Eugen d'Albert

Biography

Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert (April 10, 1864 – March 3, 1932) was a German pianist and composer.

D'Albert was born in Glasgow to an English mother and a French/Italian father, Charles Louis Napoleon d'Albert, a dancer, pianist and music arranger who had formerly been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden.[1] Eugen d'Albert never spoke English fluently, and considered himself to be German.

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