Charles Louis Napoléon D'Albert
Charles Louis Napoléon d'Albert (25 February 1809 – 26 May 1886) was a German-born British dance master and prolific composer of popular dance music. In addition to his own compositions he published numerous arrangements of operatic melodies as dance music. He was the father of the Romantic-era pianist Eugene d'Albert. Life and career D'Albert was born on 25 February 1809 in Nienstedten, near Hamburg, the only son of François Benoit d'Albert, a cavalry captain in the French Army and aide-de-camp to General Bernard-Georges-François Frère."Mons. Ch. D'Albert", ''The Daily Chronicle'', 17 August 1861, p. 2 His mother was Chretienne Sophie Henriette, ''née'' Schultz, daughter of Johann Carl Schultz, a Hamburg merchant. She was an accomplished amateur musician and gave d'Albert his first instruction, introducing him to the music of Joseph Haydn, Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven. His father died in 1816, and Johann Schultz was ruined by ...
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Charles D'Albert
Charles d'Albert may refer to: * Charles d'Albert, 1st Duke of Luynes (1578–1621), a French courtier * Charles d'Albert d'Ailly (1625–1698), a French general * Charles d'Albert (musician) (1809–1886), a German-born British dance master and composer {{disambig, hn=d'Albert, Charles ...
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