Theodore Albrecht (born September 24, 1945) is a music historian who specializes in the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Albrecht was born in Jamestown, New York, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He is a 1967 graduate of St. Mary's University in San Antonio (B.M.E., music education) and of North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) in Denton, Texas in 1969 (M.M., musicology and music literature) and 1975 (Ph.D., musicology and history). [1]
After teaching at various colleges across the United States, Albrecht joined the faculty of Kent State University in 1992. [2] [3]
Albrecht's scholarly papers have been published in various music journals such as Journal of the Conductor's Guild and The Beethoven Journal, [3] [4] including evidence that the degree of Beethoven's hearing loss was not as absolute as previously believed. [4] [5] He is also responsible for the identification, to the satisfaction of most scholars, of the pseudonymous author of the text of Beethoven's song "Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel," a longstanding mystery. [6]
Albrecht has lectured before performances of various music ensembles, notably the Cleveland Orchestra and Opera Cleveland. [3]
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Volume 1: ISBN 978-0-80321-033-2; Volume 2: ISBN 978-0-80321-039-4; Volume 3: ISBN 978-0-80321-040-0 The Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio completed in 1811. It is commonly referred to as the Archduke Trio, because it was dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the youngest of twelve children of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. Rudolf was an amateur pianist and a patron, friend, and composition student of Beethoven. Beethoven dedicated about a dozen compositions to him.
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. His early period, during which he forged his craft, is typically considered to have lasted until 1802. From 1802 to around 1812, his middle period showed an individual development from the styles of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and is sometimes characterised as heroic. During this time, Beethoven began to grow increasingly deaf. In his late period, from 1812 to 1827, he extended his innovations in musical form and expression.
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Abendlied unterm gestirntem Himmel, WoO 150, is a song for high voice and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1820. The work is a setting of a poem believed to be by Otto Heinrich von Loeben, who wrote it under the pseudonym H. Goeble. Theodore Albrecht summarizes the message of the song thus: it "describes the soul, after the sun has set, contemplating the starry heavens, longing to return there, and finally rising up to the heavenly light. The earthly witness realizes that his pilgrimage below will not last long, and that he too will soon soar above to his heavenly reward before God's throne." Barry Cooper has called the song "one of the finest examples of Beethoven's combination of simplicity and profundity that is so characteristic of his late style."
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