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Margaret Vardell Sandresky
American composer
Margaret Ferrell Vardell Sandresky (born 28 April 1921) is an American composer, organist and teacher. She was still composing on her 100th birthday.[1][2][3] She was a founding member of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) as well as its first female contibutor.[4]
Biography
Sandresky was born in Macon, Georgia, to a musical family.
Her grandmother Linda Rumple Vardell founded the Conservatory of Music at Flora Macdonald College, where her grandfather Charles Graves Vardell also taught. Sandresky’s father Charles Gildersleeve Vardell was a composer and the dean of music at Salem College.
Her mother had a degree in piano and voice.[1][5][6]
Sandresky’s first organ lessons were with her father. She earned a BM from Salem College in 1942 and a MM from the Eastman School of Music in 1944, then got a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Hochschule für Musik in Fr