"Prof. Albrecht Dies At 87:
Maximilian Albrecht, composer and retired music director at Mount Saviour Monastery, whose career embraced opera and symphony conducting in Europe, defeating Nazis in a German court, and becoming the hero of a biographical radio drama broadcast around the world, has died at 87. He died at Portsmouth, R.I., where he had lived since 1969. Word of his death was received here from his wife, who as Ludwiga Kuckuck, had sung at the Vienna and Salzburg operas when Albrecht conducted there. Burial was in the cemetery of the Portsmouth Abbey. Coming to the United States in 1951 at the urging of his friends the von Trapps (the "Trapp Family Singers," the subject of the motion picture "The Sound of Music"), Prof. Albrecht headed the music department at Portsmouth Priory School. In 1962 he transferred to Mount Saviour as Director of Vocal Music, while Mrs. Albrecht managed St. Gertrude's Guest House there. A highlight in the Albrecht career in America came in 1965 when his hour-long "Requiem" was premiered at New York's famous Town Hall by the Amor Artis Chorale and Orchestra. It won ovations from audiences and New York critics. Another highlight was in 1971 when the Ave Maria Hour broadcast a 30-minute radio drama based on his life. It was heard over 300 domestic stations as well as over the worldwide Armed Forces Network. Born Feb. 16, 1887, in Dachwig, Germany, Prof. Albrecht was educated at the Universities of Jena and Berlin, the Berlin State Academy of Music and the Leipzig Royal Conservatory. He conducted opera and oratorio at Freiburg and Stetin, and guest-conducted the symphony orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Basel and Palatinate, as well as major broadcasting orchestras. At the height of his career in 1933 he was dismissed by a Nazi official from his post as conductor of the Radio Berlin Chorus when he refused to discharge three Jewish singers. Filing suit in a Nazi court, he won his case. The Berlin post had been filled, however, and it was not until 1939 that he was able to obtain another conducting post, this time at the Opera Salzburg, Austria. In World War II there, he served as a rescue squad volunteer during the months of air bombardment. During the six years of unemployment the Albrechts had lived in a small Black Forest cottage, subsisting on the maestro's pension as a World War I artillery officer and on fees from pupils and occasional concerts."
From the Elmira Star Gazette, Oct. 10, 1974.
Maximilian Albrecht, composer and retired music director at Mount Saviour Monastery, whose career embraced opera and symphony conducting in Europe, defeating Nazis in a German court, and becoming the hero of a biographical radio drama broadcast around the world, has died at 87. He died at Portsmouth, R.I., where he had lived since 1969. Word of his death was received here from his wife, who as Ludwiga Kuckuck, had sung at the Vienna and Salzburg operas when Albrecht conducted there. Burial was in the cemetery of the Portsmouth Abbey. Coming to the United States in 1951 at the urging of his friends the von Trapps (the "Trapp Family Singers," the subject of the motion picture "The Sound of Music"), Prof. Albrecht headed the music department at Portsmouth Priory School. In 1962 he transferred to Mount Saviour as Director of Vocal Music, while Mrs. Albrecht managed St. Gertrude's Guest House there. A highlight in the Albrecht career in America came in 1965 when his hour-long "Requiem" was premiered at New York's famous Town Hall by the Amor Artis Chorale and Orchestra. It won ovations from audiences and New York critics. Another highlight was in 1971 when the Ave Maria Hour broadcast a 30-minute radio drama based on his life. It was heard over 300 domestic stations as well as over the worldwide Armed Forces Network. Born Feb. 16, 1887, in Dachwig, Germany, Prof. Albrecht was educated at the Universities of Jena and Berlin, the Berlin State Academy of Music and the Leipzig Royal Conservatory. He conducted opera and oratorio at Freiburg and Stetin, and guest-conducted the symphony orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Basel and Palatinate, as well as major broadcasting orchestras. At the height of his career in 1933 he was dismissed by a Nazi official from his post as conductor of the Radio Berlin Chorus when he refused to discharge three Jewish singers. Filing suit in a Nazi court, he won his case. The Berlin post had been filled, however, and it was not until 1939 that he was able to obtain another conducting post, this time at the Opera Salzburg, Austria. In World War II there, he served as a rescue squad volunteer during the months of air bombardment. During the six years of unemployment the Albrechts had lived in a small Black Forest cottage, subsisting on the maestro's pension as a World War I artillery officer and on fees from pupils and occasional concerts."
From the Elmira Star Gazette, Oct. 10, 1974.
