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Carlisle Floyd

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Also known as Carlisle S Floyd, Carlisle S. Floyd, Carlisle Sessions Floyd

American composer (1926–2021)

Person · Open Library

Works
24

Top works

  • Prince of Players
  • Pilgrimage. Solo cantata on biblical texts for low voice and piano (or orchestra),etc. < Piano-vocal score. >
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Susannah
  • Susannah

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Type
Group
Origin
England
Active from
1965
Active to
2014
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Carlisle Floyd (June 11, 1926 – September 30, 2021) was an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect. In 1943, Floyd entered Converse College, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and studied piano under Ernst Bacon. When Bacon accepted a position at Syracuse University <a hre

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Latta
Place of death
Tallahassee
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
English language
Student of
Ernst Bacon
Genre
opera
Image
Carlisle Floyd 2004.jpg
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name in native language
Carlisle Floyd
date of birth
1926-06-11
Commons category
Carlisle Floyd
date of death
2021-09-30
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