Albert Huybrechts
Albert Huybrechts was a Belgian composer.
Life
Albert Huybrechts was born into a musical family. His father, Joseph-Jacques, was a double bassist in the orchestra of the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, and his great grand-uncle was the cellist Adrien-François Servais.Huybrechts enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels at age 11, where he studied under Joseph Jongen, P. Marchand, and Léon Du Bois. In 1915, Huybtechts won an award for oboe playing at the Conservatory.
In 1920, Huybrechts' father died; he left the composer a small inheritance. He won a prize for fugue with Jongen in 1922, and in 1926 his String Quartet No. 1 won first prize at the Frost-Coolidge Music Festival in Ojai, California. A few days later, his Violin Sonata won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge award.
The Wall Street crash of 1929 depleted Huybrechts' inheritance; a thwarted love affair in the 1930s added further stress. In January 1938, at Jean Absil's recommendation, Huybrechts was appointed as a junior lecturer in harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. On 21 February, he died unexpectedly of kidney failure.
Works
;StageAgamemnon, Incidental Music after Aeschylus for tenor, baritone, male chorus and orchestra;OrchestraDavid, Poème symphonique Poème féerique Sérénade en 3 mouvements Chant d'angoisse Nocturne
;ConcertanteChant funèbre for cello and orchestra ; also for cello and piano
- Concertino for cello and orchestra
- String Quartet No. 1
- Sonata for violin and piano Chant funèbre for cello and piano ; also orchestrated
- Trio for flute, viola and piano
- String Quartet No. 2 Sextuor for 2 flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
- Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano Divertissement for brass and percussion Pastourelle for cello or viola da gamba and piano Sonatine for flute and viola
- Piano Trio Quintette à vent for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon Aesope for string quartet
;PianoSicilienne
;VocalLes roses de Saadi for soprano and piano ; words by Marceline Desbordes-ValmoreCétait un soir de féeries for soprano and piano ; words by Francis Viélé-GriffinChant d'automne for soprano and piano ; words by Charles BaudelaireDeux poèmes for mezzo-soprano and string quartet ; words by Emile VerhaerenHoroscopes for soprano and piano ; words by Francis JamesTrois poèmes for mezzo-soprano and piano ; words by Edgar Allan Poe in translation by Stéphane MallarméEldorado for soprano or mezzo-soprano and orchestra ; words by Edgar Allan Poe in translation by Stéphane MallarméPrière pour avoir une femme simple for tenor and piano or orchestra ; words by Francis JamesMirliton for soprano and piano ; words by Tristan Corbière