Theodore Albrecht

Theodore Albrecht ( * September 24, 1945 in Jamestown, New York) is an American musicologist who is particularly concerned with the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Life

Albrecht studied at the St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas and at North Texas State University (now University of North Texas) in Denton, Texas and received his doctorate in 1975.

He is a professor at Kent State University.

Writings

  • Letters to Beethoven and other correspondence, translated and edited by Theodore Albrecht, 3 volumes, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1996

Papers

  • More than just Peanuts: evidence for December 16 as Beethoven 's birthday, in: The Beethoven Newsletter 3 (1988 ), pp. 49 and 60-63
  • The fortnight fallacy: a revised chronology for Beethoven 's " Christ on the Mount of Olives ", op 85, and Wielhorsky sketchbook, in: Journal of Musicological Research 11 (1991 ), pp. 263-284
  • Beethoven and Shakespeare's " Tempest ": new light on an old allusion, in Beethoven Forum 1 ( 1992), pp. 81-92
  • Beethoven 's So-Called body Quartet, Op. 130: A Case of Mistaken Identity, in: The Journal of Musicology 16 (1998 ), pp. 410-419
  • Thayer contra Marx: a warning from 1860; biography of edited reprint of Thayer's review of Marx 's Beethoven, in: The Beethoven Journal 14 (1999 ), pp. 2-8 ( Annotated Edition by Alexander Wheelock Thayer's review of Adolf Bernhard Marx: Ludwig van Beethoven published in The Atlantic monthly 1860)
  • Beethoven 's timpanist Ignaz Manker, in: Percussive Notes, No. 38 (August 2000), pp. 54-66
  • When Went went: The demise and posthumous activities of Viennese wind band leader Johann Went (1745-1801), in: Journal of Band Research, No. 36 ( Spring 2001 ), pp. 22-45
  • Franz Stadler, Stephan Fichtner and other Oboists at the Theater an der Wien falling on Beethoven 's ' heroic ' period, in: Double Reed, Vol 25, No. 2 (2002 ), pp. 93-106; revised German version in: Journal of the Society of Friends of the Viennese oboe, No. 18 (June 2003 ), pp. 3-12
  • Anton Grams: Beethoven 's Preferred Double Bassist in Bass World, No. 26 (October 2002 ), pp. 19-23
  • Beethoven 's 1814 ' green sheet ', in: International Musician: Official Journal of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, Vol 101, No. 1 ( January 2003), p 22
  • Benjamin Gebauer (ca. 1758-1846 ): The life and death of Beethoven 's ' copyist C', with speculation Concerning Joseph Arthofer, ca 1752-1807, in: Bonn Beethoven Studies, Volume 3 (2003 ), pp. 7 - 22
  • Benedict Fuchs, Franz iron, and Michael Fall: The Beethoven 's Eroica symphony in hornists at its first performances in Vienna, 1805-1809, in: The horn call, No. 34 ( October 2003), pp. 39-49
  • A case of mistaken gender: The bugler Camillo Bellonci (? 1781 - ), in: The Horn Call, No. 34 ( February 2004), pp. 107-108
  • First name unknown: Anton Schreiber, the Schuppanzigh quartet, and early performances of Beethoven 's string quartets, Op 59, in: The Beethoven Journal, Vol 19, No. 1 (Summer 2004), pp. 10-18
  • The musicians in Balthasar Wigand 's depiction of the performance of Haydn 's The Creation, Vienna, 27 March 1808 in: Music in Art, Vol 29, No. 1-2 ( 2004), pp. 123-133
  • The Teimer family and a revised dating for Beethoven 's trios for oboes and English horn, Op 87 and WoO 28, trans. by Josef Bednarik and Thomas Groeger, in: Journal of the Society of Friends of the Viennese oboe, No. 24 (December 2004), pp. 2-10
  • Anton thirty (ca. 1753/54-1820 ) Mozart 's and Beethoven 's magic flute, in: Words about Mozart: Essays in honor of Stanley Sadie, ed. by Dorothea Link, London: Boydell & Brewer 2005, pp. 179-192
  • Philipp Teimer, Beethoven, and the English horn in Vienna, 1793-1817, trans. by Josef Bednarik and Thomas Groeger, in: Journal of the Society of Friends of the Viennese oboe, No. 25 (March 2005 ), pp. 3-9
  • Henriette and Philipp Teimer: New biographical details of a musical family, trans. by Josef Bednarik and Thomas Groeger, in: Journal of the Society of Friends of the Vienna Oboe, No. 27 ( October 2005), pp. 6-7
  • Anton Schindler as destroyer and Forger of Beethoven 's Conversation Books: A Case for Decriminalization in: Music's Intellectual History: First Conference of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, ed. Zdravko Blažeković and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, New York 2009, pp. 169-181. http://www.rilm.org/historiography/talbrecht.pdf ( About Beethoven's conversation books and the charges against Schindler, he had destroyed the major part. According to the author, Schindler's statement that there had been a total " much more than a hundred " conversation books, had been misunderstood by Alexander Wheelock Thayer as " four hundred". )
  • Beethoven scholar
  • Americans
  • Born in 1945
  • Man
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