Robert Carleton Smith (19 February 1908 – 28 May 1984 in Centre Island, New York) was the director of the National Arts Foundation and organized the International Awards Foundation to establish awards in fields not covered by the

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. Smith was instrumental in establishing the

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and the J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership. Smith taught music appreciation at the

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from 1926 to 1929, economics and foreign trade at

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from 1928 to 1934, and music history at

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from 1931 to 1939. He was the music editor of ''

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'' and was European correspondent for the ''

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''. From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, he helped recover music manuscripts that had gone missing during the war. A critical evaluation of Smith's role in the recovery was published by the journalist Nigel Lewis in 1981.Nigel Lewis, ''Paperchase: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach ... The Search for their Lost Music'', London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981, 56-80.

External links

The Smith, C. mss., 1929-1978

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Manuscript Collections,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Carleton University of Chicago alumni University of Illinois alumni DePaul University faculty American music journalists 1908 births 1984 deaths New York Herald Tribune people People from Centre Island, New York 20th-century American non-fiction writers