Professor Richard Langham Smith

Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, FRCM, FRCA

Doctoral Supervisor

Educated at Shene Grammar School and University of York and Amsterdam Conservatoire, Richard subsequently studied with Edward Lockspeiser.

Richard's most recent publications include the 2021 monograph published by Boydell & Brewer. His 2020 co-edited volume published by Cambridge University Press won the . He has written about Debussy (Pelléas et Mélisande) and other French composers including entries on Operas in the Grove Dictionaries, and in 2014 published an edition of Bizet's Carmen with Edition Peters.

Richard was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres for services to French Music and Culture in 1994.

Selected publications

Smith RL (2024), Debussy's Impressionism interrogated, in S Trezise (ed.), Debussy in Context (pp. 59–78), Cambridge University Press [].

Smith RL (2021), Bizet's Carmen Uncovered, Boydell & Brewer [].

Smith RL & Rowden C (eds.) (2020), Carmen Abroad: Bizet’s Opera on the Global Stage, Cambridge University Press [hardback , paperback edition (2022) ].

Smith RL (2019), O Camponês em Paris, in Chabrier ‘L’Étoile’, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon, pp. 17–25.

Smith RL (2018), Debussy fifty years later: has the barrel run dry? In F de Médicis and S Huebner (eds.), Debussy’s Resonance (pp. 19–37), Boydell & Brewer [].

Smith RL (2017), Le paradis deux fois perdu: Debussy, Watteau and the Fête Galante, in D Mawer (ed.), Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture (pp. 38–63), Routledge [].

Smith RL (2016), Poulenc et Edward Lockspeiser: un amitié professional, in H Lacombe & N Southon (eds.), Fortune de Francis Poulenc : diffusion, interprétation, réception, (pp. 197-219), Presses Universitaires de Rennes [].

Smith RL (2013), L'art de préluder: quelques questions de taxonomie chez Debussy, in M. Chimènes & A Laederich (eds.) Regards sur Debussy (pp. 329-336) [].

Faculties / departments: Research, Academic staff