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Anton Albrechtsberger is a new name for musical research; very few of his works have come to light until now, and those almost simultaneously. In the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna an aria was found, 'Kein lustigers Leben', which had previously been attributed to Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXVIa/49a); it has now been identified as a work by Anton Albrechtsberger. A second autograph is an 'Oberösterreichisches Lied'. In Prague a libretto for the composer's 'Singspiel über das Leben des Joseph von Copertin' was found, which identify Anton Albrechtsberger as the episcopal Capellmeister in Vienna Neustadt for 1768. The music itself is lost. These scanty facts have made it possible to identify Anton Albrechtsberger as a brother of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. According to the baptismal records of the parish church Klosterneuburg, Lower Town 'St. Martin', Anton was born on the 20th of November 1729, and was therefore seven years older than Johann Georg. This slim production is supplemented by two Divertimenti from the archives of the monastery at Melk (call numbers V7 and V8). The title pages of these manuscripts originally made no clear mention of the composer. The title of the Divertimento in C a Viola, Violoncello obl. Con Basso only got as far as 'Del Sig.', to which in another manuscript was added Albrechtsberger (no Christian name). The present Divertimento in F a Violino, Violoncello Con Basso refers to the author as 'Del Sig. Ziegler'; this name was later crossed out and altered to 'Anton Albrechtsberger'. An old thematic catalogue of the monastery's music collection, executed by an anonymous but competent copyist, specifically mentions Anton (underlined) A. as the composer, which at least solves the question of authorship beyond a doubt. Allowing for these factors, it was hardly possible to assign a reliable date to the manuscripts rather caressly made, on bad paper, by the same copyist; at the most, a date might be estimated bewteen 1770 und 1780.
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