John Christopher Smith

"The Music" (1732), oil on canvas, 65 x 82 cm, of the painter Jean Honore Fragonard, contemporary of Smith (Musee du Louvre, Paris)

(1712-1795)

The composer John Christopher (Johann Christoph) Smith (Schmidt), author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Ansbach in 1712, the same year of the composers Rousseau, Stanley. He died in Bath on the third October 1795

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OPERE

"Ulysses" was performed on the 16th of April 1733 in Londra (Lincoln) 's Inn Fields (Duke's)

"Rosalinda" was performed on the 4th of Jenuary 1740 in Londra (Hickford's Rooms)

"The Seasons" was performed in 1740

"Issipile" was performed in 1743

"Il ciro riconosciuto" was performed in 1745

"Dario" was performed in 1746

"The Fairies" was performed in Londra on the 3rd of February 1755 (Drury Lane)

"The Tempest" was performed on the 11th of February 1756 in Londra (Drury Lane)

"The Enchanter or Love and Magic" was performed on the 13rd of December 1760 in Londra (Drury Lane)

"Medea" has been represented in 1761

LIEDER

"The Owl Is Abroad", Anonymous

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