George Thomas Smart

George Thomas Smart ( born May 10, 1776 in London, † February 23, 1867 ibid ) was an English conductor, organist, violinist and composer.

Life

Smart was one of the three sons of music publisher George Smart. Like his siblings, Charles Frederick and Henry Smart, he embarked on a musical career. He was a chorister of the Chapel Royal under the direction of Edmund Ayrton, took organ lessons with Thomas Sanders Dupuis and studied composition with Samuel Arnold.

In 1791 he became organist at St. James 's Chapel. He also took part as a violinist at the subscription concerts of Johann Peter Salomon part and acted as organ and singing teacher. After he had in 1811 conducted a number of successful concerts in Dublin, he was raised to the peerage. In 1822 he became organist of the Chapel Royal. Between 1823 and 1840 he worked as a conductor at music festivals in various English cities.

Smart was acquainted with many prominent composers of his time, starting with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, whom he met during a trip to Europe in 1825 to Carl Maria von Weber, who in his London home died of tuberculosis in 1826. From his posthumous recordings presented HB and CLE Cox 1907 Leaves from the Journals of Sir George Smart together. Smart also left several compositions, with many of the works attributed to him as possible come from his father or his brother Henry.

Source

• Philip H Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans: "A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 14, S. Siddons to Thynne: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 ," SIU Press, 1991, ISBN 9780809315260, pp. 123-24

• Man
• Born in 1776
• Died in 1867
• Conductor
• Classic organist
• Classical violinist
• Composer
• Person to Ludwig van Beethoven