Albrecht Agthe

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Wilhelm Johann Albrecht Agthe (April 14, 1790 – October 8, 1873) was a German music teacher.

Agthe was born in Ballenstedt to Karl Christian Agthe, a court organist and composer. He studied under Michael Gotthard Fischer in Erfurt, and in 1810 became a music teacher in Leipzig and a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 1823 he began teaching using Logier's method in Dresden; from 1826 in Posen (where he taught Theodor Kullak); from 1830 in Breslau; and from 1832 in Berlin, where he directed a music school for 13 years.

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• "Agthe, (Wilhelm Johann) Albrecht". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (3rd edition). (1919). Ed. Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy. 8.