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style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1821</span>)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1 October 1887<span style="display:none">(1887-10-01)</span> (aged 66)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span 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title="separated">sep.</abbr> 1869)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bijou_Heron" title="Bijou Heron">Bijou Heron</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Miller" title="Gilbert Miller">Gilbert Miller</a> (grandson)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Auguste Stoepel</b> (born <b>Auguste Stöpel</b>, 1821 – 1 October 1887) was a German-born American composer and conductor. His compositions include <i>Hiawatha</i>, a symphony for orchestra and vocal soloists, as well as <a href="/wiki/Incidental_music" title="Incidental music">incidental music</a> for plays, piano works, songs, and several operas. Born in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, Stoepel worked in Paris and London, but spent a large portion of his career in New York City where he died at the age of 66. From 1857 until their separation in 1869, he was married to the actress <a href="/wiki/Matilda_Heron" title="Matilda Heron">Matilda Heron</a>. Their daughter <a href="/wiki/Bijou_Heron" title="Bijou Heron">Bijou Heron</a> was also an actress. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Robert Stoepel was born Auguste Stöpel in Berlin in 1821.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because his father had a reputation as a court musician, he adopted his forename. His sister, Hélène Stöpel, was noted as a "charming and talented pianist."<sup id="cite_ref-mw_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (She later married the composer <a href="/wiki/William_Vincent_Wallace" title="William Vincent Wallace">William Vincent Wallace</a>.) After he graduated from the Berlin Conservatory of music, he went to Paris where he graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Conservatoire_de_Paris" title="Conservatoire de Paris">Conservatoire de Paris</a>, where his teachers included <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Cherubini" title="Luigi Cherubini">Luigi Cherubini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fromental_Hal%C3%A9vy" title="Fromental Halévy">Fromental Halévy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Kalkbrenner" title="Friedrich Kalkbrenner">Friedrich Kalkbrenner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pisani_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pisani-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He got his start at composing incidental music for dramas there, being one of three composers who contributed to a stage production of <i>Monte-Cristo</i>, a play by <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas" title="Alexandre Dumas">Alexandre Dumas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Auguste_Maquet" title="Auguste Maquet">Auguste Maquet</a> which premiered on 3 February 1848 at the <a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Historique" title="Théâtre Historique">Théâtre Historique</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to his obituary in the <i>Musical Times</i>, while in Paris he wrote two operas, <i>Indiana</i> and <i>Charlemagne</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-mt_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an 1849 article in the <i>Musical World</i> it was noted that he was negotiating with <a href="/wiki/John_Medex_Maddox" title="John Medex Maddox">John Medex Maddox</a> to produce his opera, <i>La sentinelle perdu</i>, for the Princess Theatre in London, and that he had already composed a ballet which was performed at the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Opera" title="Paris Opera">Paris Opera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mw_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mw-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1850, impresario <a href="/wiki/Max_Maretzek" title="Max Maretzek">Max Maretzek</a> brought him to New York City. His first association was with <a href="/wiki/Wallack%27s_Theatre" title="Wallack's Theatre">Wallack's Theatre</a>, where he wrote and conducted incidental music for plays. In 1856 the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> reported: "The orchestra of this establishment [i.e., Wallack's Theatre] is deliciously neat and effective, and the compositions it plays are thoroughly artistic. Mr. Robert Stoepel, the conductor, is one of the best informed musicians in the country, and the evidence of taste and knowledge are never absent. He has succeeded in making the musical department an important feature of the entertainments, and if the orchestra always plays as well as it did on Saturday night we are not at all surprised thereat."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He wrote incidental music for all of the plays written by <a href="/wiki/Dion_Boucicault" title="Dion Boucicault">Dion Boucicault</a> during his stay in New York from 1854 through 1860. He was the conductor of many New York productions of <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach" title="Jacques Offenbach">Offenbach</a> operettas, including <i><a href="/wiki/La_Grande-Duchesse_de_G%C3%A9rolstein" title="La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein">La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/La_Vie_parisienne_(operetta)" title="La Vie parisienne (operetta)">La Vie parisienne</a></i>, <i>Fleur de Thé</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_de_Brabant" title="Geneviève de Brabant">Geneviève de Brabant</a></i>. </p><p>His most ambitious compositional effort was <i>Hiawatha</i> based on <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>'s poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha" title="The Song of Hiawatha">The Song of Hiawatha</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pic_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subtitled "an Indian Symphony," this was a work symphonic in proportions with vocal soloists and a part for narrator. It was first performed by the Mendelsson Union with soloists Mrs. I.I. Harwood (who alternated between the two female roles of Nokomis and Minnehaha), Harrison Millard (Hiawatha), J. Q. Wetherbee (who sang the Great Spirit and the Arrow-Maker)<sup id="cite_ref-Pisani_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pisani-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with recitations by the composer's wife Matilda Heron, on 21 February 1859 at the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Theatre">Boston Theatre</a> in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was performed in New York shortly thereafter. <i>Hiawatha</i> had its London premiere on February 11, 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He stayed at Wallack's Theatre throughout the 1860s.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also worked for the <a href="/wiki/Winter_Garden_Theatre" title="Winter Garden Theatre">Winter Garden Theatre</a>. After it burnt down in 1867, he worked for Daly's <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Theatre" title="Fifth Avenue Theatre">Fifth Avenue Theatre</a>. There he composed and conducted incidental music for the stage productions <i>The Hurricane</i>, <i>Divorce</i>, <i>Frou-Frou</i>, <i>Man and Wife</i>, and <i>Fernande</i>. </p><p>Sometime in the 1870s he moved to London where he was engaged by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Miller_(actor)" title="Henry Miller (actor)">Henry Miller</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He composed incidental music for all of Miller's first successes. When Miller came to New York, Stoepel found that Miller was still using his music, so he filed a suit against him and settled for $2,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1880–81 season he was musical director of the Adelphi Theatre in London.<sup id="cite_ref-pic_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in London he wrote an opera called <i>Aldershot</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-mt_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 1884 he became deaf, and apparently moved back to New York. At the time of his death he was working on two more operas, <i>Unita</i> and <i>The Mahdi</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-mt_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Musical Times</i> obituary mentions that at once time he amassed a fortune of £20,000, but lost £12,000 during a real estate panic in New York. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1857 he married the actress <a href="/wiki/Matilda_Heron" title="Matilda Heron">Matilda Heron</a>. Stoepel and Heron separated in 1869. They had one child, Helen Wallace Stoepel, born in 1863, better known as <a href="/wiki/Bijou_Heron" title="Bijou Heron">Bijou Heron</a>, who became an actress herself. Bijou married Stoepel's employer, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Miller_(actor)" title="Henry Miller (actor)">Henry Miller</a>, and had three children with him, including theatrical producer <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Miller" title="Gilbert Miller">Gilbert Miller</a>. </p><p>At the end of his life, Stoepel had been living at 40 West 24th Street. He died at his daughter's house, 70 West 37th Street, on 1 October 1887.<sup id="cite_ref-Timesobit_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_works">List of works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: List of works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg/220px-Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg/330px-Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg/440px-Stoepel-US_Army_Calls-Sheet_music.jpg 2x" data-file-width="772" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Cover of the sheet music for Stoepel's 1862 military <a href="/wiki/Quadrille" title="Quadrille">quadrille</a>, "U.S. Army Calls"</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operas">Operas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Operas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Aldershot</i></li> <li><i>Charlemagne</i></li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">La sentinelle perdu</i></span></li> <li><i>Indiana</i></li> <li><i>The Mahdi</i></li> <li><i>The False Prophet</i>, libretto by J. Armoy Knox and Chas. M. Snyder. (1887)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Songs">Songs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Smiles of a summer night</i></li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Toujours!</i></span></li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Le soldat mourant</i></span> (1844) song; translated into English by <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Wrey_Mould" title="Jacob Wrey Mould">Jacob Wrey Mould</a> as <i>The dying soldier</i></li> <li><i>Near thee, near thee</i> (1854)</li> <li><i>Serenade</i> (1856)</li> <li><i>The old clock on the stairs</i> (1874) words by Longfellow</li> <li><i>Safe from the wreck!