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STOCKFLOTE STOCKHAUSEN 699
conducted the orchestra from Oct. 1897 to the
present date, and Mr. Munro Davison the choir
from Oct. 1898.
The subscription for members of the orohesti-a
or of the choir and for subscribera is from £1 : Is.
upwards. Membership of the Society is not restricted
to the Stock Exchange, though members
of that body take precedence in all vacancies
occuiTing in the orchestra and choir. The
orchestra numbers 130, and the Male Voice Choir
60 members. Three subscription concerts, at
least, are always given in each season, s. j. s.
STOCKFLOTE. (See Czakan, vol. i. p. 649.
STOCKHAUSEN, Madame, was bornMargarete
Schmuck, at Gebweiler in 1803, and
tiained in Paris as a concert-singer by Cartruffo.
She became the wife of the harpist and composer
Franz Stookhansen (1792-1868), and the mother
of the singer Julius Stockhausen. Husband
and wife travelled, giving not very remimerative
concerts in Switzerland (1825). Paris was
visited later, but Mme. Stockhausen's greatest
successes attended her in England, where she
was induced to return almost every year from
1828 to 1840, singing at some of the concerts
of the Philharmonic and Vocal Societies, and also
taking part in the principal private and benefit
concerts. She had little or no dramatic feeling,
but as she gained in power she grew in public
favour, and came to be recognised as a true
musician and an accomplished singer. She
was frequently engaged at provincial festivals,
and her delivery of the music of Mary in Spohr's
'
Calvary evoked ' special praise among her
oratorio parts.
A few years after her farewell appearance in
London, a home was made in Cohnar, whither
the Stookhausens retired to devote themselves
to the education of their six children. Up to
1849 Mme. Stockhausen was heard with her
son at local concerts ; she left Alsace only
occasionally to appear in public, and in her last
'
are
visit to Paris (1849) her singing showed a great
falling off. She died Oct. 6, 1877, nearly ten
years after her husband, much regretted by her
many friends. L. M. m.
STOCKHAUSEN, Julius, son of the foregoing,
one of the most remarkable singers of
his time, was bom at Paris, July 22, 1826.
His gifts showed themselves early, and his
mother was accustomed to say that he could
sing before he could speak. He and his younger
brother Edward (who died early) accompanied
their parents on a concert tour to England, and
Where learnt there to sing Bishop's duet,
you going, sweet sister Fay?' In 1833 Julius
was placed at a school at Gebweiler in Alsace,
where he remained till 1840, with a view to
the clerical profession. But such intentions
were dispelled by the violent turn for music
which asserted itself after a concert at Basle in
1842, at which Mme. Stockhausen made her
last appearance. He took a prominent part in
the concerts at Gebweiler as singer, accompanist,
violin-player, and even drummer. In 1844 he
moved to the seminary of Strasburg, and there
his performances on the violoncello and organ
sealed his fate as a priest. In 1846 and 1846
he visited Paris with his father, took lessons in
the piano from Charles Halle and Stamaty,
and in singing from Manuel Garcia, and entered
thoroughly into the abundant musical life of
the French capital, to the great advantage of
his musical education. His devotion to the
profession of music was, however, not absolutely
decided till 1848, when, at the invitation of
Ernst Reiter, the conductor, he suddenly took
the part of Elijah in a performance of that
oratorio at Basle. His success decided his
future course, and he at once threw himself
energetically into the art, and for the next few
years travelled in all directions, singing at
innumerable concerts Schubert's Schone ' Miillerin'
and other songs. In 1849 he came to
England, renewed his lessons with Garcia and
sang at various concerts. In 1861 he returned,
and sang three times at the Philharmonic,
April 7, in the Choral Symphony, April 28, in
two trios, and June 9 in a scena from Boieldieu's
'Chaperon Rouge.' Taste in England was not
then sufficiently advanced to call for the Lieder
just mentioned. To these, at the instance, of
Schrbder-Devrient, he shortly added Schumann's
'
Diohterliebe ' and others. His first appearance
on the stage seems to have been at Mannheim
in 1852-53, and he joined the Opera-Comique
at Paris in 1867-59, taking such parts as the
Seneschal in ' Jean de Paris. ' At this time he
became intimate with Aiy Sch offer ; and with
Mme. Viardot, Berlioz, Duprez, Saint-Saens, and
others, formed one of the circle by whom much
German music was performed in the studio of
the great painter.
1869 to 1862 were occupied in more concert
tours, and it was during this time at Leipzig
and Cologne that he first attempted Schumann's
'
Faust ' music. In 1862 he came to an anchor
at Hamburg as Director of the Philharmonic
Concerts and of the Singakademie, ^ position
which he retained till 1869, when he was made
Kammersinger to the King of Wiirtemberg at
Stuttgart with a salary of 2000 gulden, residing
at Canstatt. During all this time he took many
concert tours, especially with Mme. Schumann,
Joachim, and Brahms. In the latter part of
1870 he brought over his pupil Sophie Lowe to
England, sang at the Popular Concerts, and
remained till late in 1871. He once more sang
at the Philharmonic, and appeared at the Crystal
Palace, and the Monday Populars, where he
introduced several fine unknown Lieder of
Schubert. He and Frl. Lowe reappeared here
the next winter, and remained till the end of
the summer season of 1872.
In 1874 he moved from Stuttgart to Berlin,
and took the direction of the Vocal Society