Bernhard Lang

Bernhard Lang (b. 24 February 1957, Linz) is an Austrian composer of the experimental and avant-garde school, particularly advocating a style known as "repetition-perpetrator". Since 2003 he has been associate professor of composition at Graz University. [ [http://www.mica.at/composerdb/details/Composer/composer21923EN.asp?cat=composer&letter=l Profile] ]

Lang's music is characterised by repetition of short phrases. He frequently collaborates with artists form other genres including choreographers, electronic musicians, video artists and DJs. [ [http://www.kaaitheater.be/productie.jsp?productie=251&lang=en Description at Kaaitheater, Belgium] ]

He is particularly known for the provocatively titled opera "I Hate Mozart" [ [http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=4560 Review of opera] ] , with libretto by Michael Sturminger, composed for the Viennese "Mozart year" festival in 2006. "Das Theater der Wiederholungen", based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade and William S. Burroughs and choreographed by Xavier Le Roy, was premiered at the Bastille. His "Monadology II" was given its British premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in September 2008 [ [http://www.eif.co.uk/event/staatskapelle-dresden.html-0 Edinburgh International Festival] ] , broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Monadology uses a concept Lang calls "musical-cellular processing", which Lang says is derived from Leibniz’s Monadology. [ [http://www.musicweb-international.com/sandh/2008/Jul-Dec08/eif2808.htm MusicWeb International review] ]

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* [http://members.chello.at/bernhard.lang/ Lang's personal website]