Lewis Spratlan

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Lewis Spratlan (b. 1940, Miami, USA) is an American composer and Professor of Music Emeritus at Amherst College. Spratlan joined the faculty at Amherst in 1970 and retired in 2006. Spratlan also conducted the Amherst College Orchestra for several years.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2000 for his one-act opera Life is a Dream. Although Spratlan wrote the opera in 1978, it was not premiered until a concert version of the second act was performed at Amherst College in January 2000.