Langlé, Honoré (François Marie)
Langlé, Honoré (François Marie)
Langlé, Honoré (François Marie), French music theorist and composer; b. Monaco, 1741; d. Villiers-le-Bel, near Paris, Sept. 20, 1807. He studied in Naples at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini with Cafaro. In 1768 he went to Paris, becoming a singing teacher at the Ecole Royale de Chant et de Declamation in 1784. He then was a prof, of harmony and librarian at the Paris Cons. (1795–1802). He composed a number of operas, including Antiochus et Stra-tonice (Versailles, 1786) and Consonare, ou Les Fous par enchantement (Paris, March 8, 1791), as well as other vocal works. He ed. Mengozzi’s Méthode de chant du Conservatoire (1804; 2nd ed., c. 1815) and collaborated with Cherubini on his Méthode de chant.
Writings
(all publ. in Paris): Traité d’harmonie et de modulation (1793; 2nd ed., 1797); Traité de la basse sous le chant précédé de toutes les règles de la composition (c. 1798); Nouvelle méthode pour chiffrer les accords (1801); Traité de la fugue (1805).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire