Clara H. Scott

Life

Born: 1841

Died: 1897

Biography

Clara H. Scott was born Clara H. Jones in Elk Grove, Illinois. At age 15, she attended the first Music Institute held in Chicago by C. M. Cady. By age 19, she became a music teacher at the Ladies’ Seminary, Lyons, Iowa. She married Henry Clay Scott in 1861 in Iowa. She died in Dubuque, Iowa, when she was thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse. She composed many piano pieces, songs for choral education, and many hymns. She published the “Royal Anthem Book,” the first volume of anthems published by a woman. Her most well-known composition is the hymn “Open my eyes, that I may see.”

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List of choral works

Sacred works

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Secular works

• Come again with singing
• Our barque upon the stream

 
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Publications

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