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.
  • biography on www.tobias-broeker.de


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