Previous posts for August 28th are here: Umberto Giordano; Ivor Gurney; Léon Theremin (2019) and Carolmannus Pachschmidt; Peter[von] Winter (2019)
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Paul Henry Lang (28 August 1901 – 21 September 1991) was a Hungarian-American musicologist and music critic.
The Ballad of a Legacy
When musicology was new,
And largely unaccepted,
Paul Henry Lang made his debut,
And did the unexpected, --
He was the first professor in
A newly-minted ology,
Engaging in the discipline
Without the least apology.
And as this academic field
Expanded its variety,
He joined with others and revealed
A scholarly Society.
And after that he looked around
For something else to do,
A something which he duly found
In editing MQ.
And through it all he taught and wrote,
(Provocative at times),
In scholarship that I would note
If this were not in rhymes.
Professor Lang has gone to dust,
But tenured academics
Still employ the cut and thrust
Of musical polemics.
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