A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lange

LANGE, a family intimately connected with Mozart, inasmuch as his wife's sister, Aloysia Weber, in 1780 married the famous Joseph Lange, an actor, who held the same rank in Germany that Garrick did in England and Lekain in France. Mozart's marriage to her younger sister, Constanz, took place Aug. 4, 1782. Lange was born at Wurzburg, 1751, and died at Vienna in 1827. Aloysia was a very great singer; her voice wanted power, but was said to be 'the sweetest ever heard' (Jahn, ii. 18). Its compass was extraordinary, from B below the stave to A on the sixth space above it; as may be seen from the songs which Mozart wrote for her—the part of 'the Queen of Night' in the Zauberflöte, and several detached bravura airs [App. p.696 "refer to vol. iv. p.429b."]. She died in 1830. Mozart was for a time violently in love with her. [Weber.]

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