Henry Sydney Smith page with free midi's to download

HENRY SYDNEY SMITH

14thJuly 1839 --- 3rdMarch 1889

You will find a fuller Bio on Google or DuckDuckgo.com, below I just put some of the events of his composing career.

Henry Sydney Smith, was born in Dorchester in 1839, Smith love of music started when he was very young, spurred on by his older brother
and father who were musicians.  His father was a  professor of music, and saw Sydney musical talent and Nurtured it. Smith in 1855 moved
to Germany,  may be as the result of winning a Mendelssohn scholarship  (although not certain),  Sydney won a place at the famous Leipzig
conservatory. It was here he spent the following three years, studying the piano and cello.

Smith Returned  back to Dorchester in 1858,  Smith's musical talent was  recognised by the violinist  Henry Blagrove, and on his advice,  he
moved to London the following year and quickly established a name for himself as a recitalist and was much in demand in society circles as
a teacher of the piano. It was around the early 1860's he began to compose piece's for the Piano.

His name bacame a household name for nearly the next 30 years.  He got married to Hanna Birch in 1867,  and had 5 children,  Smith father
Frederick Smith died in 1870,  after some years of failing health his wife Hanne died in 1886.  Smith then married the nurse who had looked
after Hanna in her illness in 1887,  it was shortly later that Smith now suffering from a malignant tumour that now forced him to give up his
teaching and concert career, which put him in debt as he did not received any royalty's for the nearly 400 works he had composed.

To name but a few of  the works he composed,  one of his more famous work's  (the first one I have sequenced below)  Tarantelle Brillante
(1862),  Fairy whispers,  Nocturne (1863),  The storm at sea (1866),  and Chant du Savoyard (1876),  He is thought to have composed as I
said above nearly 400 piece's, some of which you can still download as sheet music from the internet today.

Last Updated on 2021
By Steven

And now for the Music

(3331)"Chanson Russe, Opus.31". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3323)"Morning Dewdrops, Intro". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3290)"Neapolitan dance, Opus.33". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3249)"Gaite de Coeur, (Beat of the Heart)". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3235)"La Harpe Eolienne,(The Aeolian Harp)". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3216)"Lily of the Valley (Mazurka) Opus.14". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3215)"Le Jet D' eau, (The water jet)". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3211)"Tarantelle Brillante in E Minor Opus.8". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

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