[7] Also on 7 April 1893, Höpner took part in a performance evening of the Tonkünstler-Verein zu Dresden and together with his colleague from the conservatory and organist of the Frauenkirche Paul Janssen played Mozart's "Sonata in E-flat Major Quartet for Two Pianos".
In the school year 1884/85, eight pupils attended his lessons in the special subject of music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber.
[14] At the beginning of 1904, the German-language American newspaper Indiana Tribüne reported from the villa district of Dresden Oberloschwitz [de] that "after a long suffering, Robert Emil Höpner, music director and organist (ret.)
[15] The newspaper Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten had already informed on 23 December 1903 that the royal music director, organist Höpner in Loschwitz[16] died, highlighting his longstanding ties with the Dresden Conservatory as well as the Kreuzkirche.
The son Robert Paul Höpner[18] born in 1892 and for decades (since 1914) organist as well as cantor at the Lukaskirche,[19] arranged for his sister Margarethe (1893–1962) to be commemorated on their parents' gravestone, especially because of her devotion to duty.