Klaus Lang

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{{Infobox person

| name = Klaus Lang

| image = Klaus Lang, October 2019.jpg

| caption = Lang in 2019

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|04|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Graz

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| education =

| occupation = {{plainlist|

• Composer
• Concert organist
• Improviser
• Academic teacher.

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| organization = University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz

| awards = Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Preis

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Klaus Lang (born 26 April 1971 in Graz) is an Austrian composer, concert organist, improviser, 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 in 2008.[https://archive.today/20120906012300/http://www.muenchenerbiennale.de/standard/en/archive/2008/ Archive notes to 2008 biennale], Munich Biennale.

In 2006, Lang was appointed Professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. In 2010 he was awarded the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Preis of the Steiermark.[http://www.kug.ac.at/nc/news-veranstaltungen/news/kug-aktuell/details/backto/8/article/andrezj-dobrowolski-preis-2010-geht-an-klaus-lang.html Andrezj-Dobrowolski-Preis 2010 geht an Klaus Lang] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306140857/http://www.kug.ac.at/nc/news-veranstaltungen/news/kug-aktuell/details/backto/8/article/andrezj-dobrowolski-preis-2010-geht-an-klaus-lang.html |date=6 March 2016 }} Kunstuniversität Graz, 19 May 2010

He was commissioned by Katharina Wagner to write an opera, The Vanished Wedding, to be premiered at Bayreuth, although not at the Festspielhaus and not part of the Bayreuth Festival. It is claimed to be the first world premiere at Bayreuth since the premiere of Wagner's Parsifal in 1882.[https://slippedisc.com/2018/05/bayreuth-announces-its-first-opera-premiere-since-parsifal/ Slipped Disc, 6 May 2018, BAYREUTH ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST OPERA PREMIERE SINCE PARSIFAL]. Retrieved 17 October 2018 The Vanished Wedding was premiered at the Reichshof, a disused Bayreuth cinema, on 23 July 2018, the day before the start of the 2018 Bayreuth Festival.[https://vaaju.com/austriaeng/a-new-lohengrin-opens-the-bayreuth-festival-today/ Vaaju]. Retrieved 17 October 2018