The British Musical Biography

[E] Smart, Sir George Thomas, conductor
and teacher, born at London, May 10, 1776.
He was a chorister in the Chapel Royal under
Ayrton, and studied the organ under Dupuis,
and composition under Arnold. Organist of
St. James' Chapel, Hampstead Road, London.
Knighted at Dublin by Lord Lieutenant,
after conducting a successful series of concerts.
1811. Original member of the Philharmonic
Society, 1813. Conductor of concerts of Phil-
harmonic Society, 1813-44. Conductor of the
Lenten oratorios. One of the organists of
the Chapel Royal, 1822. Connected with
Weber, who died at his house in 1826. Con-
ducted Mendelssohn's " St. Paul," at Liverpool
in 1836. Composer to the Chapel Royal, 1838.
Conducted all the principal provincial festivals
of his time, and arranged and conducted the
music at the coronations of William IV. and
Victoria. He died at Bedford Square, Lon-
don, February 23, 1867. One of the greatest
English conductors. He was a successful
vocal teacher, and gave instruction to Jenny
Lind and Sontag.

[W] Works. — A collection of glees and canons,
London [1863] ; Collection of sacred music, 2
vols.; Three sonatinas for pf. [1800]; An acrostic
elegy on. ..Viscount Horatio Nelson [1805];
The ffiolus Frigate, a favourite dance as per-
formed at Weymouth, 1804. Glees : Merry
Gypsies, Peace at home. Sighs, Squirrel,
Butterfly's Ball (canzonnettina), Garland, The
Wreck (on the loss of the Forfarshire), 1839,
etc. He edited Gibbons' " First set of
Madrigals," for the Musical Antiquarian
Society, 1841 ; works by Beethoven, etc.

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