Hiawatha (lived 15th century)
16th-century American Indian teacher and Onondaga chieftain. He is said to have welded the Five Nations (later joined by a sixth) of the Iroquois into the league of the Long House, as the confederacy was known in what is now upper New York State. The hero of H W Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an unrelated fictitious character.
Hiawatha
| Three cantatas for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a setting of parts of Longfellow's poem: 1. Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, 2. The Death of Minnehaha, 3. Hiawatha's Departure. They were first performed as a whole in London, England, on 22 March 1900. |
