Herbert Albert
Herbert Albert (born December 26, 1903 in Lausigk , † September 15, 1973 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German pianist and conductor .
Life
He studied in Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig. After training with Karl Muck in Hamburg and with Hermann Grabner and Robert Teichmüller in Leipzig, Albert first made his debut as a pianist, but quickly turned to the career of a conductor. From 1926 to 1934 he was successively Kapellmeister in Rudolstadt, Kaiserslautern and Wiesbaden. In 1934 he was appointed general music director in Wiesbaden, where he introduced the international music festivals. Then he moved to the Stuttgart State Opera as General Music Director in 1937 and to the Breslau Opera in 1944.
After the war he was Gewandhaus Kapellmeister in Leipzig from 1946 to 1948 . In 1947 he conducted the world premiere of the orchestral variations on a theme by Paganini by Boris Blacher . 1950–1952 he worked as general music director in Graz and from 1952–1963 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , whose new building was opened on January 13, 1957 with Weber's Freischütz under his direction.
From 1963 onwards, Herbert Albert, an excellent pianist, often performed the solo part in piano concerts and conducted the orchestra from the piano.
Web links
- Personnel file Bü 828 in inventory K 745 II (Reichsmusikkammer: Landesleitung Stuttgart) in the Ludwigsburg State Archives
Johann Adam Hiller (1781–1785) | Johann Gottfried Shift (1785–1810) | Johann Philipp Christian Schulz (1810–1827) | August Pohlenz (1827–1835) | Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1835–1847) | Ferdinand David (1841–1842) | Ferdinand Hiller (1843–1844) | Niels Wilhelm Gade (1844–1848) | Julius Rietz (1848–1860) | Ferdinand David (1852-1854) | Carl Reinecke (1860–1895) | Arthur Nikisch (1895–1922) | Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922–1928) | Bruno Walter (1929–1933) | Hermann Abendroth (1934–1945) | Herbert Albert (1946–1948) | Franz Konwitschny (1949–1962) | Václav Neumann (1964–1968) | Kurt Masur (1970–1996) | Herbert Blomstedt (1998-2005) | Riccardo Chailly (2005-2016) | Andris Nelsons (since 2018)
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| SURNAME | Albert, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and Kapellmeister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausick |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 1973 |
| Place of death | Bad Reichenhall |