Christopher Smart
Life
Born: 11 April 1722
Died: 21 May 1771
Biography
View the Wikipedia article on Christopher Smart.
Settings of text by Christopher Smart
- Awake, arise, lift up your voice (Thomas Haweis)
- Come, my friends (William Horsley)
- For he is an instrument (Barbara Rosen)
- For he keeps the Lord's watch (Barbara Rosen)
- For he purrs (Barbara Rosen)
- Gay Florimel of noble birth (Thomas Arne)
- Halton Holgate (Andrew Sims)
- Hearken to the anthem glorious (Richard Redhead)
- Hearken to the anthem glorious (William Henry Monk)
- Laus Deo (Percy Whitlock)
- We sing of God, the mighty source (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
- We sing of God, the mighty source (William Hayes)
- Where is this stupendous stranger? (William Boyce)
Extracts from Smart's Jubilate Agno were used as the text for Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb
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