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Iii. Menuet by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Artist Biography For Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger 1736-1809 Was An Austrian Music Theorist Organist And Composer. Born In Klosterneuburg On The 3rd February 1736 He Originally Studied Music At Melk Abbey And Philosophy At A Benedictine Seminary In Vienna And Became One Of The Most Learned And Skillful Contrapuntists Of His Age. Albrechtsberger's Earliest Classmates Included Michael Haydn And Franz Joseph Aumann. After Being Employed As Organist At Raab In 1755 And Maria Taferl In 1757 He Was Appointed Thurnermeister Back At Melk Abbey. In 1772 He Was Appointed Organist To The Court Of Vienna And In 1792 Kapellmeister Of St Stephen's Cathedral. His Fame As A Theorist Attracted To Him In The Austrian Capital A Large Number Of Pupils Some Of Whom Afterwards Became Eminent Musicians. Among These Were Johann Nepomuk Hummel Ignaz Moscheles Josef Weigl Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper De Ferguson Antonio Casimir Cartellieri Ludwig Van Beethoven And Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. Beethoven Had Arrived In Vienna In 1792 To Study With Joseph Haydn But Quickly Became Infuriated When His Work Was Not Being Given Attention Or Corrected. Haydn Recommended His Friend Albrechtsberger With Whom Beethoven Then Studied Harmony And Counterpoint. His Published Compositions Consist Of Preludes Fugues And Sonatas For The Piano And Organ String Quartets Etc. But The Greater Proportion Of His Works Vocal And Instrumental Exist Only In Manuscript Held In The Library Of The Vienna Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde. Around 1765 He Wrote At Least Seven Concerti For Jew's Harp And Strings Three Survive In The Hungarian National Library In Budapest . They Are Pleasant Well Written Works In The Galant Style. Probably The Most Valuable Service He Rendered To Music Was In His Theoretical Works. In 1790 He Published At Leipzig A Treatise On Composition Of Which A Third Edition Appeared In 1821. A Collection Of His Writings On Harmony In Three Volumes Was Published Under The Care Of His Pupil Ignaz Von Seyfried 1776–1841 In 1826. An English Version Of This Was Published By Novello In 1855. His Compositional Style Derives From Johann Joseph Fux's Counterpoint Who Was Kapellmeister At St Stephen's Cathedral 1713-1741 A Position That Albrechtsberger Would Hold Fifty-Two Years Later. One Of His Most Notable Works Is His Concerto For Alto Trombone And Orchestra In B Flat Major. As The Trombone Has Few Works Dating Back To The Classical Period His Concerto Is Often Highlighted By The Trombone Community. Albrechtsberger Died In Vienna On The 7th March 1809.

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