"Prof. Albrecht Dies At 87:
Maximilian Albrecht, composer and retired music director at Mount Saviour Monastery, whose career embraced opera and symphony conducting in Europe, defeating Nazis in a German court, and becoming the hero of a biographical radio drama broadcast around the world, has died at 87. He died at Portsmouth, R.I., where he had lived since 1969. Word of his death was received here from his wife, who as Ludwiga Kuckuck, had sung at the Vienna and Salzburg operas when Albrecht conducted there. Burial was in the cemetery of the Portsmouth Abbey. Coming to the United States in 1951 at the urging of his friends the von Trapps (the "Trapp Family Singers," the subject of the motion picture "The Sound of Music"), Prof. Albrecht headed the music department at Portsmouth Priory School. In 1962 he transferred to Mount Saviour as Director of Vocal Music, while Mrs. Albrecht managed St. Gertrude's Guest House there. A highlight in the Albrecht career in America came in 1965 when his hour-long "Requiem" was premiered at New York's famous Town Hall by the Amor Artis Chorale and Orchestra. It won ovations from audiences and New York critics. Another highlight was in 1971 when the Ave Maria Hour broadcast a 30-minute radio drama based on his life. It was heard over 300 domestic stations as well as over the worldwide Armed Forces Network. Born Feb. 16, 1887, in Dachwig, Germany, Prof. Albrecht was educated at the Universities of Jena and Berlin, the Berlin State Academy of Music and the Leipzig Royal Conservatory. He conducted opera and oratorio at Freiburg and Stetin, and guest-conducted the symphony orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Basel and Palatinate, as well as major broadcasting orchestras. At the height of his career in 1933 he was dismissed by a Nazi official from his post as conductor of the Radio Berlin Chorus when he refused to discharge three Jewish singers. Filing suit in a Nazi court, he won his case. The Berlin post had been filled, however, and it was not until 1939 that he was able to obtain another conducting post, this time at the Opera Salzburg, Austria. In World War II there, he served as a rescue squad volunteer during the months of air bombardment. During the six years of unemployment the Albrechts had lived in a small Black Forest cottage, subsisting on the maestro's pension as a World War I artillery officer and on fees from pupils and occasional concerts."
From the Elmira Star Gazette, Oct. 10, 1974.
Maximilian Albrecht, composer and retired music director at Mount Saviour Monastery, whose career embraced opera and symphony conducting in Europe, defeating Nazis in a German court, and becoming the hero of a biographical radio drama broadcast around the world, has died at 87. He died at Portsmouth, R.I., where he had lived since 1969. Word of his death was received here from his wife, who as Ludwiga Kuckuck, had sung at the Vienna and Salzburg operas when Albrecht conducted there. Burial was in the cemetery of the Portsmouth Abbey. Coming to the United States in 1951 at the urging of his friends the von Trapps (the "Trapp Family Singers," the subject of the motion picture "The Sound of Music"), Prof. Albrecht headed the music department at Portsmouth Priory School. In 1962 he transferred to Mount Saviour as Director of Vocal Music, while Mrs. Albrecht managed St. Gertrude's Guest House there. A highlight in the Albrecht career in America came in 1965 when his hour-long "Requiem" was premiered at New York's famous Town Hall by the Amor Artis Chorale and Orchestra. It won ovations from audiences and New York critics. Another highlight was in 1971 when the Ave Maria Hour broadcast a 30-minute radio drama based on his life. It was heard over 300 domestic stations as well as over the worldwide Armed Forces Network. Born Feb. 16, 1887, in Dachwig, Germany, Prof. Albrecht was educated at the Universities of Jena and Berlin, the Berlin State Academy of Music and the Leipzig Royal Conservatory. He conducted opera and oratorio at Freiburg and Stetin, and guest-conducted the symphony orchestras of Vienna, Berlin, Basel and Palatinate, as well as major broadcasting orchestras. At the height of his career in 1933 he was dismissed by a Nazi official from his post as conductor of the Radio Berlin Chorus when he refused to discharge three Jewish singers. Filing suit in a Nazi court, he won his case. The Berlin post had been filled, however, and it was not until 1939 that he was able to obtain another conducting post, this time at the Opera Salzburg, Austria. In World War II there, he served as a rescue squad volunteer during the months of air bombardment. During the six years of unemployment the Albrechts had lived in a small Black Forest cottage, subsisting on the maestro's pension as a World War I artillery officer and on fees from pupils and occasional concerts."
From the Elmira Star Gazette, Oct. 10, 1974.
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