Biography

Carlisle Sessions 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 living in the American South. His best known opera, "Susannah" (1955), is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is written for a Southern dialect.
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He was a professor at Florida State University and the University of Houston.

He attended Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and then Syracuse University, where he received a bachelor's and a master's degree in music.

In addition to opera, he composed song and choral cycles, a piano sonata, and a book of études, as well as symphonic works.