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Eva Ruth Spalding (December 19, 1883 - March 1969) was a British composer, violin and piano teacher who wrote six string quartets, solo piano music and songs.[1] [2]
Spalding was born in Blackheath, Kent , to Henry Spalding (a paper merchant) and his second wife Ellen. She was the youngest of eight children, with four half-siblings and three full siblings.[1]
Spalding studied at the Royal Academy of Music , where she passed the violin teacher exam in 1904.[3] Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.[4] Bradfield College .[5] [6] Churt in Surrey, where she died in 1969.[7] [8]
She set texts by the following poets to music: Léon Bazalgette, William Blake , Phineas Fletcher , Paul Fort , Fernand Gregh , George Herbert , Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (as Jean Moréas ), Edmund Spenser , Charles van Lerberghe , Clara Walsh, and Walt Whitman .[5] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Spalding composed six string quartets, the first in the early 1920s. No. 5 was performed by the Aleph String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall on Tuesday 25 April 1950, along with the Five Songs from Spencer's Amoretti , sung by tenor Frederick Fuller.[13] [14] Maurice Senart , with many of the song texts in both French and English versions.[1]
Selected works [ edit ]
Piano
Etude for the Left Hand (1919)[15]
Fantasie for piano (1958)[16]
Prelude (1919)[1]
Songs
Five Songs from Spencer's Amoretti (1950)[13]
'Mort! le vent pleure autour du monde' (1925, text Paul Fort)
'Passing of the Spring' (1924, text Clara Walsh)
'Soupirs' (1920, text: Clara Walsh)
Three Melodies for voice and piano or string quartet (1929)
'The Lamb' (text: William Blake)
'The Litany' (text: Phineus Fletcher)
'Easter Words' (text: George Herbert)
Three Melodies for voice and piano (1919, texts: Walt Whitman)
'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night'
'A Clear Midnight'
'The Lost Invocation'
'Vers le soleil s'en vont ensemble' (1923, text: C.von Leberghe)
Chamber
Poeme (violin and piano)[17]
String Quartet No. 1 (1923)[18]
String Quartet No. 2 (1928)[18]
String Quartet No. 3[1]
String Quartet No. 4[1]
String Quartet No. 5 (1950)[19] [13]
String Quartet No. 6[8]
Violin Sonata No. 1[1]
Violin Sonata No. 2 (1928)[20]
Violin Sonata No. 3 (1952)[20]
Orchestral
References [ edit ]
^ The Musical Times
^ Hill, Ralph (1946). The Penguin Music Magazine
^ a b Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers ISBN 978-0-9617485-1-7
^ 'British Music Society', in The Woolwich Herald , 15 October 1920, p. 4
^ The Times , 30 June 1969, p. 10
^ a b c Who's Who in Music 5th edition (1969), p. 294
^ "Eva Ruth Spalding (1882 - 1969) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive" . www.lieder.net . Retrieved 19 January 2022 .
^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1958). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series
^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions
^ Whitman, Walt (1938). Complete Poetry & Selected Prose and Letters
^ a b c 'A New Quartet', in The Daily Telegraph , 26 April 1950, p. 6
^ 'A new string quartet', London Daily News , 30 April 1952, p. 5
^ Patterson, Donald L. (1999). One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand ISBN 978-0-313-31179-6
^ 'Gifted Pianist Lacks Warmth', in The Daily Telegraph , 30 April 1958, p. 10
^ British Music Information Centre (1972). Instrumental Solos and Duos by Living British Composers
^ a b British Music Collection
^ Radio Times , Issue 1605, 15 August 1954, p. 31
^ a b "Margaret Kitchin: Concert pianist and champion of modern British composers" . The Independent . 30 June 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2022 .
External links [ edit ]
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