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	*[[Italian Influence at Monticello]]		*[[Italian Influence at Monticello]]
	*[[Origin of the Name "Monticello"]]		*[[Origin of the Name "Monticello"]]
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		+	==Further Sources==
		+	*Cripe, Helen. [http://books.google.com/books?id=IMaSQgAACAAJ ''Thomas Jefferson and Music.''] Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1974. [http://books.google.com/books?id=DTf3QQAACAAJ Rev. 2010.] This book is the definitive work on Jefferson and music.

	[[Category:Music]]		[[Category:Music]]
	[[Category:People\|Alberti, Francis]]		[[Category:People\|Alberti, Francis]]

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	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
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		+	==See Also==
		+	*[[Italian Influence at Monticello]]
		+	*[[Origin of the Name "Monticello"]]

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	[[Category:People\|Alberti, Francis]]		[[Category:People\|Alberti, Francis]]

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	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

-	Alberti evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>	+	Alberti evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American Continental Congress in Behalf of all the Colonies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>

	Little more is known of Alberti; he disappears from Jefferson's accounts after 1777. On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342.</ref> An inventory of Alberti's property at the time of his death included three fans, cordial bottles, a pair of ladies' gloves, a tenor violin, five violin bridges, seven bows, a hymn book, and three old music books, among other items.<ref>Henrico County Court Book, 1:239-40. The sale of Alberti's property for £29-15 is recorded on page 276.</ref>		Little more is known of Alberti; he disappears from Jefferson's accounts after 1777. On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342.</ref> An inventory of Alberti's property at the time of his death included three fans, cordial bottles, a pair of ladies' gloves, a tenor violin, five violin bridges, seven bows, a hymn book, and three old music books, among other items.<ref>Henrico County Court Book, 1:239-40. The sale of Alberti's property for £29-15 is recorded on page 276.</ref>

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	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref>		'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref>

-	It is not known when Alberti first emigrated from Faenza, but one secondary reference claims that he introduced the "new Italian method" of violin teaching to the colonies in 1759.<ref>O. G. Sonneck, "Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791): The First American Composer," ''Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' 5, no 1 (1903), 123.</ref> Alberti first met Jefferson in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>	+	It is not known when Alberti first emigrated from Faenza, but one secondary reference claims that he introduced the "new Italian method" of violin teaching to the colonies in 1759.<ref>O. G. Sonneck, "Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791): The First American Composer," ''Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' 5, no 1 (1903), 123.</ref> Alberti first met Jefferson in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]] on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

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-	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> Alberti first met Jefferson in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>	+	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref>
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		+	It is not known when Alberti first emigrated from Faenza, but one secondary reference claims that he introduced the "new Italian method" of violin teaching to the colonies in 1759.<ref>O. G. Sonneck, "Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791): The First American Composer," ''Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft'' 5, no 1 (1903), 123.</ref> Alberti first met Jefferson in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

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	Alberti evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>		Alberti evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>

-	Little more is known of Alberti; he disappears from Jefferson's accounts after 1777. On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342. Alberti's will is recorded in the Henrico County Will Book, 1:239-40.</ref>	+	Little more is known of Alberti; he disappears from Jefferson's accounts after 1777. On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342.</ref> An inventory of Alberti's property at the time of his death included three fans, cordial bottles, a pair of ladies' gloves, a tenor violin, five violin bridges, seven bows, a hymn book, and three old music books, among other items.<ref>Henrico County Court Book, 1:239-40. The sale of Alberti's property for £29-15 is recorded on page 276.</ref>

	==Primary Source References==		==Primary Source References==

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-	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> He first met [[Thomas Jefferson]] in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>	+	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> Alberti first met Jefferson in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

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-	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> He first met [[Thomas Jefferson]] in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>	+	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy who taught music to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and his family.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> He first met [[Thomas Jefferson]] in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

-	Little more is known of Alberti. He evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>	+	Alberti evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>

-	On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342. Alberti's will is recorded in the Henrico County Will Book, 1:239-40.</ref>	+	Little more is known of Alberti; he disappears from Jefferson's accounts after 1777. On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342. Alberti's will is recorded in the Henrico County Will Book, 1:239-40.</ref>

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	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

-	Little more is known of Alberti. He evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, he signed his name to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>	+	Little more is known of Alberti. He evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, Alberti signed his name (as "Francis Alberte") to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>

	On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342. Alberti's will is recorded in the Henrico County Will Book, 1:239-40.</ref>		On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342. Alberti's will is recorded in the Henrico County Will Book, 1:239-40.</ref>

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-	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> He first met [[Thomas Jefferson]] in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:132. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>	+	'''Francis (Francesco) Alberti''' ( ? – 1785) was a musician from Faenza, Italy.<ref>This article is based on June King, Monticello Research Report, January 2010.</ref> He first met [[Thomas Jefferson]] in Williamsburg in the 1760s. Years later, Jefferson told his [[Nicholas Philip Trist\|grandson-in-law]] of Alberti: "...Alberti came over with a troop of players<ref>According to John W. Molnar in his article, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia," this was "almost certainly the Hallam Douglass company." In ''Art and Music in the South'', ed. Francis B. Simkins (Farmville, Va.: Longwood University, 1961), 80. See also [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGImagePopup.cfm?ID=2560&Res=HI&CFID=6307566&CFTOKEN=78098832 advertisement] for "A Concert," ''Virginia Gazette'', May 11, 1769, page 4.</ref> and afterwards taught music in Williamsburg. Subsequently I got him to come up here to Monticello and took lessons for several years." Alberti is also said to have tutored the future Mrs. Jefferson, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson\|Martha Wayles Skelton]], on the harpsichord.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-2. [http://books.google.com/books?id=TRxCAAAAIAAJ&ots=eGnsOqTcLO&dq=randall%20%22life%20of%20thomas%20jefferson%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=Alberti&f=false Text available online.]</ref> Alberti also tutored some of the younger Jefferson siblings, and taught dancing to other nearby residents, including [[James Madison]].<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

	Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>		Even after hearing some of the finest musicians and composers of the day during his years in Europe, Jefferson still retained a fondness for Alberti. He told Nicholas Trist, "I have heard Viotti often but never derived the same pleasure from him that I have from Alberti."<ref>Nicholas Trist Memorandum, quoted in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref>

-	Little more is known of Alberti. On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342.</ref>	+	Little more is known of Alberti. He evidently worked for other well-to-do families as a music teacher; the clerk of Amherst County, Edmund Wilcox, recorded a payment to Alberti for "teaching you Musick" against the account of Richard Taliaferro, a brother-in-law of [[George Wythe]], in 1774.<ref>Referenced in Molnar, "Art Music in Colonial Virginia." The ledger is in the [http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hubard_Family.html Hubard Family Papers], University of North Carolina.</ref> That same year, he signed his name to a Williamsburg imprint of the Continental Association.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mtj1&fileName=mtj1page001.db&recNum=325 "The Association entered into by the American [Conti]nental Congress in Behalf of all the Colo[nies]", Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress.</ref>
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		+	On August 5, 1785, a friend in Richmond wrote to Jefferson, "By the bye old Alberti died and was interrd last night here. He was one of a Band of musick to whom I have subscribed tho never heard them, at all; they surpass in execution, hardly the Jews Harp and Banjer performers."<ref>James Currie to Jefferson, Richmond, August 5, 1785, in [[Short Title List\|''PTJ'']], 8:342. Alberti's will is recorded in the Henrico County Will Book, 1:239-40.</ref>

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