Klaus Lang is an Austrian

Austrians

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 composer, concert organist and academic teacher.

His opera Die Architektur des Regens (The Architecture of Rain) after the Noh play Shiga by Zeami was premiered at the Munich Biennale

Munich Biennale

The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...

 in 2008.

In 2006 Lang was appointed Professor of composition at the Kunstuniversität Graz. In 2010 he was awarded the Andrezj-Dobrowolski-Preis of the Steiermark.

External links

• Klaus Lang website
• Recent and future performances of Lang's operas from Operabase
  Operabase
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