Carlos Claudio Spies (March 26, 1925 – April 2, 2020) was a Chilean American composer.
Erich Kleiber and Fritz Busch were mentors to Spies at an early age.
"[1] He graduated in June 1950, and received the John K. Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took him to Paris, where he spent a year composing.
Another Stravinsky work whose premiere Spies helped bring to fruition was Requiem Canticles, at Princeton's McCarter Theatre in 1966.
Spies married Emmi-Vera Tobias in 1953 and had five children: Caterina, Michael, Tatiana, Leah, Susanna.