Robert Marcelonis

Robert Marcelonis (June 2, 1953 – March 30, 1995) was an American musician and artist based in Philadelphia.

Biography Robert Marcelonis had five sisters (Joan, Mary, Rosalie, Regina and Margaret) and two brothers (Frank and Joseph).

Marcelonis studied at Temple University and received a degree in music composition. He composed commemorative music for the canonization of John Neumann in 1977.

Marcelonis worked as a computer consultant until 1992, when he was diagnosed with AIDS. He quit work and began focussing on his musical career: he staged his early musical Fables, based on Aesop's Fables, at a community theatre in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. He then wrote the musical Copernicus over a four month period and staged it at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts to raise money for AIDS organizations.

Marcelonis died at his Germantown home on March 30, 1995.