Timothy Mather Spelman (b Brooklyn, NY, Jan 21, 1891; d Florence, Aug 21, 1970) was an American composer. He studied with Shelley in New York (1908), with Spalding and Hill at Harvard University (1909–13) and with Courvoisier at the Munich Conservatory (1913–15). On his return to the USA in 1915 he became assistant director of band musicians’ training in the War Department. In 1918 he went back to Europe with his wife, the poet Leolyn Louise Everett, and settled in Florence, where he remained for the rest of his life, with the exception of the period 1935–47, which he spent in New York. Spelman's music, most of it programmatic, blends elements of Italian Romanticism and French Impressionism. In 1920 he wrote his first opera, La magnifica. Set to a libretto by his wife, it is a tale of intrigue set in South America. The Spelmans collaborated on many songs and at least two other dramatic works: The Sea Rovers, a three-act opera strikingly reminiscent of the Boito-Verdi Otello, and Babakan, a one-act lyric comedy with an Arabian setting. Among his most significant works are Pervigilium veneris and the tone poem Assisi: the Great Pardon of St Francis from Saints' Days.

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