Timothy Mather Spelman
Timothy Mather Spelman (January 21, 1891 – August 21, 1970) was an American composer; born in Brooklyn, New York, he was for many years resident in Italy, dying at his villa just outside Florence. He composed a fair amount of chamber music and some works for orchestra, as well as a number of operas. He also wrote many songs, mostly to texts by his wife, the poet Leolyn Spelman.
Spelman bequeathed his villa, and his papers, to The Johns Hopkins University; today the former is dedicated to the memory of Charles S. Singleton.
Spelman was descended from the same family as Cotton and Increase Mather.
Compositions
- Christ and the Blind Man, symphonic poem for orchestra
- Barbaresques, suite for orchestra
- Saints' Days, for orchestra (1925)
- The Sea-Rovers, opera (1928)
- Miles Standish, opera
- Symphony for orchestra
- Concerto for oboe and orchestra
- Piano sonata
- String quartet
- Litany of the Middle Ages, cantata
- Pervigilium Veneris, for chorus
See also
References
- Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
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