Timothy Mather Spelman
Timothy Mather Spelman (born January 21, 1891 in New York City , † August 21, 1970 in Florence ) was an American composer.
Life
Spelman studied after attending the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn from 1909 to 1913 at Harvard University with W. R. Spalding and Edward Burlingame Hill . With an Elkan Naumburg Fellowship , he continued his education with Walter Courvoisier at the Munich Conservatory until the outbreak of World War I.
He returned to New York, where he composed and gave lectures on music theory and history. It emerged u. a. the operas Snowdrop (premier Brooklyn, 1911) and The Romance of the Rose (premier Boston, 1913). In 1915 he married the poet Leolyn Louise Everett .
From 1917 Spelman was briefly instructor for musicians at the War Ministry before he moved with his wife to Florence in 1919, which remained his home until the eve of the Second World War . He traveled from here u. a. to France, Algeria and Egypt, and here the operas The Sea Rovers (1928) and The Sunken City (1930) were written.
From the mid-1930s, the Spelmans lived in Oberhofen in Switzerland, Harrison / New York and Dublin / New Hampshire. In 1947 they returned to Florence, where Timothy Spelman died in 1970 and his wife in 1971.
Works
- Snowdrop , Opera, WP 1911
- The Romance of the Rose Opera, WP 1913
- The Sea Rovers , Opera, 1928
- The Sunken City , Opera, 1930
- The Courtship of Miles Standish , Opera, 1943
- Jamboree , 1945
- String Quartet , 1953
- Oboe Concerto , 1954
source
- Spelman Papers Johns Hopkins University - The Sheridan Libraries
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spelman, Timothy Mather |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1970 |
| Place of death | Florence |