Lang, Josephine (Caroline)

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Lang, Josephine (Caroline)

Lang, Josephine (Caroline), German composer; b. Munich, March 14, 1815; d. Tübingen, Dec. 2, 1880. She was the granddaughter of the soprano Sabina (née Renk) Hitzelberger and the daughter of the soprano Regina Hitzelberger-Lang (b. Würzburg, Feb. 15, 1788; d. Munich, May 10, 1827) and the court music director Theobald Lang (1783–1839). She studied with her mother and also took lessons in theory with Mendelssohn. She composed and publ. a considerable number of competent lieder in an amiably songful, Germanically Romantic vein, in addition to some very playable piano pieces. She was married to the lawyer and music theorist Christian R. Kostlin (1813–56), who sometimes wrote under the nom de plume C. Reinhold.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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