Lewis Spratlan
American music academic
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- PhD Music Composition Princeton University
- Masters Music Composition Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Meriwether Lewis Spratlan Jr. was an American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Lewis Spratlan, recipient of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music and the Charles Ives Opera Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was born in 1940 in Miami, Florida. His music, often praised for its dramatic impact and vivid scoring, is performed regularly throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He held undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University, where he studied with Mel Powell and Gunther Schuller. From 1970 until his retirement in 2006 he served on the music faculty of Amherst College, and has also taught and conducted at Penn State University, Tanglewood, and the Yale Summer School of Music. He passed away at home on February 9, 2023, at the age of 82 in the company of his son, musician Daniel Spratlan.
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