George Alexander Albrecht (15 February 1935 – 21 December 2021) was a German conductor and composer, who also worked as a musicologist and academic teacher.

[1] In 1958, Rudolf Hindemith's opera Des Kaisers neue Kleider after Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes" was premiered in Bremen.

[5] Albrecht performed Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen staged by intendant Hans-Peter Lehmann with sets and costumes by Ekkehard Grübler.

Albrecht then conducted some of the more infrequently presented operas, like Janáček's Jenufa, Handel's Jephta and Hercules, Wolf-Ferrari's Sly and Alban Berg's Lulu.

[12] He introduced contemporary composers,[5][14] conducting Aribert Reimann's Troades in 1987,[15] and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in 1989.

[5][7][16] He conducted a production of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, staged by George Tabori, for both Hannover and Oper Leipzig.

[18] From 1990 to 1995, Albrecht was a regular guest conductor of the Semperoper in Dresden,[7] where his work included conducting the Tabori production of Moses und Aron in 1994.

He composed many lieder for different ensembles, inspired by poetry of Gerhard Altenbourg, Ernst Barlach, Paul Celan, Gerhart Hauptmann and Erich Kästner's "Die 13 Monate", and a cycle setting texts from Buchenwald concentration camp.

[5] Albrecht composed an opera for children Die Schneekönigin, after Andersen's fairy-tale "The Snow Queen", initiated by Gudrun Schröfel, the conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover.

[33] His First Symphony "Sinfonia di due Mondi" for mezzo-soprano and large orchestra on texts by Ulla Hahn received its world premiere in August 2019 by the Staatskapelle Weimar, conducted by his son Marc Albrecht.