Discipline: Music Composition

Albert Stoessel

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1935
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Albert Stoessel (1894–1943) was an American composer, violinist, and conductor. Stoessel composed the opera Garrick in 1936, wrote a treatise in 1919 entitled The Technique of the Baton, and composed a number of violin, piano, choral, and orchestra pieces. He conducted the United States premiere of the Piano Concerto in D flat by Aram Khachaturian, on 14 March 1942, with soloist Maro Ajemian and the Juilliard Graduate School. It was while on stage conducting an orchestra for the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, that Stoessel died of a heart attack on May 12, 1943.