</i> (1880) words by T. Hay Campbell</li> <li><i>La Caridad' (1840–49) Rendered into English by J.W. Mould from the French of A. Marcien</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Works_for_piano">Works for piano</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Works for piano"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Mazurka on Meyerbeer's opera <i>Le pardon de Ploërmel</i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Dinorah" title="Dinorah">Dinorah</a></i>)</li> <li>Polka <i>Summer Night in the Woods</i></li> <li><i>Imperial Green Seal Galop</i></li> <li>Selection, on <a href="/wiki/Donizetti" class="mw-redirect" title="Donizetti">Donizetti</a>'s Grand Opera <i>Les martyrs</i> (<span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it"><a href="/wiki/Poliuto" title="Poliuto">Poliuto</a></i></span>)</li> <li><i>The Quadrille of All Nations</i></li> <li><i>Les bluets</i> (1844)</li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Les lilas</i></span> (1844)</li> <li><i>The Sutherland Polka</i> (1844)</li> <li><i>The Cellarius Polkas</i> (1845)</li> <li><i>Souvenirs de bohême</i> (1845)</li> <li><i>The Timbrel Waltz</i> (1846)</li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Chant national hongrois</i></span> (1850s)</li> <li><i>The Witches in Macbeth</i> (1850)</li> <li><i>The Marco Spada Polka</i> (1853) quadrilles based on <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Auber" title="Daniel Auber">Daniel Auber</a>'s opera of the same name</li> <li><i>Camille mazurka</i> (1856) "as played at the New Orleans Gaiety Theatre"<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Fairy Star schottisch</i> (1856)</li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Première rencontre: nocturne pour piano</i></span> (1857)</li> <li><i>The Lester Wallack Polka</i> (1862)</li> <li><i>U.S. Army Calls</i> (1862) quadrilles</li> <li><i>Jean Hosmer Polka</i> (1865)</li> <li><i>Reminiscences of Leah</i> (1868)</li> <li><i>Frou Frou Waltz</i> (1870)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incidental_music_and_other_works">Incidental music and other works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Incidental music and other works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Ruling Passion</i> (Wallack's Theatre, 1859)</li> <li><i>The Romance of a Poor Young Man</i> (Wallack's Theatre, 1860)</li> <li><i>The Duke's Motto</i> (<a href="/wiki/Niblo%27s_Garden" title="Niblo's Garden">Niblo's Garden</a>, 1863)</li> <li><i>Columbus Reconstructed</i> (Winter Garden, 1866)</li> <li><i>The Merchant of Venice</i> (revival with <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Booth" title="Edwin Booth">Edwin Booth</a>)</li> <li><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Le roi carotte</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Pike%27s_Opera_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Pike's Opera House">Grand Opera House</a>, Manhattan, 1872)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Stoepel&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Timesobit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Timesobit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Timesobit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Timesobit_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"An Old Musician Dead," <i>New York Times</i>, October 2, 1887. Much of the biographical information in this article comes from this obituary.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mw-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mw_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mw_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Stöpel, <i>Musical World</i> 24, no. 32 (August 11, 1849), p. 497.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pisani-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Pisani_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pisani_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Pisani, p. 51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Emilio Sala, Il valzer delle camelie: echi di Parigi nella Traviata (Torino: EDT, 2008), p. 32, 148. The other composers were Alphonse Varney and Sylvain Mangeant.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mt-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mt_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mt_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mt_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Obituary, <i>Musical Times</i>, p. 676.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>New York Times</i>, July 14, 1856, p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pisani,p. 45–85. Pisani has also written a book-length study of Stoepel, as yet unpublished.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pic-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pic_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pic_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/18347">Robert Stoepel</a> picturehistory.com.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>New York Times</i>, February 21, 1859, p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pisani, p. 57.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Deane L. Root, <i>American popular stage music 1860-1880</i>, p. 45.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In the 1881 United Kingdom Census he is listed as living at 11 Colville Square, Kensington Town, staying with William & Edith Every; he gave his age as 55-year-old; his daughter Helene was 17 years old.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ploughloomanvil09phil"><i>The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil</i></a> (1856). "Book Notices, etc.". Vol. 9, pp. 124–125</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <dl><dt>Sources</dt></dl> <ul><li>Pisani, Michael V. "Hiawatha: Longfellow, Robert Stoepel, and an Early Musical Setting of Hiawatha (1859)". <i>American Music</i> 16, no. 1 (Spring 1998): pp. 45–85.</li> <li>Root, Deane L. <i>American Popular Stage Music 1860-1880</i>. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981.</li> <li>(unsigned obituary), Obituary: Robert Auguste Stoepel, <i>Musical Times</i> 28, no. 537 (November 1, 1887): p. 676.</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output 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