Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
Alicia Ann, Lady John Scott (née Spottiswoode; 24 June 1810 – 12 March 1900) was a Scottish songwriter and composer known chiefly for the tune, "Annie Laurie", to which the words of a 17th-century poet, William Douglas, were set.
Life[edit]
She was the oldest daughter of John Spottiswoode of Berwickshire and his wife Helen Wauchope of Niddrie-Mains. On 16 March 1836 she married Lord John Scott, a younger son of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch, and consequently was known as Lady John Scott.[1] Lord John Scott died in 1860. Under the will of her father, she resumed her maiden name Spottiswoode in 1866, and was sometimes known as Lady John Scott Spottiswoode.[2]
Lady John Scott was a champion of traditional Scots language, history and culture, her motto being 'Haud [hold] fast by the past'.[3] One of her best known works, "Annie Laurie," was published in 1838. Scott was born at Spottiswoode, Scottish Borders, in the former Berwickshire[4] and died there on 12 March 1900.[2]
Her compositions were published by Paterson & Roy,[5] and included:
Works[edit]
Selected works include:
- “Annie Laurie”[5]
- “Douglas Tender and True” [5]
- “Durisdeer”[5]
- “Etterick”[5]
- “Farewell to Thee”[5]
- “Foul Fords”[5]
- “Katherine Logie”[5]
- “Lammermoor”[5]
- “Loch Lomond”
- “Mother, Oh Sing Me to Rest”[5]
- “Shame on Ye, Gallants”[5]
- "Think on Me"[5]
- “When We First Rode Down to Ettrick”[5]
- “Within the Garden of My Heart”
- “Your Voices Are Not Hush'd”
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Preface by Margaret Warrender (March 1904) in Songs and Verses by Lady Jane Scott, Edinburgh: David Douglas, pp. i–lxiv
- ^ a b "Obituary – Lady John Scott Spottiswoode". The Times. No. 36089. London. 14 March 1900. p. 6.
- ^ "Lady John Scott". Scottish Poetry Library.
- ^ Rogers, Charles (1882). The Scottish minstrel: the songs of Scotland subsequent to Burns. Nimmo. p. 447. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
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External links[edit]
- Works by or about Alicia Ann Spottiswoode at Internet Archive
- Free scores by Alicia Ann Spottiswoode in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by Alicia Ann Spottiswoode at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Lady John Douglas Scott recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
- 1810 births
- 1900 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century Scottish writers
- 19th-century British women writers
- Scottish women classical composers
- Scottish classical composers
- Scottish women songwriters
- 19th-century Scottish composers
- 19th-century British women composers
- Wives of younger sons of peers