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American organist & composer
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South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
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76 years
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Cora Skillings Briggs (13 May 1859, South Paris, Maine – 12 December 1935) was an American composer and organist. She studied harmony with Stephen A. Emery and piano and organ with Hermann Kotzschmar and E. W. Hanscom; performed as the organist for the First Congregational Church of her birthplace for forty-eight years. She wrote around eighty sacred Christian songs, the most famous one being Hold Thou My Hand. Her husband, George A. Briggs was a vocalist.
List of compositions
Some of the compositions are stored in Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women’s Song.
- Hold Thou My hand
- Song of Confidence
- What Would You Say, Dear?
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