Albert Fuller

Albert Fuller (July 21, 1926 – September 22, 2007) was an American harpsichordist, teacher and prominent proponent of early music. He was the first artist to record the complete keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Fuller was born in Washington, D.C. and started his studies of music there at the Washington National Cathedral where he was a boy soprano and studied the organ with Paul Callaway. He later attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in nearby Baltimore as well as Georgetown and John Hopkins universities. Fuller later went on to study harpsichord under Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale and theory under Paul Hindemith, he graduated in 1954 with an M.Mus.

After graduating Fuller went to Paris on a Ditson Fellowship. On his return in 1957 he gave his first New York recital. In 1964 Fuller was made a Professor at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1972 he co-founded the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and Humanities and was its artistic director until 1983. The Foundation's aims are to cquote|"enrich the appreciation of music of the past and the understanding of the cultural, political, and social contexts in which it was composed and experienced"
Fuller also founded the Helicon Foundation in 1985, it aims to perform Chamber music in intimate settings using instruments and performance styles of the period.

External links

* [http://www.astonmagna.org/ Aston Magna Foundation website]
* [http://www.heliconfoundation.blogspot.com Helicon Foundation website]