Clement Scott
Birth Year: | 1841 |
Death Year: | 1904 |
Notes: | English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph and other journals, and a playwright, lyricist, translator and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century. He also wrote accounts of holiday tours around the British Isles and abroad. After a tour of New Zealand, he wrote the tune to the "Swiss Cradle Song", later adapted as "Now Is the Hour" and as "Haere Ra", the Māori farewell song, which white New Zealanders "mistakenly thought [to be] an old Maori folksong" |
Compositions:
Title | Alternate Title(s) |
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Haere Ra! | Good Bye |