We have been notified of the death of Theodore Albrecht, editor and translator of Beethoven’s notebooks and professor at Kent State University.
He was 79.
Ted was very helpful at a late stage with my Why Beethoven queries, casting fresh light and supplying previously unpublished detail about the first performance of the ninth symphony.
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Top-selling pianist Vikingur Ólafsson will premiere John Adams’s new piano concerto with the San Francisco Symphony on January 16, with repeats on two successive nights. The concerto is titled After the Fall, and look what […]
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Ginette DePriest has published a memoir of her late husband James DePreist. The post The maestro who overcame polio (and color prejudice) appeared first on Slippedisc.
