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1ALBRECHT
3(1759), and exercises for pianoforte (1763).—Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 321; Fétis; Mendel.
5ALBRECHT, JOHANN MATTHÄUS, born at Osterbehringen, near Gotha, May 1, 1701, died at Frankfort in 1769. Church composer and renowned organist, pupil of Kapellmeister Witt at Gotha; visited South Germany and France to hear the best organists, and soon ranked with them. He became organist at St. Catherine's, Frankfort, in 1724, and at the Metropolitan Church of the Barefooted Friars in 1726. He was distinguished also as a didactic writer. Works: Cantatas for the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost (1758); Passion according to the Evangelists (Mühlhausen, 1759); Musikalische Aufmunterung für Anfänger des Klaviers (Augsburg, 1763); Musikalische Aufmunterung in kleinen Klavierstücken und Oden (Berlin, 1763); Concertos for pianoforte (unpublished).—Mendel; Schilling.
7ALBRECHTSBERGER, JOHANN GEORG, born at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, Feb. 3, 1736, died in Vienna, March 7, 1809. Composer of church and chamber music, contrapuntist, organist of the first rank, and one of the most eminent theoreticians and teachers of music. He was first instructed in his native place by the parson Leopold Pittner, afterwards pupil in Vienna of the court organist Mann. Having pursued his educational studies at the Benedictine Abbey of Mölk, and at the Jesuits' Seminary in Vienna, where Michael Haydn was his fellow student, he became an organist, first at Raab, Hungary, then at Maria-Taferl, finally at Mölk, where he remained twelve years, and, under the choir director Kimmerling, studied the classical works of Caldara, Pergolesi, Graun, Hasse, Handel, Bach, and others.
9After 1765 he taught a few years in the family of a nobleman in Silesia, then in Vienna, earning a scanty living, but soon attracting attention by his organ playing, which procured for him the position as Regens chori at the Carmelites. In 1772 he was appointed court organist, and in 1792 Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral. Member of Vienna Academy, 1772, of Stockholm Academy, 1798. As a teacher of counterpoint and composition he was considered the first of his day, and he numbered among his pupils most of the prominent musicians of the following generation, notably Beethoven (in 1794–95), Hummel, Weigl, and Johann Fuss. He left 261 works, consisting of 43 masses, 43 graduales, 34 offertories, vespers, litanies, psalms, hymns, motets, etc.; 6 oratorios (Die Pilgrime auf Golgotha, Die Auffindung des Kreuzes, Geburt Christi, Passion), 4 Te Deums, 4 symphonies, a great deal of chamber music, besides fugues and preludes for organ and pianoforte; of all these only 27, comprising chamber and organ music, were printed. The bulk of his manuscript bequest, 244 in number, was acquired by Prince Nikolaus Esterházy. A complete edition of his theoretical writings was published by his pupil, Ignatz von Seyfried: J. G. Albrechtsberger's Sämtliche Schriften über Generalbass, Harmonie und Tonsetzkunst, etc. (Vienna, Strauss, 1837), containing also a biography and list of his works.—Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 323; Allg. mus. Zeitg., xi. 445; xxxi. 443; Fétis; Mendel; Schilling.
11ALBRICI, VINCENZO, born in Rome, June 26, 1631, died in Prague in 1696. About 1660 he was maestro di cappella to Queen Christina of Sweden at Stralsund, in 1664 to the Elector of Saxony at Dresden, in 1680 organist of St. Thomas' Church at Leipsic, and in 1682 director of music at St. Augustine's, Prague. His highly es-
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