As well as writing orchestral, solo and chamber music and giving public concerts, he also worked for the Swedish Film industry.
[2] He studied piano with Richard Andersson and attended the Royal College of Music, Stockholm from 1915 to 1918 where he learnt composition and counterpoint with Harald Fryklöf.
[1] The unusual number of his compositions featuring the viola may be related to the fact that his brother, an engineer, was a lifelong enthusiastic player of the instrument.
[2] Sköld was the author of the first original music composed in the auxiliary language Occidental; in 1934 he wrote two pieces, Du canzones,[8] for three-part female choir and piano to words by Czech poet Jaroslav Podobsky.
[10] Sköld died in 1992 in Ingarö, Värmdö municipality, Sweden,[5] leaving his widow Olga, his son Gunnar and daughter-in-law Solveig, and his grandson.