# Maria Lindsay

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{{Short description|English composer and songwriter}}
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'''Maria Lindsay Bliss''' (15 May 1827 – 3 April 1898) was an [English](/source/English_people) composer and songwriter. She was born in [Wimbledon](/source/Wimbledon%2C_London) and married the Reverend John Worthington Bliss in 1858. She was one of the first women to achieve commercial success as an English songwriter in the 19th century, obtaining an exclusive contract with publisher Robert Cocks in [London](/source/London). She died in [Betteshanger](/source/Betteshanger), [Kent](/source/Kent).<ref>{{cite book |title=Music lovers' cyclopedia: containing a pronouncing and defining|url=https://archive.org/details/musicloverscycl01hughgoog|author=Hughes, Rupert|year=1912}}<br />- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA283 |title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne |last1=Sadie |first2=Rhian |last2=Samuel |year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393034875|access-date=5 January 2011}}</ref>

==Works==
Lindsay composed sacred and popular songs, often using contemporary poetry as text. Selected works include:
*''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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lieder.net/lieder/l/lindsay.html|title=Composer: Maria Lindsay (fl. 1875)|access-date=5 January 2011}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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