Maria Lindsay facts for kids

Maria Lindsay Bliss was an English composer and songwriter who lived from 1827 to 1898. She was born in Wimbledon, London. In 1858, she married John Worthington Bliss. Maria was one of the first women in England to become a very successful songwriter. She even signed a special contract with a publisher named Robert Cocks in London. She passed away in Betteshanger, Kent.

Her Music and Songs

Maria Lindsay wrote many different kinds of songs. Some were religious, and others were popular tunes of her time. She often used poems by famous writers as the words for her music. For example, she set poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Lord Alfred Tennyson to music.

Here are some of her well-known works:

• Absalom, 1868
• Excelsior (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 1854
• Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson), 1858
• A psalm of life (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Daybreak (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Excelsior (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Hymn of the Moravian nuns at Bethlehem at the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Stars of the summer night (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The bridge (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The old clock on the stairs (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The Owl and the Pussycat (Text: Edward Lear)
• The song of Love and Death (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
• Too late, too late! (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
• With many a curve (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)