Alexander Albrecht

Alexander Albrecht ( born August 12, 1885 in Arad, Romania today; † July 30, June 30 or August 30, 1958 in Bratislava) was a Slovak composer and musician.

Life

Alexander Albrecht attended from 1895 to 1903 the Royal Catholic High School after his family in 1887 moved to Bratislava. His father was the high school teacher and later curator of the Municipal Museum in Bratislava Ján Albrecht. His mother Mary of Vaszary came from a Hungarian family of artists. So her uncle János painter and her cousin Gábor was a writer.

Albrecht first gave music lessons from his mother, and later by the organist Carl Forstner. In high school, he made friends with the four- year-older Béla Bartók, who also taught him. He soon played at the school worship services, as well as Bartók, or also the high school visiting Ernst von Dohnányi.

In the years 1904-1908 he studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, among others, as a student of Hans Koessler. At the same time he also studied Jus.

When he returned to Bratislava, he served as organist at St. Martin's. In Vienna he refined his game with Rudolf Dittrich. At the local music school ( Mestská hudobná škola ) he abrbeitete as a music teacher.

In 1918 he married Margaret of fishermen. Her son was Ján Albrecht, who was also a musician.

Appreciation

On former home in the Kapitulska in Bratislava a plaque to him and his son was placed.