For the businessman (his great-grandfather), see George Alexander Albrecht (businessman).
George Alexander Albrecht
Born
(1935-02-15)15 February 1935
Leuchtenburg, Prussia, Germany
Died
21 December 2021(2021-12-21) (aged 86)
Occupations
Conductor
Composer
Musicologist
Academic teacher
Organizations
Staatsoper Hannover
Semperoper
Nationaltheater Weimar
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar
Children
5, including Marc Albrecht
Parent
Carl Albrecht (father)
Relatives
Albrecht family
Awards
Lower Saxony Order of Merit
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
George Alexander Albrecht (15 February 1935 – 21 December 2021) was a German conductor and composer, who also worked as a musicologist and academic teacher. A prolific composer at a young age, he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) of the Staatsoper Hannover from 1965 for 30 years, where he led not only the major operas by Mozart and stageworks by Wagner, but contemporary composers, such as Aribert Reimann's Troades in 1987. He was GMD of the Nationaltheater Weimar from 1996, and taught at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Albrecht promoted the works of neglected composers such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hans Pfitzner, and Erwin Schulhoff.
In retirement, he focused on composing again. His fairy-tale opera Die Schneekönigin, after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", was premiered in Weimar in 2015. His Requiem für Syrien for soloists, choir and orchestra was first performed in Dresden in 2018 by the Dresdner Philharmonie, and his First Symphony "Sinfonia di due Mondi" for mezzo-soprano and large orchestra was premiered in 2019 by the Staatskapelle Weimar, conducted by his son Marc Albrecht.
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