Fannie Charles Dillon’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American composer
Was Musician 
Educator 
Composer 
Pianist 
Music educator 
From United States of America 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender female
Birth 16 March 1881, Denver
Death 21 February 1974, Altadena
(aged 92 years)

Fannie Charles Dillon (March 16, 1881 – February 21, 1947) was an American pianist, music educator and composer.

Life

Fannie Charles Dillon was born in Denver, Colorado. She moved with her family to Long Beach, California in 1890, and studied composition with Heinrich Urban, Hugo Kaun and Rubin Goldmark, and piano with Leopold Godowsky in Berlin.

After completing her studies, Dillon worked as a pianist, teacher, performer and composer in Los Angeles. She taught at Pomona College from 1910 to 1913 and in the Los Angeles high school system from 1918 to 1941. She founded Woodland Theater at Fawnskin, Big Bear Lake, California, in 1924 and served as its general manager from 1926 to 1929. She married Cypriot theater actor James Christo. Dillon died in Altadena, California. Her papers are stored by the UCLA library.

As a composer, Dillon was known for adapting bird calls into her scores. While she was teaching at Los Angeles High School in the late 1920s, future composer John Cage was among her students.

Works

Dillon composed for piano, voice, orchestra and chamber ensemble, as well as for outdoor dramas. Selected works include:

  • Nevertheless–Old Glory, drama
  • The desert calls, drama
  • Tahquitz, drama
  • Celebration of Victory, for orchestra
  • The Cloud, for orchestra
  • A Letter from the Southland: Mission Garden
  • The Alps
  • Chinese Symphonic Suite
  • Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. Richards Rosen Press, Inc. 1978. 
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