The Theosophical Path Volume 14; Illustrated Monthly (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...de Lange as early as 1882. Among others were Stephen Heller; the great violin virtuosi and composers Vieuxtemps and Leonard; Saint-Saens, Franch-homme, Lalo, Liibeck, Diemer, Svendsen, Madame Szarvady-Claus, Harold Bauer, and Godowsky. Founds Famous Professor de Lange founded the famous A Capella Chorus chorus of mixed voices, all members of which were trained singers, and which toured Europe under his conductorship for the purpose of making known the old Dutch and Flemish music of the middle ages. As a composer his works include symphonies, overtures, sacred songs, cantatas, choruses, an opera and a requiem, classic and dignified works, and well known in Europe outside of Holland. He was conductor of the Leyden branch of the Toonkunst, the leading musical organization of Holland, and was general secretary for Holland of the same. He was also a trustee of the Rubinstein International Foundation of Petrograd. For his extraordinary services to the art of music Professor de Lange received from her majesty, Queen Wilhelmina, the decoration of the Order of the Lion, the highest knightly order in Holland, and from Emperor Franz Joseph, in recognition of the same services, the Iron Crown, bestowed only upon a very limited number, and carrying with it the title of Baron. This title, however, Professor de Lange never used, preferring the simpler title which marked him as a teacher, the highest calling (he often declared) that he knew. For a period of thirty years, until he came to Point Loma to live, he was critic for the Nieuws vat. den Dag, the leading Amsterdam paper, and.Professor Godowsky, the great pianist, said recently, while visiting his old friend at the International Theosophical Headquarters, that any artist coming to Holland knew that his success or fai...