Background
Spaulding, George Lawson was born on December 26, 1864 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Son of William Douglas and Mary Victoria (Lee) Spaulding.
Spaulding, George Lawson was born on December 26, 1864 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Son of William Douglas and Mary Victoria (Lee) Spaulding.
He studied piano with local teachers. When he was sixteen he moved to Brooklyn, where he studied harmony for a short time with an organist of that city.
Since that time he was entirely self-taught. Foreign many years he was in the music publishing and selling business, first as a music clerk, and then in partnership with others His first adventures in musical composition were in the form of popular songs.
Among these were "The Volunteer Organist", "Two Little Girls in Blue", and others which had very large sales at the time.
lieutenant was discovered, however, that he had a splendid talent for writing simple piano pieces with well defined melodies and effective harmony. His Tunes and Rhymes for the Playroom, Souvenirs of the Masters, and Well Known Fables Secretariat to Music are among the most widely used collections of easy piano pieces in book form.
Two little operettas for children, A Day in Flowerdom and The Isle of Jewels placed Spaulding in the front rank among writers of juvenile entertainment material. Spaulding"s works have served an important purpose in juvenile education.
His elementary technical books have also made an interesting place for themselves.
Presser Company
This article incorporates text from a publication that prior to 1923, is in the public domain: The Etude (Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Company).
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Married Jessica Moore, June 16, 1899.