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Carl Ludwig Albert Banck (* May 27, 1809 in Magdeburg; † December 28, 1889 in Dresden) was a German composer and music writer.
Banck was the son of Johann Carl Banck (1771-1842), who was organist and cathedral vicar at Magdeburg Cathedral. He studied in Berlin under Bernhard Klein, Ludwig Berger, and Carl Friedrich Zelter, and then in Dessau with Friedrich Schneider.
After his Grand Tour to and through Italy, he worked in Magdeburg, Berlin and Leipzig as a music critic, including for Robert Schumann's ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik''. For a time, he gave singing lessons to Schumann's bride Clara Wieck. Later he went to Thuringia and married a woman from Rudolstadt. From 1840, he worked as a singing teacher in Dresden. In 1845/46 he undertook a second trip to Italy.

Note: Translated from a German version of WIkipedia into English.