- Richard Stöhr
Richard Stöhr (
June 11 ,1874 –December 11 ,1967 ) was anAustria ncomposer ,music author andteacher .Born in
Vienna , he studied composition withRobert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory.After working there as a
repetiteur and choral instructor from 1900, he taught music (theory ofharmony ,counterpoint , form) from 1903 to 1938, being professor from 1915. Among his students wereAlois Haba andHellmut Federhofer .He emigrated to the US in 1938 and taught at the
Curtis Institute of Music inPhiladelphia . His students there includedLeonard Bernstein .He died in Montpelier,
Vermont in the United States.Bibliography
* Stöhr, Richard "Praktischer Leitfaden der Harmonielehre" (Vienna: UE, 1906)
* Stöhr, Richard "Musikalische Formenlehre" (Leipzig, 1911)External links
* [http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Stoehr/lebenslauf_1.html Biography] (in German)
* [http://www.mdw.ac.at/imp/html/forschung/artikel/hen-stoehr.html About Stöhr] (in German)
* [http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/stohr_richard.html Short biography] in English
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