Hans Lang (20 August 1897 – 17 July 1968) was a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. He studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in

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with

Joseph Haas Joseph Haas (19 March 1879 – 30 March 1960) was a German late romantic composer and music teacher. Biography He was born in Maihingen, near Nördlingen to teacher Alban Haas from his second marriage, being half-brother to the theologian a ...

from 1921 to 1926. In 1927 he joined the faculty at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in

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, where he taught for three years. In 1930 he became a teacher at the Konservatorium in

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and took the role of headmaster at the Städtische Berufsschule für Musiker in Munich from 1936. From 1940 to 1943 he taught at the Musikhochschule in Munich and then at the Pädagogische Hochschule in

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until 1958. His compositions mainly consist of works for choral works, and vocal art songs. He also wrote several works for the

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

which are still popular today.

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1897 births 1968 deaths 20th-century German composers {{Germany-composer-stub