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 graduated from Yale University in 1889 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then studied composition with Dudley Buch and organ student with Harry Rowe Shelley in New York City . From 1891 to 1893 he studied in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik with Woldemar Bargiel and Otis Boise . He worked as a music teacher in Salem until 1896 and in Trenton from 1898 to 1903 . He then became a professor of organ , music theory and history at the University of Kansas .
In addition to three operas , an incidental music, and chamber music and choral works , he created several compositions for orchestra in which he processed motifs from Indian music.
Works
- Kalopin , opera
- The Sun Bride: A Pueblo Indian Opera
- A Carolina Legend , symphonic poem
- East and West , orchestral suite
- Autumn night , orchestral piece
- Indian hunting dance , orchestral piece
- Sioux Flute Serenade
- Two Indian dances
- Daughter of the witch
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| SURNAME | Skilton, Charles Sanford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northampton , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1941 |
| Place of death | Lawrence , Kansas |