Mark Edgley Smith, also written Mark Edgley-Smith (20 March 1955 – 26 July 2008) was a British

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. He was born in

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and educated at Tiffin School,

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. It was at Tiffin that he began to compose seriously, and he later went to study music at the

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. Mark Edgley Smith 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

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, aged 53.

Chronological list of compositions

any juvenilia omitted">juvenilia.html" ;"title="any juvenilia">any 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'' [English 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'' ohn Gowerfor 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'' fter Dufayfor 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'' obert 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'' ohn Clarefor 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'' ong of Songsfor men’s and women’s voices (each unison) and organ, Op.20 (1999) *''Ludi Sæcularia'' – five dances for orchestra, Op.21 (1997–99) *''Jabberwocky'' ewis 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'' dward Learfor 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)

Reconstruction

*Schütz: Opening chorus of the ''Christmas story'' reconstructed from the extant continuo part: SATB, 2vn. 2va. bn. bc (other instruments ad lib.) (1976)

Arrangements

*Byrd: ''The Earl of Oxfordes march'' rig. kbdfor 12 brass and percussion (2003) *Debussy: '' Feuilles mortes'' rig. pffor orchestra (1977) *Ives: ''Variations on 'America' '' rig. orgfor orchestra (2006) *MacDowell: ''Sea pictures'' rig. pffor orchestra (1983-2006) *Purcell: Fantazia no. 7 (Z.738) rig. 4 violsfor 3 guitars (2000) *Ravel: ''Gaspard de la nuit'' rig. pffor orchestra (2003-) *Sweelinck: ''Mein junges Leben hat ein End'' rig. kbdfor 9 brass (1983) *Trad. Irish: ''She moved through the fair'' for voice and 5 instruments (2005-6)

Discography

*''Vancouver songbook'', Vol. 1: performed by the Vancouver Bach Children’s Chorus/Bruce Pullan on ‘The Chariot Children’, VBCC 9499CD *''five madrigals to poems by e e cummings'': performed by Schola Cantorum of Oxford/Jeremy Summerly on ‘Children of our time’, Hyperion CDA67575

References

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