Stoessel, Albert (Frederic) (1894–1943)

US violinist, composer, and conductor. He studied at home, and later at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. On his return to America he appeared as a solo violinist. He served as a bandmaster during the 1914–18 war, and in 1922 succeeded W Damrosch as conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York, and director of music at the Chautauqua Institution. In 1930 he became director of the opera and orchestra at the Juilliard Graduate School, New York. He conducted the New York first performance of Ariadne auf Naxos.

Works opera Garrick (1937); suites Hispania (1921) and Early Americana (1935), Suite antique, symphonic portrait Cyrano de Bergerac (after Rostand), Concerto grosso for orchestra; Suite antique arranged for two violins and piano (1922), violin and piano sonata and pieces.