Richard Langham Smith

Biographic Data

ID3600705
NAMERichard Langham Smith
GIVEN NAMESRichard Langham
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH R L
AFFILIATIONSRoyal College of Music
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS66
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Carmen à sa création

    Open AccessRichard Langham SmithARTICLEMusic and Letters2025

  • La Maturation artistique de Debussy dans son contexte historique (1884–1902) François de Médicis

    Open AccessRichard Langham SmithARTICLEMusic and Letters2022

    This perceptive, penetrating, and beautifully produced book explores the output of Debussy up to Pelléas et Mélisande, yielding deep insights into his musical development during the 1880s and 1890s. Although the lovely, coloured illustration might on the cover, and the word ‘artistique’ in the title, suggest a book considering Debussy’s music and visual arts, this is not the case. This monograph is primarily about the composer’s musical developme…

  • Carmen Abroad

    Open AccessMichael Christoforidis, Elizabeth Kertesz et al.BOOKCarmen Abroad2020

    For over a century, flamenco has been closely associated with productions of Carmen around the world. Bizet’s gypsy protagonist is often depicted as a flamenco performer while it has become commonplace to perceive aspects of flamenco in Bizet’s score. Yet this nexus only developed gradually during the first three decades of the opera’s existence. Bizet was largely unfamiliar with flamenco and composed Carmen while flamenco as we recognise it toda…

  • Voice Lessons

    Richard Langham SmithARTICLEMusic and Letters2012

    As a two-line postscript to her article on Debussy’s ‘La Mort des amants’ from his Cinq Poèmes de Ch. Baudelaire (‘The Echo, the Cry, the Death of Lovers’, Nineteenth Century Music, 18 (1994–5), 136–51), Katherine Bergeron comments that she ‘has left her discipline behind’ and that ‘this loss is bliss’. I take this to mean the discipline (and disciplines) of Musicology, and that its loss is her (and our) gain. Musicology has learnt to spread its …

  • Elsewhere and Erstwhile

    Richard Langham Smith, Annegret Fauser et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times2006

    The article reviews the books "Musical Encounters at the 1989 Paris World's Fair," by Annegret Fauser and "Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France," by Katherine Ellis

  • Pelléas et Mélisande

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • France (opera)

    D G Charlton, David Charlton et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Paris (opera)

    Rebecca Harris‐Warrick, Rebecca Harris-Warrick et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Louise

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Debussy, (Achille-)Claude (opera)

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Roussel, Albert (opera)

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Opéra comique

    M Elizabeth C Bartlet, Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Thomas, (Charles Louis) Ambroise

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis

    Elaine Brody, Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Maeterlinck, Maurice

    Paul Griffiths, Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Godard, Benjamin

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Canteloube (de Malaret), (Marie) Joseph

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Leroux, Xavier

    Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Février, Henry

    John Wagstaff, Richard Langham SmithCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Behind the Veil

    Richard Langham Smith, J Massenet et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1998

  • Ways and Means

    Richard Langham Smith, Hervé LacombeARTICLEThe Musical Times1998

  • Matchless Monty

    Richard Langham Smith, Monteverdi Monteverdi et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1997

  • Morceaux de Plaisir

    Andrew Thomson, Richard Langham SmithARTICLEThe Musical Times1997

  • Bloodthirsty Bach

    Richard Langham Smith, Bach Bach et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1997

  • First of Many

    Richard Langham Smith, Handel Handel et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1997