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Charles d'Albert, 1st Duke of Luynes (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl dalbɛʁ]; 5 August 1578 – 15 December 1621) was a French courtier and a favourite of Louis XIII. In 1619, the king made him Duke of Luynes and a Peer of France , and in 1621, Constable of France .
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Early life and education
D'Albert was born at 4 Crescent Place, Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Annie Rowell, and a German-born father of French and Italian descent, Charles Louis Napoléon d'Albert (1809–1886), whose ancestors included the composers Giuseppe Matteo Alberti and Domenico Alberti. D'Albert's father was a pianist, arranger and a prolific composer of salon music who had been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden. D'Albert was born when his father was 55 years old. The Musical T...
Career
In 1881 Hans Richter invited d'Albert to play his first piano concerto, which was "received with enthusiasm". This seems to have been d'Albert's lost concerto in A major, not the work published three years later as his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 2. In the same year d'Albert won the Mendelssohn Scholarship, enabling him to study in Vienna, where he met Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt and other important musicians who influenced his style. D'Albert, retaining his early enthusiasm for Ger...
Personal life and death
D'Albert's friends included Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ignatz Waghalter and Gerhart Hauptmann, the dramatist. He was married six times and had eight children. His first wife was Louise Salingré. His second, from 1892 to 1895, was the Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño, who had married several times and was considerably older than d'Albert. D'Albert and Carreño were the subject of a famous joke: "Come quick! Your children and my children are quar...
As pianist, d'Albert did not record extensively, although his recordings represent a wide range of music. They include his own Scherzo, Op. 16; Capriolen, Op. 32; Suite, Op. 1, Gavotte and Minuet; and piano arrangements from his opera Die Toten Augen. He made several Beethoven recordings, including the Piano Sonatas Nos. 18 and 21 ("Waldstein"), an...
Lederer, Josef-Horst: "Albert, Eugen d'", in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), biographical part, vol. 1 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999), cc. 336–339.Pangels, Charlotte: Eugen d'Albert: Wunderpianist und Komponist: eine Biographie (Zürich & Freiburg: Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, 1981), ISBN 3-7611-0595-9.Raupp, Wilhelm: Eugen d'Albert. Ein Künstler- und Menschenschicksal(Leipzig: Koehler und Amelang, 1930).Sadie, Stanley (ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols. (1992).Free scores by Eugen d'Albert at the International Music Score Library Project(IMSLP)Piano rolls available from The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundationincluding rolls recording D'Albert's playing.Charles d' Albert. Father of Eugen d' Albert. His son's middle name was Charles. Born in Hamburg to a captain of cavalry in the French army; on his father's death in 1816 mother and son emigrated to England (where Charles spent most of the rest of his life).
