Cora S. Briggs

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?