Eva Ruth Spalding

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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]

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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] One of the full siblings was Selma Nellie Spalding (1881-1965), later Lady Lennard.

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] In the 1920s she was sharing rooms and appearing in concerts with pianist composer Beatrice Mary Hall (1890-1961). [6] From the 1940s she lived at Tyndrum, Pond Lane, 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] It was described by critic Scott Goddard as "contemporary in sentiment, and not at all modern in manner". [14] Her music was published by Maurice Senart, with many of the song texts in both French and English versions. [1]

Selected works

Piano

Songs

Chamber

Orchestral

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  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ The Musical Times. Novello. 1904.
  4. ↑ Hill, Ralph (1946). The Penguin Music Magazine. Penguin Books.
  5. 1 2 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN   978-0-9617485-1-7.
  6. ↑ 'British Music Society', in The Woolwich Herald, 15 October 1920, p. 4
  7. ↑ The Times, 30 June 1969, p. 10
  8. 1 2 3 Who's Who in Music 5th edition (1969), p. 294
  9. ↑ "Eva Ruth Spalding (1882 - 1969) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1958). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  11. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1925.
  12. ↑ Whitman, Walt (1938). Complete Poetry & Selected Prose and Letters. Nonesuch Press.
  13. 1 2 3 'A New Quartet', in The Daily Telegraph, 26 April 1950, p. 6
  14. ↑ 'A new string quartet', London Daily News, 30 April 1952, p. 5
  15. ↑ Patterson, Donald L. (1999). One Handed: A Guide to Piano Music for One Hand. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-313-31179-6.
  16. ↑ 'Gifted Pianist Lacks Warmth', in The Daily Telegraph, 30 April 1958, p. 10
  17. ↑ British Music Information Centre (1972). Instrumental Solos and Duos by Living British Composers.
  18. 1 2 British Music Collection
  19. ↑ Radio Times, Issue 1605, 15 August 1954, p. 31
  20. 1 2 "Margaret Kitchin: Concert pianist and champion of modern British composers". The Independent. 30 June 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
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