Richard Langham Smith

Richard Langham Smith ( born September 10, 1947 in Barnes, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames ) is an English musicologist.

Life and work

Smith was a student of Wilfrid Mellers (1914-2008) and Edward Lockspeiser (1905-1973) and studied musicology at the University of York. At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, he was educated at the harpsichord; specifically the manner of performance of Baroque music.

After successful completion was entrusted Smith at Lancaster University as a lecturer; later he moved to the City University London. He then accepted a position at the University of Exeter and later moved to the Open University in Milton Keynes.

Between September 2008 and July 2010, Smith led the Graduate School at the Royal College of Music ( RCM) in London and taught from the fall of 2011 and conducted research at RCM Smith again.

Works (selection)

As author

  • Debussy and the art of the cinema. In: Music and letters, Vol 54 (1973 ), pp. 61-70, ISSN 1477-4631.
  • Ravel 's operatic spectacles. " L' heure et l' enfant". In: Deborah Mawer (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ravel. CUP, New York 2000, ISBN 0-521-64026-1.
  • Claude Debussy. Pelléas et Mélisande. CUP, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-30714-7 (along with Roger Nichols ).
  • This is a recording. Listening with a purpose. Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1986 ( together with Barbara Fowler Swartz ).

As editor

  • Debussy Studies. CUP, Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-46090-5.
  • French music since Berlioz. Ashgate Books, Aldershot 2006, ISBN 0-7546-0282-6.
  • English
  • Musicologist
  • Born in 1947
  • Man
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