What is Gerd Albrecht?
[[File:GerdAlbrecht.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gerd Albrecht]] '''Gerd Albrecht''' (19 July 1935 – 2 February 2014) was a [[Germans|German]] [[Conducting|conductor]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951738-3,00.html | title=Three Premieres, Three Hits | magazine=Time | author=Michael Walsh | date=29 June 1981 | accessdate=2007-09-13 | archive-date=2012-10-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020120126/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951738-3,00.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a first-prize winner at the [[International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors]] at age 22.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E0D61338F934A25755C0A967948260 | title=''Lear'' by Aribert Reimann | newspaper=New York Times | author=John Rockwell | date=17 June 1981 | accessdate=2007-09-06}}</ref> He composed with many famous [[Europe]]an [[orchestra]]s such as [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]], the [[Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich]] and the [[Hamburg State Opera]]. Albrecht was born in [[Essen]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://oq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/17/1/158?ck=nck | last=Graeme |first=Roland | title=''Lear''. Aribert Reimann | journal=The Opera Quarterly | volume=17 | issue=1 | pages=158–161 | year=2001 | accessdate=2007-09-13 | doi=10.1093/oq/17.1.158}}</ref> Albrecht died at the age of 78 on 2 February 2014 in [[Berlin]], Germany. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Albrecht, Gerd}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:German conductors]] [[Category:Musicians from North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:People from Essen]] {{bio-stub}}