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 sat down at the harpsichord train; especially the way of performing in baroque music .

After successful graduation, Smith was entrusted with a teaching position at Lancaster University ; later he moved to 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 was head of the Graduate School at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London and from autumn 2011 Smith taught and researched again at the RCM.

Works (selection)

author

Essays

• Debussy and the art of the cinema . In: Musik and letters , Vol. 54 (1973), pp. 61-70, ISSN  1477-4631 .
• Ravel 's operatic shows. "L'heure et l'enfant" . In: Deborah Mawer (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Ravel . CUP, New York 2000, ISBN 0-521-64026-1 .

Monographs

• Claude Debussy. Pelléas and Mélisande . CUP, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-30714-7 (together with Roger Nichols).
• This is a recording. Listening with a purpose . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1986 (with Barbara Fowler Swartz).

1. Book. ISBN 0-13-919200-X .
2. Music cassette. ISBN 3-12-538418-4 (75 min.)

editor

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