Leopold Langer

Leopold Fyodorovich (Ferdinandovich) Langer (1802–1885) was a Russian composer, organist, and teacher of German origin. His output included sonatas, romances, and fantasies on popular melodies, and he also produced many arrangements of symphonic and chamber instrumental works by classical composers.

Langer received his musical education in Vienna, where he studied with Johann Nepomuk Hummel. From the early 1820s he lived in Moscow, where in the 1830s he became close to the Bakunin family and took part in their musical evenings, attended by Vasily Botkin and Vissarion Belinsky; he was also connected with the Stankevich circle.

In the 1840s and 1850s he worked as a church organist while also teaching piano at the Alexandrovsky Institute, and from 1869 to 1879 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Beyond music he was interested in homeopathy and admired the teachings of Christian Hahnemann; he was acquainted with Karl Bojanus. Langer died on 8 (20) February 1885 in Moscow.

His family included the composer and teacher Ferdinand Langer (1808–1870), his brother, and Eduard Langer (1835–1905), his son, who also became a musician.

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