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ALBRECHTSBERGER, JOHANN GEORG (1736–2849) ,,, See also:Austrian musician, was See also:born at Kloster-See also:Neuburg, near See also:Vienna, on the 3rd of See also:February 1736. He studied musical See also:composition under the See also:court organist, See also:Mann, and became one of the most learned and skilful contrapuntists of his See also:age. After ,being employed as organist at Raab and Maria-Taferl, he was appointed in 1772 organist to the court of Vienna,' and in 1792 Kapellmeisler of St See also:Stephen's See also:cathedral. His fame as a theorist attracted. to him in the Austrian See also:capital a large; number of pupils, some of whom afterwards became eminent musicians. Among these were See also:Beethoven, See also:Hummel, See also:Moscheles and Josef Weigl (17:66–1846). Albrechtsberger died in Vienna on the 7th of See also:March 1809. , Pis published compositions consist of preludes, fugues and sonatas for the piano and See also:organ, See also:string quartets, &c.; but the greater proportion of his See also:works, vocal and instrumental, exists only in See also:manuscript. They are in the library of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Probably the most valuable service he rendered to See also:music was in his theoretical works. In, 1790 ,he published at See also:Leipzig a See also:treatise on composition, of which,a third edition appeared in 1821. A collection of his writings on See also:harmony, in three volumes, was published under the care of his See also:pupil Ignaz von Seyfried (1776–1841) in 1826. There is an See also:English version of this published by See also:Novello in 1855.

Beethoven knew his own needs when he put himself under Albrechtsberger on finding that See also:

Haydn was not thoroughly disposed for the trouble of training him; and though Albrechtsberger could see nothing in him, and warned his other pupils against" that See also:young See also:man who would never turn out anything ingood See also:style," he justified Beethoven's, confidence.

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