Albert Huybrechts

Albert Huybrechts studied at Royal Conservatory of Brussels. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is music, composed musical work and incidental music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

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.

• Stage • Agamemnon, Incidental Music after Aeschylus for tenor, baritone, male chorus and orchestra (1932–1933) • Orchestra • David, Poème symphonique (1923) • Poème féerique (1923) • Sérénade en 3 mouvements (1929) • Chant d'angoisse (1930) • Nocturne (1931) • Concertante • Chant funèbre for cello and orchestra (1926); also for cello and piano • Concertino for cello and orchestra (1932) • Chamber music • String Quartet No. 1 (1924) • Sonata for violin and piano (1925) • Chant funèbre for cello and piano (1926); also orchestrated • Trio for flute, viola and piano (1926) • String Quartet No. 2 (1927) • Sextuor (Pastorale) for 2 flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1927) • Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano (1929) • Divertissement for brass and percussion (1931) • Pastourelle for cello or viola da gamba and piano (1934) • Sonatine for flute and viola (1934) • Piano Trio (1935) • Quintette à vent (Woodwind Quintet) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1936) • Aesope for string quartet • Organ • Choral (1930) • Piano • Sicilienne (1934) • Vocal • Les roses de Saadi for soprano and piano (1919); words by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore • Cétait un soir de féeries for soprano and piano (1920); words by Francis Viélé-Griffin • Chant d'automne for soprano and piano (1920); words by Charles Baudelaire • Deux poèmes for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (1923); words by Emile Verhaeren • Horoscopes for soprano and piano (1926); words by Francis James • Trois poèmes for mezzo-soprano and piano (1928); words by Edgar Allan Poe in translation by Stéphane Mallarmé • Eldorado for soprano or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1928); words by Edgar Allan Poe in translation by Stéphane Mallarmé • Prière pour avoir une femme simple for tenor and piano or orchestra (1934); words by Francis James • Mirliton for soprano and piano (1934); words by Tristan Corbière