b. 1850d. 1894

Robert Louis Stevenson


Robert Louis Stevenson
A Scottish writer whose poetry was popular among American song composers, Stevenson is best known for his fantasy novel Treasure Island. Photo: Robert Louis Stevenson, public domain

About

Stevenson’s poetry and texts have been set by countless Americans, from John Alden Carpenter’s “Looking-Glass River” to Henry F. Gilbert’s “Pirate Song” and from Sidney Homer’s song cycle Six Songs from ‘Underwoods’ to Richard Hundley’s “For Your Delight.”

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Records

2012

The Opera America Songbook–Volume 1

Mark Campbell, Richard Danielpour, Daron Aric Hagen, Lowell Liebermann, Amy Lowell, John Musto, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson

Books

A Child’s Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sheet Music