Stella Prince Stocker was an American

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 composer and choral conductor.

Biography

Stella Prince was born in Jacksonville, Illinois

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 to parents Dr. David and Lucy Manning Chandler Prince. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Jacksonville and the University of Michigan

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 in 1880 with a B.A. degree, and continued her studies at the Sorbonne

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 in Paris

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. She studied piano with Xaver Scharwenka

Xaver Scharwenka

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 and counterpoint and composition with Bruno Oscar Klein in New York

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, piano with Frau Gliemann in Dresden

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, and voice with Giovanni Shiglia. After completing her studies, she worked as a musician, composer and lecturer in Europe

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 and America

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. She was considered an expert on American Indian music and culture.

Stocker married Samuel Marston Stocker, a Duluth physician, in 1885. The couple moved to Duluth, Minnesota

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 where Stella founded and directed the Duluth Cecilian Chorale society and had a son, Arthur, and a daughter, Clara. Stocker died in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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. A collection of her papers is housed at the University of Minnesota Library in Duluth.

Works

Stocker composed instrumental and choral works and also for theater. Selected works include:

• Ganymeade, light opera in three acts (1902)
• Evelyn, a Musical Fairy Tale (1908)
• Sieur du Lhut
  Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
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  Indian pantomime (1916)
• Marvels of Manabush Indian pantomime
• Beulah, Queen of Hearts operetta
• Raoul operetta
• Nectar Song for soprano and alto voices
• Macaroni Song baritone solo
• Song of the Novice