David Stanley Smith
David Stanley Smith (born July 6, 1877 in Toledo , Ohio , † December 17, 1949 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American composer.
Smith studied from 1895 with Horatio Parker at Yale University - where Charles Ives was one of his friends - and then became organist at the Center Church in 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 in 1920, as the successor to Horatio Parker, Dean of the School of Music and director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra . From 1903 to 1946 he taught music at Yale. In 1910 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1933 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
He composed an opera ( Merrymount ), five symphonies , orchestral rhapsodies and impressions, chamber music works, choral music, anthems , song cycles and songs .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: David Stanley Smith. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, David Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toledo , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1949 |
| Place of death | New Haven , Connecticut |