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Andante For Clarinet And Orchestra by Alice Mary Smith

Artist Biography For Alice Mary Smith

Alice Mary Smith Married Name Alice Mary Meadows-White London 19 May 1839 — London 4 December 1884 Was An English Composer. She Studied At The Royal Academy Of Music Under William Sterndale Bennett And George Macfarren. In November 1867 She Was Elected Female Professional Associate Of The Philharmonic Society And In 1884 Hon. RAM Honorary Member Of The Royal Academy Of Music . She Died Of Typhoid Fever The Same Year. Smith Was A Prolific Composer Of Both Large And Small Scale Works. Among Her Compositions Are Four Piano Quartets Three String Quartets A Clarinet Sonata Three Symphonies And Several Large-Scale Cantatas Including The Passions 1882 . Her Most Popular Work Was The Vocal Duet Maying. Many Of Her Instrumental Works Have Only Recently Been Published And Made Available For Performance. According To An Obituary In The Athenaeum Of 13 December 1884 "Her Music Is Marked By Elegance And Grace ... Power And Energy. Her Forms Were Always Clear And Her Ideas Free From Eccentricity Her Sympathies Were Evidently With The Classic Rather Than With The Romantic School."

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