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SMART, HENRY (1813–1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 250 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMART, See also:HENRY (1813–1879) , See also:English organist and musical composer, See also:born in See also:London on the 26th of See also:October 1813, was a See also:nephew of See also:Sir See also:George Smart (q.v.). He studied first for the See also:law, but soon gave this up for See also:music. In 1831 he became organist of See also:Blackburn See also:parish See also:church, where he wrote his first important See also:work, a See also:Reformation See also:anthem; then of St See also:Giles's, Cripplegate; St See also:Luke's, Old See also:Street; and finally of St Pancras, in 1864, which last See also:post he held at the See also:time of his See also:death on the 6th of See also:July 1879, less than a See also:month after receiving a See also:government See also:pension of £See also:loo per annum. Although Smart is now known chiefly by his compositions for the See also:organ, which are numerous, effective and melodious, if not strikingly See also:original, he wrote many vocal See also:works, including some of the best specimens of See also:modern See also:part songs. His See also:cantata, The See also:Bride of Dunkerron, was written for the See also:Birmingham festival of 1864; See also:Jacob for See also:Glasgow, in 1873; and his See also:opera, Bertha, was produced with some success at the Haymarket in 1855. In the last fifteen years of his See also:life Smart was practically See also:blind.

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