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Mark Edgley Smith (20 March 1955 – 26 July 2008) was a British composer. He was born in Wimbledon, and educated at Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames, where he began to compose seriously. He went on to study music at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, though as a composer he remained mostly self-taught. His style could be diatonically tuneful, as in the ''Vancouver songbook'', a project of part-songs for the Vancouver Bach Children’s Chorus. At other times it was highly complex and chromatic (''The house of Sleep''). Sometimes these extremes can be found in a single work, as in the ''five madrigals to poems by e e cummings'' (1994), which won a competition for new choral music and were later released on CD. In 2001 his setting of Lewis Carroll’s ''Jabberwocky'', commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival of Music, was premièred by members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Other works have been performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (''Songs my Auntie taught me''), the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble.(''Fanfares for forgotten occasions''), the Tippett Quartet (String quartet) and the composer-pianist Robert Keeley (''«People of liberated city …»''). He had a daughter, Anna February Edgley-Smith (born 25 February 1983) and a son, Milo Henry Edgley-Smith (born 4 May 1999). He died in Cheltenham, aged 53. == Chronological List of Compositions == (juvenilia omitted ) *''Go-round'' for brass quintet, Op.1 (1976, revised 1983) *''Campanile'' for flute, harp and harpsichord, Op.2 (1976) *''Magnificat ''and'' Nunc dimittis'' (text ) for three equal voices, Op.3 (1975) *''Occasional fanfare'' for brass, piano and percussion (1976, orch. 1983) *''Quinta essentia'' for brass sextet, Op.4 (1977) *''Fire festival'' for mixed chamber choir, Op.5 (1977-8) *''The House of Sleep'' (Gower ) for mezzo and 9 instruments, Op.6 (1982-3) *''Six starsongs'' for children’s voices, piano and percussion, Op.7 (1983) *''In nomine'' for 6 instruments, Op.8 (1983) *''Planh'' for small orchestra, Op.9 (1984) *''Panic relation'' for clarinet and piano, Op.10 (1985) *''Vancouver songbook'', Volume 1 for children’s voices (1-4 parts) and piano, Op.11 (1992-3) *''Nuper rosarum flores'' (Dufay ) for orchestra, Op.12 (1992) *''2 × 2 movements for 2 × 2 saxophones'', Op.13 (1993) *''Vancouver songbook'', Volume 2 for children’s voices (1-4 parts) and piano, Op.14 (1994 onwards) *''five madrigals to poems by e e cummings'' for chorus, Op.15 (1994; no. 5 revised 2002) *''«People of liberated city celebrate under a cloud»'' for piano solo, Op.16 (1994) *''Angelus Domini descendit'' – anthem for double chorus and organ, Op.16a (1995) *''Fanfares for forgotten occasions'' for brass quintet, Op.17 (1995) *''Welsh incident'' (Graves ) – song for male voice and piano, Op.18 (1996) *''The actor’s nightmare'' and ''Sister Mary Ignatius explains it all for you'' (1996) - incidental music for a double bill of plays by Christopher Durang *''Songs my Auntie taught me'' – fantasy-overture for orchestra, Op.19 (1998) *''Song’s eternity'' (Clare ) for children’s chorus (4-part) and piano (1998) - written for the ''Vancouver songbook'' but withdrawn *''Notturno diurno'' for small orchestra (1999) *''Until the day break'' (of Songs ) for men’s and women’s voices (each unison) and organ, Op.20 (1999) *''Ludi Sæcularia'' – five dances for orchestra, Op.21 (1997–99) *''Jabberwocky'' (Carroll ) – a melodrama for narrator, children’s chorus and 13 instruments, Op.22 (2001) *''Jabberwocky'' – version for narrator, children’s chorus and orchestra, Op.22a *''The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'' (Lear ) for SATB and guitar(s), Op.23 (2002) *String quartet, Op.24 (2003-4), commissioned by Heather Pritchard *''… an owld song of Mr. Birde …'' for chamber orchestra, Op.25 (2003-6) 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「Mark Edgley Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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