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Ted was very helpful at a late stage with my Why Beethoven queries, casting fresh light and supplying previously unpublished detail about the first performance of the ninth symphony.
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