Edward Smith

Alias: Smyth

Life

Baptised: 5 March 1587

Buried: 4 February 1612

Biography

English organist and composer. The son of a George Smith, he was a chorister at Durham Cathedral from May 1597 until some time in 1601 when he became a King's Scholar at the grammar school. By October 1608 he had become Master of the Choristers and organist, posts which he held until his early death. In his will he left his ‘best clarigandes’ to his nephew William Smith. Of the anthems ascribed to him, If the Lord himself has now been identified as by Matthew Jeffries, and the precise relationship between Smith's O Lord consider my distress – ascribed to him in the Durham Cathedral manuscripts – and the anthem of that title attributed to ‘R N’ (Richard Nicholson) in one part book has yet to be established.

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List of choral works

• And walk in the law
• O Lord our Governor
• O praise God in his holiness
• Preces and Responses

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