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Smith, John Christopher (1712–1795)| German-born English organist and composer. He acted as Handel's amanuensis (artistic assistant) during the composer's blindness. |
| He was the son of Johann Christoph Schmidt of Ansbach, who went to London as Handel's treasurer and copyist. He studied with Handel, and later with Johann Pepusch and Thomas Roseingrave. In 1746–48 he travelled on the Continent and in 1754 became organist of the Foundling Hospital, where he conducted annual performances of the Messiah between 1759 and 1768. |
Works Opera Teraminta, Ulysses (1733), Issipile (1743), Ciro riconosciuto (1745), Dario (1746), The Fairies (from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, 1755), The Tempest (after Shakespeare, 1756); Rosalinda (1740), The Enchanter, or Love and Magic (Garrick, 1760). |
Choral oratorios David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (1738), Paradise Lost (after Milton, 1758), Rebecca, Judith (1758), Jehoshaphat (1764), The Redemption (1774). |
Other Burial Service; instrumental works. |
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