Albert Spalding

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Albert Spalding

Albert Spalding (born August 15, 1888 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 26, 1953 in New York City ) was an American violin virtuoso and composer .

Life

The nephew of the baseball player Albert Goodwill Spalding received his violin training in 1895 and in 1902, at the age of 14, graduated from the Bologna Conservatory as a professor of music. He then studied for two years at the Conservatoire de Paris and also performed with great success as a violin virtuoso. He also took composition lessons from Antonio Scontrino and Juan Buitrago .

In 1905 he performed together with Camille Saint-Saëns in Florence , followed by concert tours through France and England. In 1908 he returned to the United States, where he again undertook concert tours, including with the New York Symphony Orchestra . In the course of twenty years he made over a hundred clay drum and recordings for Thomas Alva Edison . In the following years concert tours took him to Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

During the First World War he served as a US Army soldier in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. In the 1920s, in addition to his concert tours, he devoted himself particularly to the new medium of radio. During World War II, Spalding was a member of a psychological warfare division in Italy.

After 1945 he became a violin professor at Boston University and devoted himself increasingly to composition. He also wrote two books: the autobiography Rise to Follow (1943) and the historical novel A Fiddle, A Sword, And A Lady about Giuseppe Tartini .

In 1926 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Web links

Commons : Albert Spalding  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Albert Spalding. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 27, 2019 .