[1] From 1924 to 1933 he worked as musical adviser and conductor of the Vlaamsche Volkstooneel [nl], later becoming an assistant director at the Flemish section of the Belgian National Broadcasting Service [nl] (NIR), Brussels, a post he held until his retirement in 1961.
After this year he worked as a music critic for the weekly paper Het toneel, and focused his attention on composition.
He was best known for the stage music he composed for the Vlaams Volkstoneel and the Théâtre du Marais in Brussels.
These "constructions", meant to realise a "community art", began to appear as early as 1922, though most characteristically they belong to the period from 1926 to 1937.
[2] Albert first began to explore twelve-tone technique in the second movement of his Quintet for flute, oboe, and string trio (1954), and intensified this tendency in the Theme and Variations for piano (1955), Third Sonata for piano (1956), and Bloeiende lotus (1956), finally forming a complete work on a twelve-tone row with the orchestral work De nacht (1956), followed by the Suite for orchestra (1958) and a succession of chamber music pieces and songs.