David Lang
Sign in to saveAmerican politician, Confederate States Army officer during the Civil War (1838-1917)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Orchids of Britain
- Coaching Neurodivergent Minds
- THE WILDFLOWER FINDER'S CALENDAR.
- Poems for Life's Road
- Historians of Scotland
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- China
- Active from
- 1982-06-14
chinese pianistclassicalpianistpiano
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 134,664
- Total plays
- 644,082
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contemporary classicalminimalismneoclassicalexperimentalinstrumental
David Lang (born 8 January 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987. His first recognition came from the BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards in 1980 and 1981. He was a major contributor to the string quartet music, performed by Kronos Quartet, in the film Requiem for a Dream (2000). In 1999 he collaborated with composers Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon <a href="https://
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Lang
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Camden County
- Place of death
- Tallahassee
- Position held
- adjutant general
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- proslavery
- Conflict
- American Civil War
- Military branch
- Confederate States Army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- MG Lang.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1838-05-09
- date of death
- 1917-12-13
- name in native language
- David Lang
- Commons category
- David Lang
- has characteristic
- anti-Irish sentiment
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