Albert Becker (composer)
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Albert Becker (13 June 1834, Quedlinburg - 10 January 1899, Berlin) was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period. From 1853-1856 he studied music composition under Siegfried Dehn in Berlin. He taught on the faculty of the Akademie der Künste where his most famous pupil was Jean Sibelius. In 1889 he was appointed conductor of the Royal cathedral choir in Berlin. He is the grandfather of composer Günter Raphael.
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