LANG, Josephine
(1815–1880)> PIANIST · SINGER · TEACHER · COMPOSER
LANG, Josephine (Koestlin) German pianist, singer, teacher and composer. Munich, March 14, 1815; Tuebingen, December 2, 1880. The daughter of a Munich court violinist and a singer, Regina Hitzelberger, whom both Louis XVI and Napoleon had tried unsuccessfully to bring to Paris, she showed her musical talent at an early age. She learned to sing and to play the piano from her mother and later from Fraeulein Berlinghof. When she was 15, the 21-year-old Mendelssohn heard her play and sing her own…