Stella Stocker

Stella Prince Stocker (3 April 1858 – 29 March 1925) was an American composer, choral conductor, and early ethnomusicologist of Ojibwe traditions. Life and career Stella Prince was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, to parents Dr. David and Lucy Manning Chandler Prince. Her father directed the David Prince Sanatorium in Jacksonville. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Jacksonville and the University of Michigan in 1880 with a B.A. degree, and continued her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. She studied but did not graduate from Wellesley College, but did give an address at a memorial for Wellesley founder Henry Fowle Durant in 1889. She studied piano with Xaver Scharwenka and counterpoint and composition with Bruno Oscar Klein in New York City, piano with Frau Gliemann in Dresden, and voice with Giovanni Sbriglia. After completing her studies, she worked as a musician, composer and lecturer in Europe and America. In 1885, Stocker married Samuel Marston Stocker, a Duluth physician who was working at her father’s hospital. and Edward MacDowell. In Minnesota, Stocker began in-depth studies of the music and traditions of the Ojibwe. She visited the Mille Lacs, Leech Lake, Nett