Marinus de Jong (14 January 1891, Oosterhout - 13 July 1984, Ekeren) was a Belgian composer and pianist of Dutch origin.
Marinus de Jong was born in Oosterhout (The Netherlands) to a working-class family with twelve children.
His musical talent became apparent early in his life: he was accepted into the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (Belgium) at the age of fifteen, where he was taught by Lodewijk Mortelmans and Emile Bosquet.
Afterwards he married Johanna Corthals, with whom he settled in Kapellenbos, and in 1926 De Jong traded in his Dutch nationality for a Belgian one.
It is a setting of a Dutch translation by Guido Gezelle of Henry Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha.