Short Name: | Henry Thomas Smart |
Full Name: | Smart, Henry Thomas, 1813-1879 |
Birth Year: | 1813 |
Death Year: | 1879 |
Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known).
Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861).
Bert Polman
Tunes by Henry Thomas Smart (67)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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ASHGROVE | H. Smart (Composer) | 2 | |
Barnby's Hymnary, Tune 620 | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 2 | 55365 54211 253 |
BETHANY (Mason) | Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 1 | 32116 65132 32116 |
BETHESDA (Smart) | H. Smart (Composer) | 2 | |
BLACKBURN (Smart) | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 2 | |
[Chant] (Smart 55551) | H. Smart, 1813-70 (Composer) | 2 | 55551 72132 26643 |
[Chant] (Smart 53651) | H. Smart, 1813-70 (Composer) | 2 | 53651 76545 23145 |
CHEBAR | H. Smart (Composer) | 4 | 53143 65144 323 |
COLDREY | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 4 | 17156 65351 32117 |
COLEBROOK | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 3 | 34326 543 |
ETHNOL | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 1 | 51765 64534 51432 |
CORDE NATUS, NO. 2 (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 2 | 12354 66515 34562 |
BETHANY (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 125 | 36531 21765 13543 |
DESIRE (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 4 | 11432 51223 33456 |
DOXOLOGY (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 3 | |
EDINBURGH (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 3 | 15531 66551 17653 |
EVENTIDE (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 8 | |
EVERTON (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 39 | 34516 71545 31222 |
[Faint not, fear not, God is near thee] | Henry Smart (Composer) | 3 | 33536 55427 13542 |
FAITH (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 2 | 56651 76543 32154 |
GENOA (Smart) | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 4 | |
GORDON (Smart) | Henry Smart, 1813 - 79 (Composer) | 3 | 55513 46512 4323 |
TUNE 174 (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 5 | 53162 17143 25176 |
HEATHLANDS (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 64 | 51756 65423 45432 |
IRBY | Henry T. Smart (Composer) | 1 | 57111 71221 13533 |
[Chant] (Smart 53217) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 2 | 53217 32141 72112 |
KEARNS | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 3 | |
LANCASHIRE | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 445 | 55346 53114 56255 |
SICILIAN MARINERS | Henry Smart (Composer) | 1 | 56543 45654 35567 |
MARYTON | Henry P. Smart (Composer) | 1 | 33343 22255 43117 |
MISERICORDIA (Smart) | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 28 | 32143 66557 12314 |
MOREDUN | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 11 | 35234 56543 21543 |
MOSELEY (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 28 | 12346 56453 12531 |
NACHTLIED | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 43 | 33343 65123 25436 |
NEALE (Smart) | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 3 | |
NOMINA | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 4 | |
[Chant] (Smart 15654) | Henry Smart, 1813-79 (Composer) | 3 | 15654 34321 |
[Chant] (Smart 35717) | Henry Smart, 1813-70 (Composer) | 3 | 35717 61217 1 |
SOUTHAMPTON (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 2 | 55365 67123 17652 |
[Chant)] (Smart 53143) | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 18 | 53143 67125 56277 |
PALMS (Smart) | H. Smart (Composer) | 2 | |
PARADISE (Smart) | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 16 | 35321 17712 3453 |
PILGRIMS (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 133 | 35432 12343 25176 |
REGENT SQUARE (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 626 | 53153 21566 51432 |
REX GLORIAE (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 75 | 15123 43251 23432 |
ROXBURGH (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 2 | 51127 51234 43352 |
SALEM (Smart) | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 2 | |
REFUGE (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 6 | 32114 32543 26713 |
SERAPHIM (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 5 | 32436 54317 65676 |
SION (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 63 | 55321 51125 35532 |
SONG 67 | Henry Smart, 1813 - 1879 (Arranger) | 12 | 15345 66551 67761 |
SPIELBERG | Henry T. Smart (Composer) | 2 | 51534 51665 51321 |
ST. LEONARD (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 34 | 55365 67123 17652 |
ST. PANCRAS (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 15 | 17153 432 |
SUNDERLAND | Henry Thomas Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 5 | 53135 16515 42536 |
TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (Smart) | Hanry Smart (Composer) | 1 | |
[The Lord is my Shepherd, I never shall want] | Henry Smart (Composer) | 3 | 51345 53665 4445 |
THE SUN IS SINKING FAST (Smart) | Henry Smart (1812-1879) (Composer) | 3 | |
TRANSFIGURATION (Smart) | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 2 | |
TRISAGION (Smart) | Henry Thomas Smart (Composer) | 19 | 55653 21223 32154 |
TROY (Smart) | Henry Smart, 1813-1879 (Composer) | 2 | |
CUM NUBIBUS | Henry Smart, 1812-1879 (Composer) | 9 | 17153 43234 5123 |
VEXILLUM | Henry Smart (Composer) | 10 | 34551 53452 31235 |
[We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be the Lord] (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 3 | 55665 35443 45432 |
SMART (Smart) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 3 | 15135 43234 56233 |
[Why, most Highest, art Thou lying] (55651) | Henry Smart (Composer) | 1 | 55651 23453 21 |
[Zion stands with hills surrounded] | Henry Smart (Composer) | 2 |