Discipline: Music Composition

Harold Meltzer

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2007, 2016

At MacDowell in 2016, Harold Meltzer (1966 - 2024) worked on music for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. His sextet "Brion" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Harold Meltzer worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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