Alt, Joseph 17??-f1790 Germany Silesia, ?Glogau - ?, ?
violinist, oboist, hornist, tenor singer, composer, son of a rector, studied law in Berlin and Frankfurt an der Oder, then c1790 became teacher and music director at Stifte Lilienfeld Austria, Hoffmann and Fetis attribute the listed 3 Quartets to his father Alt (1701-1778), rector and town clerk in Glogau Silesia, distinguished amateur violinist and composer

[Carl Julius Adolph Hoffmann 1830 : Alt (1701-1778), rector and town clerk in Glogau Silesia, 1790 Hummel in Berlin published his three quartets for flute, violin, viola and cello]

[Fetis 1860 : Alt, Secretary of State for Glogau, in the late eighteenth century, was a distinguished amateur violinist and composer, 1790 he published with Hummel in Berlin three quartets for flute, violins and bass]

[Eitner 1900 (after an article in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung Vienna 1817-1823 and in the Leipziger Zeitung 10.jun.1829) : Joseph Alt born in Prussian Silesia, studied law, then c1790 became teacher and music director at Stifte Lilienfeld Austria]

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[] 3 Quartets. Flute, violin, viola and cello. op1 pub J. J. Hummel, Berlin 1788 pub J. J. Hummel, Berlin 1790 attributed by Hoffmann to Alt (1701-1778), rector and town clerk in Glogau attributed by Fetis to Alt, amateur violinist and town clerk in Glogau Silesia attributed by Eitner to Joseph Alt, c1790 music director at Stifte Lilienfeld proven by RISM AII as a composition by Joseph Alt, published 1788 (but since the father's name is unknown, it does not prove whether it is a composition by the father or the son)

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[] 3 Quartets. Flute, violin, viola and cello. op1
pub J. J. Hummel, Berlin 1788
pub J. J. Hummel, Berlin 1790
attributed by Hoffmann to Alt (1701-1778), rector and town clerk in Glogau
attributed by Fetis to Alt, amateur violinist and town clerk in Glogau Silesia
attributed by Eitner to Joseph Alt, c1790 music director at Stifte Lilienfeld
proven by RISM AII as a composition by Joseph Alt, published 1788 (but since the father's name is unknown, it does not prove whether it is a composition by the father or the son)

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