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Clara H. Scott

Clara H. Scott (December 3, 1841 – June 21, 1897 ), née Fiske, was an American composer, hymnwriter and publisher. Along with Anna Bartlett Warner, Phoebe Palmer, and Fanny Crosby, Scott was among a

Clara H. Scott (December 3, 1841 – June 21, 1897 ), née Fiske, was an American composer, hymnwriter and publisher. Along with Anna Bartlett Warner, Phoebe Palmer, and Fanny Crosby, Scott was among a wave of late 19th century women gospel poets. She was the first woman to publish a volume of anthems, the Royal Anthem Book, in 1882. Scott was also well known for her hymn, Open My Eyes, That I May See, written in 1895. The hymn was inspired by Psalm 119, verse 18. She died in 1897 after being thrown from her carriage by a spooked horse. References External links *Free scores at the Mutopia Project *Scott, Clara at Hymnary.org

Era
Romantic
Lived
1841–1897
From
United States
Born in
Elk Grove Village · died Dubuque
Known as
composer, hymnwriter, publisher

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.