Helen Camille Stanley

Helen Camille Stanley Hartmeyer Gatlin (6 April 1930 – 16 December 2021) was an American composer, pianist, and violist who began working with electronic and microtonal music in the 1960s. She composed under the name Helen Camille Stanley. Stanley was born in Tampa, Florida, to Lucy Gage Crehore and Edward Stanley. She married John P. Hartmeyer in 1950. They had one daughter (Helen Marjorie), then divorced in early 1965. Later that year, Stanley married Richard Denby Gatlin. Stanley earned a B. Mus. from Cincinnati Conservatory in 1951; a graduate fellowship and M. Mus from Florida State University in 1954; and a B.S. from Muskingum College (Ohio) in 1961. Her teachers included Hans Barth and Ernst von Dohnányi. She died on December 16, 2021, at the age of 91 in Jacksonville, Florida. Stanley composed electronic music and also experimented with microtonal music. Her compositions include: Ballet *Birthday of the Infants Chamber *Brass Quartet *Symphony No. 1 *“The Isle” References