David Stanley Smith (composer)

David Stanley Smith ( born July 6, 1877 in Toledo, Ohio, † December 17 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American composer.

Smith graduated in 1895 with Horatio Parker at Yale University - where Charles Ives was one of his friends - and then became organist at the Center Church of New Haven. On a trip to Europe, he was a student of Ludwig Thuille in Munich, and Vincent d' Indy in Paris. In 1903 he returned to New Haven and became a music theory teacher and 1920 as the successor of Horatio Parker Dean of the School of Music and Head of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. From 1903 to 1946 he taught music at Yale.

He composed an opera ( Merrymount ), five symphonies, Orchesterrhapsodien and impressions, chamber music, choral music, anthems, song cycles and songs.