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:''For other people named John Smith, see the John Smith navigation page'' John Christopher Smith (born Johann Christoph Schmidt; 1712, Ansbach1795, London) was an English composer who, following in his father's footsteps, became George Frideric Handel's secretary and amanuensis. ==Life== John Christopher Smith was the son of Johann Christoph Schmidt (John Christopher Smith, Sr.) (died 1763), Handel's first copyist in London. His father, known to Handel from Halle, was summoned from Germany in 1716. He brought his family to London around 1720. John Christopher Smith, Jr. had a few lessons from Handel and Johann Christoph Pepusch but studied mostly with Thomas Roseingrave. He later became Handel's secretary, musical assistant and amanuensis, when blindness prevented Handel from writing or conducting in his later years. The last year where Handel conducted performances of his oratorios was 1752. Handel fell out with Smith, Sr. in the 1750s, but remained on good terms with the son. From 1753 to the composer's death in 1759, Smith conducted Handel's oratorios that were to be performed in those years. Handel bequeathed to Smith the keyboard instruments in his house at 25 Brook Street and his manuscripts. After Handel's death Smith was involved with John Langshaw in a project to transcribe pieces by the composer for barrel organ. After the success of his oratorio ''Paradise Lost'' in 1760, he became artistic director of the Covent Garden Royal Theatre, a position that he was forced to relinquish due to health reasons in 1772. When granted an annual pension by the King in 1774, Smith retired to Bath.〔(John Christopher Smith ) Bath-Heritage.co.uk, the website for Bath's Heritage Plaques.〕 He died in London.〔Michael Burden, ‘Smith, John Christopher (1712–1795)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 3 Nov 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Christopher Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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