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4 unusual facts about Paul Henry Lang


Baroque music

In English the term acquired currency only in the 1940s, in the writings of Bukofzer and Paul Henry Lang.

Paul Henry Lang

In the 1924 Summer Olympics Lang participated as part of the French National rowing team.PAul is So cool it is unbelievable.

Sensitive style

P.H. Lang, Music in Western Civilization (1941), pp. 585ff.

The Musical Quarterly

Sonneck was succeeded by a number of editors, including Carl Engel (1930-1944), Gustave Reese (1944-45), Paul Henry Lang, who edited the journal for over 25 years, from 1945 to 1973, Joan Peyser (1977-84), Eric Salzman who served as editor from 1984 to 1991 and several others.


Barry S. Brook

Brook received his masters’ degree from Columbia University, where he studied with Paul Henry Lang, Erich Hertzmann (1902–1963), Hugh Ross, and Roger Sessions, in 1942; he received the doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1959.

Play of Daniel

A recorded 1958 performance by the group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and featuring boy choristers of the Church of the Transfiguration as satraps and soldiers, was released by Decca, with sleeve notes by Paul Henry Lang and Dom Rembert Weakland, O.S.B., who had discovered the text at the British Library.


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