Gustave J. Stoeckel

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Gustave Jakob Stoeckel (ca. 1830 - ca. 1900) was a longtime music instructor and college organist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Stoeckel compiled a hymnal with the title Sacred Music, first published in 1868. He held the position of organist at Yale's chapel for over 30 years, beginning in 1860 until his resignation in May of 1894.[1]

Stoeckel Hall at 96 Wall Street, used by Yale's School of Music, is named in honour of Gustave J. Stoeckel, and Battell Chapel is named for Joseph Battell, whose 1854 gift enabled the university to begin offering music education.[2] Stoeckel Hall houses the Norfolk Summer School headquarters, faculty studios, and the Oral History, American Music Project with its audio and videotaped interviews of Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Duke Ellington and others.[2]

Dr. Stoeckel made his last appearance as a professor of music performing preludes and postludes for the graduating class at the commencement exercises held in Battell Chapel on Sunday, June 24, 1894.[1]

[edit] External Links

  • Gustave J. Stoeckel, Sacred Music, paperback reprint by Kessinger (Kila, Montana: 2003), 168 pp. ISBN 0766154785
  • David Stanley Smith, Gustave Stoeckel, Yale pioneer in music, Connecticut State Library Biographical Sketches, Vol. 73, No. 20, 1939
  • review of D.S. Smith's book on Stoeckel in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Mar., 1940), p. 148)
  • Luther Noss, '"Music Comes to Yale" in American Music, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 337-346
  • Oral History, American Music (OHAM)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b New York Times, "Yale Commencement Work". June 18, 1894
  2. ^ a b "Yale School of Art", news release, December 20, 1996
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