Ode to The Passions (1882), her longest work, performed at the Hereford Festival in that year, and two cantatas for male voices in the last two years of her life. In her obituary, her husband claims that she was working on a setting of the poem The Valley of Remorse by Louisa Sarah Bevington for chorus, soloists and orchestra; however, there is no manuscript to support this claim. Of her forty songs, her most popular work was the vocal duet O that we two were maying. Another, Lessons of the Gorses (setting Elizabeth Barrett Browning), was published in The Girl's Own Paper in 1883. Since 2010, Smith's manuscripts are housed in the Royal Academy of Music Library. Two symphonies and two overtures are published by A-R Editions in editions by Ian Graham-Jones. The Symphony in A minor, Symphony in C minor and the Andante for clarinet and orchestra (taken from the Clarinet Sonata) have been recorded by Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players for Chandos. Leonard Sanderman edited the complete sacred choral music of Alice Mary Smith, and recorded this repertoire with The Eoferwic Consort, supported by an AHRC Knowledge Exchange Grant. According to an obituary in The Athenaeum of 13 December 1884: "Her music is marked by elegance and grace ... power and energy. Her forms were always clear and her ideas free from eccentricity; her sympathies were evidently with the Classic rather than with the Romantic school." References Further reading Ian Graham-Jones: The Life and Music of Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), A Woman Composer of the Victoria Era (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) External links Free scores by Alice Mary Smith at the Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) A-R Editions' prefaces are available on Google Books further information on Sanderman's editions of the sacred choral music English classical composers English Romantic composers British women classical composers 1839 births 1884 deaths Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Musicians from London Deaths from typhoid fever 19th-century classical composers 19th-century English musicians 19th-century British composers 19th-century women composers