Sydney Smith

All Compositions

Compositions for: Piano

#Arrangements for: Piano

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6 Morceaux très faciles

A

Adelaide de Beethoven, Op.121 Adieu!, Op.114 Air Danoise, Op.136 Air Irlandaise Varié, Op.128 Airs écossais, Op.146 Arcadia, Op.95 Arlequin and Colombine, Op.238 Aspiration, Op.208/1 Au Revoir, Op.216 Austrian Hymn of Haydn, Op.51 Autumnal Tints, Op.82

B

Ballade, Op.165 Barcarolle, Op.88 Bergerette, Op.216 Bohemian Girl - Brilliant Fantasia, Op.197 Bohemian Girl - Second Fantasia, Op.241 Bolero, Op.107 Brilliant Fantasia on 'Maritana', Op.207 Brilliant Fantasia on 'The March of the Men of Harlech', Op.15

C

Cantilena, Op.169 Caprice espagnol Carillon de Noel, Op.209 Chanson Créole, Op.105 Chanson de Noël Chanson russe, Op.31 Chant de Berceau, Op.156 Chant des Forgerons, Op.204 Chant des Oiseaux, Op.49 Chant du Savoyard, Op.123 Choeur de Chasse, Op.171 Colinette, Op.218 Con Amore Concert Study No.2, Op.148 Concertante Duet on Airs from Auber's Operas, Op.1 Consolation in Sorrow, Op.47 Coquetterie, Op.94 Cynthia, Op.157

D

Danse des fantômes, Op.200 Danse Napolitaine, Op.33 Duo Brillante on Airs from Hérold’s Zampa, Op.2

E

En route, Op.132 Etude de concert, Op.59

F

Fandango in D-flat major, Op.34 Fantaisie brillante No.2 on 'Lucia di Lammermoor', Op.92 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Anna Bolena', Op.151 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Faust', Op.117 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Fra Diavolo', Op.67 Fantaisie Brillante on 'I Lombardi', Op.83 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia', Op.87 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Il Trovatore', Op.129 Fantaisie brillante on 'La Traviata', Op.103 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Martha', Op.30 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Oberon', Op.56 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Orphée aux Enfers' No.1, Op.64 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Orphée aux Enfers' No.2, Op.90 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Rigoletto', Op.122 Fantaisie Brillante on 'Un Ballo in Maschera', Op.10 Fantaisie brillante sur 'La favorite', Op.71 Fantaisie brillante sur l'opéra 'La sonnambula', Op.96 Fantaisie de Concert on 'Lucrezia Borgia', Op.69 Fantaisie elegante sur 'La Dame Blanche', Op.6 Fantaisie-Etude on Donizetti's 'Com' è Gentil', Op.69b Fantasie on Masaniello, Op.32 Fantasie on Tannhäuser, Op.164 Feu de joie, Op.28 For You

G

Gaieté de coeur, Op.24 Gavotte in G major, Op.161 Grande Fantaisie brillante on Flotow's Stradella, Op.149 Grande Fantaisie de Concert on 'Der Freischuetz', Op.16 Grande Fantaisie on Bellini's opera 'Beatrice di Tenda', Op.147 Grande Fantaisie on 'Don Giovanni', Op.48 Grande Fantaisie on 'Guillaume Tell', Op.61 Grande Fantaisie on 'I Puritani', Op.85 Grande fantaisie on 'Les Huguenots', Op.44 Grande Fantaisie on Weber's 'Preciosa', Op.93 Grande fantaisie sur l'opéra 'L'elisir d'amore', Op.73

H

Harmonies du Soir, Op.54 Herve Chilperic, Op.127 Home Sweet Home, Op.145

J

Jeunesse dorée, Op.86

L

La Cascade de Rubis, Op.22 La danza, Tarantella napolitana de Rossini, Op.104 La fileuse, Op.39 La Gaité, Op.9 La Harpe éolienne, Op.11 La sympathie, Op.99 L'Ange du Foyer, Op.57 L'Arc en Ciel, Op.63 Le Bivoac, Op.138 Le Jet d'Eau, Op.17 Les Cloches de Corneville, Op.228 Lily of the Valley, Op.14 L'oiseau de paradis, Op.29 Lucia di Lammermoor, Op.7

M

Marche Funebre, Op.175 Marche Gauloise, Op.206 Maypole Dance, Op.45 Mazurka des Ulans, Op.25 Memories of Home, Op.60 Mendelssohn's Concerto in G minor, Reminiscence, Op.109b Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.76 Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony, Paraphrase, Op.101 Mountain Stream, Op.13

N

P

Paraphrase No.1 on Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Op.81 Paraphrase No.2 on Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise, Op.98 Pas de sabots, Op.50 Pas redoublé, Op.35 Pascal la Chatelaine, Op.231 Pot Pourri on Airs from Wallace’s Amber Witch, Op.3 Prière des Pelerins, Op.41

R

Retrospect, Op.160 Rippling Waves, Op.7b Rossini's Stabat Mater, Paraphrase, Op.89

S

Sérénade de Gounod, Op.118 Sérénade vénitienne, Op.201 Sleigh Bells Songes a la Foret, Op.26 Sous la fenêtre, Op.52 Souvenir de Spa, Op.12 Sur le lac, Op.109

T

Tarantelle brillante, Op.8 Tarantelle No.2, Op.21 Tarantelle No.3, Op.66 Tarantelle No.4, Op.217 The Cloister, Op.75 The Fairy Queen, Op.42 The Hardy Norseman, Op.5 The Last Rose of Summer, Op.173 The Storm at Sea, Op.53 Thoughts of Home, Op.91 Titania, Op.116

U

Une perle de Varsovie, Op.27

V

Victoire, Op.177

Arrangements for: Piano

Chanson de Noël Chanson russe, Op.31 Fandango in D-flat major, Op.34 Gaieté de coeur, Op.24 Pas redoublé, Op.35 The Fairy Queen, Op.42

Sydney Smith (14 July 1839 – 3 March 1889) was a leading English pianist and composer in Victorian England.

Smith was born in Dorchester, Dorset. He grew up in a family of musicians. His father was the head of a music school and often gave concerts with his two sons Sydney and Boyton. Smith studied piano in Leipzig with Ignaz Moscheles and Louis Plaidy, cello with Friedrich Grützmacher, and composition with Julius Rietz. He returned to England in 1858, settling the following year in London, where he remained until his death, highly regarded as a teacher and composer. He composed or transcribed about 400 works for the piano. These were extremely popular in salons in England in the 19th century, particularly the early works. Many pieces were issued both as solo pieces and as piano duets.

Smith's earliest compositions are piano accompaniments to three concertina pieces by Richard Blagrove. Apart from these, he composed only for solo piano until the last years of his life, when he also wrote a small handful of songs.

Amongst his best known works are

Le Jet d'eau was used as the theme for The Foley Family, a drama serial about the comic lives of a Dublin family, which ran on Radio Éireann (the former name of the Irish national radio service) from 1952 to the late 1960s. It was written by David Hayes and starred George Green and Peg Monaghan.

He wrote many other morceaux de salon for piano solo and made many arrangements from popular operas. In addition to the works published under his own name, he also published a number of piano works under the names Paul Beaumont and Victor Delacour.