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Konstantin Karlovich Albrecht (4 October 183626 June 1893) was a cellist in the Moscow Bolshoi Theater orchestra, a teacher and administrator. Interested in choral music, he founded the Moscow Choral Society in 1878. He also helped to found the Russian Musical Society and the
Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. Th ...
.


Friendship with Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky and Albrecht met while both were working at the
Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory () is a higher musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. Th ...
. The two became friends, and
Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular ...
dedicated his Serenade for Strings to Albrecht. Tchaikovsky also contributed to Albrecht's ''Collections of Choral Pieces for Single and Mixed Voices.''


See also


with Tchaikovsky List of letters from Tchaikovsky to Albrecht at Tchaikovsky Research


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Albrecht, Konstantin Musicians from the Russian Empire Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory 1836 births 1893 deaths 19th-century composers from the Russian Empire Russian cellists