sentences:  His mother, Marie Boardman, was a contralto and pianist.His father, James Walter Spalding, and uncle, Hall-of-Fame baseball pitcher Albert Goodwin "Al" Spalding, created the A.G. Spalding sporting goods company.Spalding studied the violin privately in Manhattan, New York City and Florence, Italy, and at the conservatories in Paris and Bologna; the latter graduated him with honors when he was fourteen.