Richard Stöhr

Richard Franz Stöhr (11 June 1874 – 11 December 1967) was an Austrian composer and music educator.

Stöhr studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory. In 1900, he began working there as a répétiteur and choral instructor. Between 1903 and 1938, Stöhr taught music theory, including harmony, counterpoint, and form at the conservatory, before becoming a professor there in 1915. His students included Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Serkin, Erich Leinsdorf, Samuel Barber, Erich Zeisl, Louis Horst, Marlene Dietrich, Alois Hába, Hellmut Federhofer, and Mimi Wagensonner.

During the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, he was dismissed from the Vienna Conservatory due to his Jewish heritage. He went to the United States the following year and began teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His students included Leonard Bernstein and Eugene Bossart. From 1941 to 1950, he taught at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, where he remained as Professor Emeritus until 1960. He died in Montpelier in 1967. Provided by Wikipedia