Henry Smart

Henry Smart

Henry Thomas Smart (26 October 1813 – 6 July 1879) was an English organist and composer.

Smart was born in London, a nephew of the conductor Sir George Smart. He studied first for the law, but soon gave this up for music. In 1831 he became organist of Blackburn parish church, where he wrote his first important work, a Reformation anthem; then of St Giles-without-Cripplegate; St Luke's, Old Street; and finally of St Pancras, in 1864, which last post he held at the time of his death, less than a month after receiving a government pension of £100 per annum.

Smart was highly rated as a composer by his English contemporaries, but is now remembered only by a few organists and choral singers. His many compositions for the organ were described as "effective and melodious, if not strikingly original" by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which also praised his part songs. His cantata "The Bride of Dunkerron" was written for the Birmingham Festival of 1864; the oratorio "Jacob" for Glasgow in 1873; and his opera "Bertha" was produced with some success at the Haymarket in 1855. His best known composition is now probably the hymn tune "Regent Square", commonly sung to the words "Light's abode, celestial Salem" or "Angels, from the realms of glory". His "Evening Service in B Flat" has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years.

In the last fifteen years of his life Smart was practically blind.

Literature

* William Spark, "Henry Smart" (London, 1881)

External links

*ChoralWiki

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