prelude to the Unwritten Poem by Ottó Orbán | Chamber Music | 2019 |
| Nightfall | Live and tape music | 1996 |
| Farthings for Fafló and Flófa | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Faust | Music for the theater | 1957 |
| Exclamations | Live and tape music | 2011 |
| Surface-Metamorphosis | Electroacoustic music | 1974 |
| Supplication | Choir a cappella | 1969 |
| Frammento grazioso (Study for orchestra) | Symphony orchestra | 1968 |
| Fluteline | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Gestures | Instrumental solo | 2011 |
| Mourning-Song | Choir a cappella | 1961 |
| Diamaond in the Dust of Earth | Choir and orchestra | 2004 |
| Steam | Film music | 1970 |
| If You Tell It, I´ll Deny it | Music for the theater | 1967 |
| Aubade and Round-Dance | Choir a cappella | 1971 |
| From Dawn to Noon | Film music | 1964 |
| My Thirty-two Names | Film music | 1972 |
| Harphonia | Instrumental solo | 1990 |
| Harpsounds | Instrumental solo | 2021 |
| Resemblances | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Sonata for Violin and Piano | Chamber Music | 1990 |
| Concerto for Violin | Concerto | 1977 |
| Hyperbola | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1963 |
| Waves No. 1 | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1975 |
| Wawes No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1976 |
| Waves No. 3 | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Waves No. 4 | Chamber Music | 2006 |
| Three Songs on Poems by Attila József | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1956 |
| Three Chinese Epigrams | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1958 |
| Three Microludes | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Three Sentences from the Romeo and Juliet | String orchestra | 1970 |
| Three Orchestral Songs | Symphony orchestra | 1985 |
| Seven Haiku | Instrumental solo | 1999 |
| 7 Short Pieces for Percussions and Piano | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Everyday Ballad | Film music | 1969 |
| Wind Quintet No. 1, Op. 2 | Chamber Music | 1964 |
| String Quartett No. 1 | Chamber Music | 1961 |
| Wind Quintet No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1965 |
| Symphony No. 2 | Symphony orchestra | 1974 |
| String Quartett No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1966 |
| Wind Quintet No. 3 | Chamber Music | 1975 |
| Symphony No. 3 (Episodi) | Symphony orchestra | 1982 |
| String Quartet No. 3 | Chamber Music | 1978 |
| Symphony No. 4 | Symphony orchestra | 1983 |
| String Quartet No. 4 (Version for String Orchestra) | String orchestra | 0 |
| Improvization for Cimbalom | Instrumental solo | 1973 |
| Impulsioni | Concerto | 1969 |
| In Memoriam N.N. | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 0 |
| Inquieto | Electroacoustic music | 2005 |
| Intarsia Around a Bartók Theme | Chamber Music | 1989 |
| Intermezzi | Instrumental solo | 1972 |
| Interpolations | Instrumental solo | 1988 |
| Iocasté (Chamber Cantata No. 2) | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1979 |
| Ist es möglich ohne B-A-C-H? | Instrumental solo | 2000 |
| O, What Orphan Is This Forest | Female choir | 1963 |
| Scene Without Text No. 2 | Incidental music | 1979 |
| Scene String | String orchestra | 2016 |
| Come May | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1963 |
| Toward our Future | Choir with accompaniment | 1960 |
| Mystery at the Duck Nest | Incidental music | 1966 |
| Chamber Cantata | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1962 |
| Christmas Carol | Film music | 1964 |
| Double Concerto | Concerto | 1980 |
| Day-off | Choral music | 1963 |
| Little Suite | Chamber Music | 2019 |
| Crying Silence | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1969 |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Music for the theater | 1960 |
| The Forced Marriage | Music for the theater | 1966 |
| Two Children´s Choruses on the Poems by Sándor Weöres | Children's choir | 1963 |
| Two Preludes for a Postlude | Chamber Music | 1977 |
| King Louis Divorces | Music for the theater | 1957 |
| Laudate Hominem | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 1968 |
| Floatation | Electroacoustic music | 1997 |
| Arrested | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1968 |
| Flies | Music for the theater | 1966 |
| Courage Test | Music for radio drama | 1960 |
| Lento | Chamber Music | 1983 |
| Butterfly-Song | Mixed choir | 1961 |
| Libero | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| Line Before Background | Live and tape music | 2019 |
| Linea melodica | Instrumental solo | 1985 |
| Lorca’s Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1961 |
| Concatenations | Instrumental solo | 1976 |
| Flaming Neon | Choir a cappella | 1962 |
| Threbbed Threats | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Mario and the Magician | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1962 |
| Micropezzo | Instrumental solo | 2016 |
| Mirandolina | Music for the theater | 1961 |
| Sentences | Choir a cappella | 1973 |
| Sentences (5th Chamber-Cantata) | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2014 |
| Monodia | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1965 |
| Monologue for Horn | Instrumental solo | 1974 |
| Movimento | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Movimento | Chamber Music | 2001 |
| Musica funebre | Symphony orchestra | 1969 |
| So Long As You Breath | Male choir | 1974 |
| Moses | Music for the theater | 1966 |
| I Won´t Wait Until Tomorrow... | Film music | 1967 |
| No Man Is an Iland, Intire of It Selfe | Electroacoustic music | 2001 |
| Summer and Smoke | Music for the theater | 1965 |
| Wedding-song | Choir a cappella | 1965 |
| Off and On | Electroacoustic music | 1995 |
| Off and On (Second version) | Electroacoustic music | 1996 |
| Memory of October | Choir with accompaniment | 1966 |
| Organissimo | Instrumental solo | 1982 |
| Concerto for Organ | Concerto | 1987 |
| Ottorgano | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Zany | Film music | 1957 |
| Master Pathelin | Opera | 1958 |
| Perpetuum mobile II. | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Pezzo strepitoso | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Prelude, 3 Mobils and Postlude | Chamber Music | 1980 |
| Preludio | Instrumental solo | 1997 |
| Quartetto d´archi No. 2 / String Quartett No. 2 | Chamber Music | 1966 |
| Traceries | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| Alert | Film music | 1961 |
| Ritornelli | Chamber Music | 1963 |
| Rondino | Chamber Music | 1971 |
| Miss Rosina | Music for the theater | 1964 |
| Rubin Flower | Film music | 1968 |
| Rhymes | Ensemble | 1972 |
| Sassonanti | Instrumental solo | 2000 |
| Scapin the Schemer | Music for the theater | 1966 |
| Scherzo strepitoso | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Sempre in tensione | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Sensa allegro | Instrumental solo | 2006 |
| Sinfonietta | Symphony orchestra | 2009 |
| The Seagull | Music for the theater | 1966 |
| Soliloquium | Instrumental solo | 1982 |
| Staccatissimi | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Staccatissimi | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Suonitrascolori No. 1 | Tape music | 2006 |
| Suonitrascolori No. 2 | Tape music | 2006 |
| Szadkó | Music for radio drama | 1957 |
| Measure for Measure | Music for the theater | 1972 |
| Serenade | Mixed choir | 1961 |
| Island | Music for the theater | 1968 |
| Close Connections | Symphony orchestra | 2013 |
| Chair History | Incidental music | 1975 |
| Theater on the Back of the Whale | Music for the theater | 1973 |
| Solo | Instrumental solo | 1975 |
| Meeting With a Young Man | Electroacoustic music | 1997 |
| Corn-Shell | Mixed choir | 1963 |
| Tenvio Duo | Chamber Music | 0 |
| The Bores | Music for the theater | 1965 |
| Tre schizzi / Three Sketches | Instrumental solo | 1988 |
| Trio | Chamber Music | 1959 |
| Duo for Trumpets | Chamber Music | 1972 |
| With Dance and Song | Mixed choir | 1964 |
| Dance-Song | Mixed choir | 1964 |
| Fragments | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1972 |
| Cicada | Film music | 1963 |
| Mirror | Film music | 1967 |
| Fire | Choir a cappella | 1974 |
| Frank V | Music for radio drama | 1963 |
| Symphony No. 5 | Symphony orchestra | 1992 |
| Symphony No. 6 | String orchestra | 1994 |
| Symphony No. 7 | Solo voice(s) with solo instr. and orch. | 1997 |
| Symphony No. 7 - On the Poem by Dezső Kosztolányi | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1997 |
| YWM 1973 | Choir with accompaniment | 1973 |
| Someone is Ringing | Film music | 1968 |
| Variazioni e Allegro (Symphony No. 1) | Symphony orchestra | 1961 |
| Variazioni senza tema | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Veemenza Assai | Chamber Music | 2004 |
| Retablos di Romeo y Julia | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1969 |
| Wax Magic | Film music | 1968 |
| Vibrating Object on Parabola Line | Electroacoustic music | 2003 |
| Flashes | Instrumental solo | 1973 |
| Glances Back | Instrumental solo | 2000 |
| Viviofa | Chamber Music | 1995 |
| Wexed Streams | Live and tape music | 2008 |
| Music 2-4-3 | Ensemble | 1979 |
| Zénóphonia | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| poco a poco dim. | Instrumental solo | 1977 |
| Dream About the Theatre | Opera | 1981 |
| At the Feast of April | Children's choir | 1966 |
| Streams | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| Chaffing | Mixed choir | 1961 |
| Arcs in Space | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Arcs in Space No. 2 | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Arcs in Space No. 3 | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Five Epigrams | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1963 |
| Five Short Pieces | Chamber Music | 1975 |
| Wake up for a New Joy | Choir with accompaniment | 1962 |
| Autumn Nightfall | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1958 |