Ishmail Spicer
American composer
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Ishmael (Ishmail) Spicer (1760–1832) was a publisher in Baltimore,[1] a teacher, and one of the first American composers.[2]
Ishmael Spicer was born in Bozrah, Connecticut. He founded the first singing school at the Court House in Baltimore in November 1789, basing the curriculum using a teaching system advocated by Andrew Adgate. Tuition was set at $2.50 per quarter and the school was successful for multiple years.
For a time the singing school was attended by John Cole.[3][4]
Publications
Philadelphia Harmony with Andrew Adgate, Philadelphia, 1789.
Spicer's Pocket Companion: or the young Mason's monitor, 1799 (printed by Andrew Wright in Northampton). [5]
