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Lewis Spratlan
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American music academic (1940–2023)
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Lewis Spratlan (1940–2023) was an American composer, conductor, and university teacher. Born in Miami, he was educated at Yale University and served as a professor at Amherst College, where he held the title of emeritus. His work primarily encompassed the genres of opera and classical music, often categorized as contemporary or modern classical.
Spratlan received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection. A male artist, he was a citizen of the United States.
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Vinony catalogs Lewis Spratlan in its Pulitzer Prize collection (1,659 entries).
Vinony's link graph records 180 inbound references to Lewis Spratlan, and connects out to Quincy Porter, International Standard Book Number and Harvard University.
Vinony files it under 1940 births, 2023 deaths and American classical composers.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 2023
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 290
- Total plays
- 2,702
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Meriwether Lewis Spratlan Jr. (September 5, 1940 – February 9, 2023)[1][2] was an American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lewis+Spratlan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lewis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Miami
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Employer
- Amherst College
- Academic degree
- professor
- Genre
- classical music
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- date of birth
- 1940-09-05
- date of death
- 2023-02-09
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