Karl Franzevich Albrecht

Karl Albrecht Franzevich (Russian Карл Францевич Альбрехт; born August 27, 1807 in Poznan, † February 24, 1863 in Gatchina (Russian Гатчина ), 45 km from St. Petersburg, was a German - Russian composer.

Albrecht studied with Joseph Schnabel in Breslau and then worked from 1825 as a violinist in the theater in Breslau as a conductor in Dusseldorf. In 1838 he was appointed conductor of the Opera and the Philharmonic concerts in St. Petersburg. Since 1850 he was a singing teacher of the orphanage in Gatchina.

His son Konstantin Karlovich Albrecht (1836-1893) was a cellist and composer in Moscow.

From Albrecht, a fair, a ballet and three string quartets have survived. Other works listed as missing.