Charles Sanford Skilton

Charles Sanford Skilton ( born August 16, 1868 in Northampton, Massachusetts, † March 12, 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas ) was an American composer and organist.

Life

Skilton completed a study at Yale University in 1889 with a Bachelor of Arts. After that, he was a composition student of Dudley book and organ student of Harry Rowe Shelley in New York City. From 1891 to 1893 he studied in Berlin at the Academy of Music in Woldemar Bargiel and Otis Boise. He worked until 1896 as a music teacher in Salem, from 1898 to 1903 in Trenton. He then became professor of organ, music theory and history at the University of Kansas.

In addition to three operas, incidental music, and a chamber music and choral works he created several compositions for orchestra, where he worked motifs of Indian music.

Works

  • Kalopin, opera
  • The Sun Bride: A Pueblo Indian Opera
  • A Carolina Legend, symphonic poem
  • East and West, Suite for Orchestra
  • Autumn night, orchestral piece
  • Native American hunting dance, orchestral piece
  • Sioux Flute Serenade
  • Two Indian Dances
  • Daughter of the witch
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • American composer
  • University teachers ( University of Kansas )
  • Classic organist
  • American musician
  • Born in 1868
  • Died in 1941
  • Man
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