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George Smart
1776 - 1867 Person Name: Sir George Thomas Smart Composer of "WILTSHIRE" in Small Church Music
George Smart
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: H. Smart Composer of "SMART" in Gloria Deo 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).
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Henry Thomas Smart
Helen Sims Smaw
b. 1935 Author of "We Worship Round This Table" in Baptist Hymnal 1991
Helen Sims Smaw
Oluf H. Smeby
1851 - 1929 Person Name: O. H. Smeby, 1851-1929 Translator of "O Holy Spirit, Grant Us Grace" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
Oluf H. Smeby
Bedřich Smetana
1824 - 1884 Composer of "[O God, do not remain silent]" in Christian Worship
Bedřich Smetana
James Smetham
1821 - 1889 Person Name: James Smetham, 1821-89 Author of "While ebbing nature grieves" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Smetham, James, son of a Wesleyan minister, born at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, Sept. 9, 1821, and for some time teacher of drawing at the Wesleyan Normal College, Westminster. Failing to command success as a painter, his mind gave way in 1877, and he died Feb. 5, 1889. His Letters were published in 1891, and The Literary Works of James Smetham, 1893. His hymn "While ebbing nature grieves" (Old Age) is unworthy of the position given to it in the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
James Smetham
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