| First name: | Albert E.A. |
| Last name: | Becker |
| Dates: | 1843-1899 |
| Category: | Quartet |
| Nationality: | German |
| Opus name: | Opus 19 in d (1881) |
| Publisher: | Peters |
| Peculiarities: | See:http://vaslib.vassar.edu/search~S1?/Xd:(piano+quartets)&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xd:(piano+quartets)&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=d%3A(piano+quartets)/451%2C501%2C501%2CB/browse; cobbett, in the possesion of Jukka Kumpulainen.score |
| Information: | Albert Becker (13 June 1834, Quedlinburg – 10 January 1899, Berlin) was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period. In 1853–1856 he studied music composition under Siegfried Dehn in Berlin. He taught on the faculty of the Akademie der Künste where his famous pupils included Johan Halvorsen and Jean Sibelius. In 1889 he was appointed conductor of the Royal cathedral choir in Berlin. He is the grandfather of composer Günter Raphael. |