Albert Stoessel

Life

Albert Stoessel studied music with Emanuel Wirth and Willy Hess at the Berlin Academy of Music. At 19, he began his career as a professional musician with the Hessian string quartet and toured as a violinist in Switzerland, Holland and Germany. In 1915 he returned for a concert tour in the United States. He has performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in appearance and lived until 1917 in Boston, while he continued his career as a violinist and composer.

In 1917 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and held the rank of lieutenant in the 301st Infantry American Expeditionary Forces. He was also head of the Regimental band of Camp Devens. 1918 Stoessel went to France with the 76th Division as a conductor of the 301 he became director of, organized by Walter Damrosch conductor AEF School of Chaumont (France).

After he was released in 1919, Stoessel performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and accompanied Enrico Caruso on his last tour. In 1921 he became assistant conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York under Walter Damrosch. In 1923 he was appointed director of the School of Music at New York University, which he chaired for seven years, in 1924 he obtained his MA. From there he went in 1931 at the Juilliard School, where he held the post of Director of the Department of Opera and Orchestra. In 1925 he became conductor of the Worcester Festival of the Worcester (Massachusetts ) County Musicalo Association and director of the West Chester Festival in White Plains, New York, from 1927 until 1933. Stoessel began his work with the Chautauqua Institution in 1921 as a conductor and was built in 1929 for the musical director appointed.

Albert Stoessel married on June 27, 1917 Julia Pickard Stoessel, which is also in Berlin had to be trained for the violinist. They had two sons, Edward and Fredric.

Stoessel died of a heart attack, during a concert, as he conducted an orchestra for the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.

Works

  • American Dance, no. 1 in G minor. (No. 2 in E for violin & piano) / 1917
  • Beat! beat! Drums. ( Song in 4 parts, text by W. Whitman ) / 1922
  • Boston 's own. March. Piano Solo / 1918
  • Christmas bells. / 1933
  • Comparative table of clefs
  • Compositions. Op. No. 8. 1 lullaby. No. 2 Humoresque ... (violin & piano) / 1916
  • Concerto Grosso / 1935
  • Crinoline. Minuet, etc. (violin & piano) / 1916
  • Cyrano de Bergerac. A symphonic portrait. For Orchestra / 1931
  • Early Americana
  • Garrick (1936 )
  • Hymn to Diana. sketch
  • Short studies in double stopping, for the violin through all the keys. / 1940.
  • Suite Antique ( for 2 violins and piano) / 1924
  • The Technic of the Baton (1919, originally written for his classes in Chaumont )
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