Francis George Scott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrancis George Scott
British composer
Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1880
Place of Birth: Hawick, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 06-Nov-1958
Profession: composer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Francis George Scott
- Francis George Scott (25 January 1880 – 6 November 1958) was a Scottish composer. Born at 6 Oliver Crescent, Hawick, Roxburghshire, he was the son of a supplier of mill-engineering parts.
- Educated at Hawick, and at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, he studied composition under Jean Roger-Ducasse.
- In 1925, he became Lecturer in Music at Jordanhill Training College for Teachers, Glasgow, a post he held for more than twenty-five years.
- He wrote more than three hundred songs, including many settings of Hugh MacDiarmid, William Dunbar, William Soutar and Robert Burns's poems.
- MacDiarmid stated in an essay that his key long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle could not have been completed without Scott's help. The Anglo-Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson has transcribed several of Scott's works for piano.Scott is often associated with the Scottish Renaissance.
- His daughter, Lillias, married the Scottish composer Erik Chisholm.
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