David Lang, composer
Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to …
Biography – David Lang
Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to …
Works – David Lang
reason to believe (2011) 18' Text by David Lang 3 voices (SSA) with orchestra 2+picc,2, 2, 2 / 4, 3, 2+btbn, 1 / harp, timp, 2 perc, strings Program Note Libretto rent music score preview More …
Recordings – David Lang
Featured Composer the sense of senses The Crossing (Donald Nally, conductor) 2025
Interviews – David Lang
Jun 11, 2013 · In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy …
News – David Lang
Jan 7, 2026 · The New York Philharmonic has awarded David Lang the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music — one of the world’s largest new-music prizes. In addition to a monetary award, …
Writings – David Lang
Sep 22, 2016 · There can be a lot of down time for a composer and a translator during theater rehearsals so Michael and I passed the time telling each other stories about books we should …
David Lang Wants to Be More Superficial
May 20, 2014 · In 1987, David Lang was a 30-year-old composer and doctoral student who, with his Yale buddies Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, founded Bang on a Can, a scruffy …
prisoner of the state - David Lang
Lang was inspired to write the piece by what he felt to be the unrealized potential in Fidelio’s narrative. With prisoner of the state, Lang seeks to bridge that gap, uniting the narrative and …
Film – David Lang
View the Film compositions by David Lang – a sub-set of the complete works catalog.