Albrecht Agthe

Wilhelm Johann Albrecht Agthe (14 April 1790 – 8 October 1873) was a German music educator and composer. He was the son of the composer and organist Carl Christian Agthe. Agthe wrote overtures, church music, piano pieces, and songs.

He was born in Ballenstedt in Anhalt-Bernburg. He completed secondary school in Magdeburg and then studied in Erfurt with Michael Gotthard Fischer.

In 1810 Agthe began teaching in Leipzig, and from 1812 he played violin in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. He later taught in Dresden, Posen, and Breslau; in Posen his students included Theodor and Adolf Kullak. In his teaching he also employed the Logier method, emphasizing small-group instruction over individual lessons and combining the study of pianistic technique with the fundamentals of harmony.

In 1823 he founded his own music school in Berlin and also taught princesses at the Prussian court. From 1826 to 1830 he taught music in Poznan (having earlier also worked in Wroclaw). After 1845 he was forced to stop teaching because of deteriorating eyesight, and he died in Berlin in 1873.

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