Scorer Henry cuts a tragic figure (5)
I believe the answer is:
lehar
'scorer' is the definition.
(Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar)
'henry cuts a tragic figure' is the wordplay.
'henry' becomes 'H' (symbol for the unit of electrical inductance).
'cuts' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters cut their way into other letters).
'a tragic figure' becomes 'lear' (from Shakespeare's King Lear).
'h' put inside 'lear' is 'LEHAR'.
(Other definitions for lehar that I've seen before include "Operettist" , "Austrian of note" , "He scored" , "Franz . . . . . composed 'The Merry Widow'" , "Viennese composer" .)