After one semester at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität he moved to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he was a student of Johannes Wolf, Hermann Abert, Curt Sachs and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel.
"composer" by Johannes Wolf at the Philosophical Faculty in Berlin with a dissertation on the performance practice of Italian music of the 14th century.
[3] Heinz Drewes, whom he knew from his time as a student in Berlin, brought him to the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda in 1937, where he was a consultant in Department X (music) until 1939.
[4] Still mentioned in 2007 in the Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich,[5] Ernst Klee waived Albrecht's inclusion in the completely revised edition of 2009.
A habilitation was initially not possible for him, since the musicological institutes in University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn had no free chair.
On 4 June 1942 he was habilitated at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with a thesis on the life and work of Caspar Othmayr.
He followed Max Seiffert in 1941, after his emeritus, as provisional director of the State Institute for German Music Research.
He took care of the inventory of subdivision 3 (instrument museum) at Seifertdorf castle [de] near Liegnitz in Silesia.
He was a close advisor Friedrich Blume and from 1947 to 1958 belonged to the editors of the encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.