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British composer
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.
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Spalding was born in
Blackheath, Kent , to Henry Spalding and his second wife Ellen. She was the youngest of eight children, with four half-siblings and three full siblings. Henry Spalding was a paper merchant.
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Spalding studied at the
Royal Academy of Music , where she passed the violin teacher exam in 1904.
[3] She also studied with
Leopold Auer at the
St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.
[4] After returning to England, she taught piano and violin privately and at
Bradfield College .
[5] From the 1940s she lived at Tyndrum, Pond Lane,
Churt in Surrey, where she died in 1969.
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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 .
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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.
[12] Her music was published by
Maurice Senart , with many of the song texts in both French and English versions.
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Selected works
Piano
Etude for the Left Hand (1919)
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Fantasie for piano (1958)
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Prelude (1919)
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Songs
Five Songs from Spencer's Amoretti (1950)
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'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)
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String Quartet No. 1 (1923)
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String Quartet No. 2 (1928)
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String Quartet No. 3
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String Quartet No. 4
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String Quartet No. 5 (1950)
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String Quartet No. 6
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Violin Sonata No. 1
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Violin Sonata No. 2 (1928)
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Violin Sonata No. 3 (1952)
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Orchestral
References
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"Eva Ruth Spalding 1882-1969" . www.unsungcomposers.com . Retrieved 19 January 2022 .
^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980).
Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice . Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall.
ISBN
0-8161-8498-4 .
OCLC
6815939 .
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The Musical Times . Novello. 1904.
^ Hill, Ralph (1946).
The Penguin Music Magazine . Penguin Books.
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b Cohen, Aaron I. (1987).
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers . Books & Music (USA).
ISBN
978-0-9617485-1-7 .
^ The Times , 30 June 1969, p. 10
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c Who's Who in Music 5th edition (1969), p. 294
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"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 .
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Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions . Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1925.
^ Whitman, Walt (1938).
Complete Poetry & Selected Prose and Letters . Nonesuch Press.
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c 'A New Quartet', in The Daily Telegraph , 26 April 1950, p. 6
^ Patterson, Donald L. (1999).
One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand . Greenwood Publishing Group.
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 .
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British Music Collection
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Radio Times , Issue 1605, 15 August 1954, p. 31
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"Margaret Kitchin: Concert pianist and champion of modern British composers" . The Independent . 30 June 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2022 .
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