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Chronological List Of Australian Classical Composers
This is a list of Australian musical composers. Romantic * Isaac Nathan (1790–1864) * Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862) * Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883) * Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878) * William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865) * Rosendo Salvado (1814–1900) * William Stanley (1820–1902) * Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876) * Frederick Ellard (1824–1874) * Siede, Julius (1825–1903) * Paolo Giorza (1832–1914) * William Robinson (1834–1897) * George William Torrance (1835–1907) * Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902) * Joseph Summers (1839–1917) * Leon Francois Victor Caron (1850–1907) * Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849–1897) * MacCarthy, Charles William (1848–1919) * Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1850–1910) * Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1850–1913) * John Albert Delany (1852–1907) * Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925) * Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895) * Hermann Rosendoff (1860–1935) * John Lemmone (1861–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issac Nathan
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John Albert Delany
John Albert Delany (6 July 185211 May 1907), usually referred to as John A. Delany, was an organist and composer in Sydney, Australia, a champion of choral music. He has been called "Australia's greatest musician" and "The Australian Gounod". History Born in England in 1852, the only son of J. D. Delany, and came to New South Wales around 1855 with his parents. His first music lessons were with Ellis Taylor, organist of St John's Church of England, Newcastle, then studied with the Benedictine monks at Lyndhurst College, Sydney, and had music lessons from William Cordner, organist of St Mary's pro-Cathedral. After Cordner's death, in 1870, he was taken on as a student by Charles S. Packer. This reference has 1853 as Delany's year of birth. His first musical appointment was as violinist in the orchestra of the Victoria Theatre. He had become sought-after by theatre managers for his expertise in scoring music for orchestra. In 1872 "Cordner's boy" was appointed choirmaster at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Code
Edward Percival "Percy" Code (3 July 1888 – 16 October 1953) was an Australian classical composer and musician, specialising in cornet and trumpet. He is best known for his compositions for brass band, including many solo works. Biography Percy Code was born in Melbourne, growing up in a musical family.Eriksen, Jan; "The Golden Age of the Cornet" Ole Edvard Antonsen/Royal Norwegian Navy Band; BIS Records 2007; BIS-SACD-1598 His father, Edward Thomas Code, was a trumpeter who led his own ensemble, ''Code's Melbourne Brass Band''. Percy learnt to play cornet and violin from his father, and played in his band. Aged 22 in 1910, he won the solo championship at the Royal South Street Competition in Ballarat. This saw him invited to England to play principal cornet with the Besses o' th' Barn Band, where he played professionally for the next few years. After returning to Australia, he conducted community bands in cities such as Ballarat. He married Elsie Maude Miller in 1915, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooper Brewster-Jones
Hooper Josse Brewster-Jones (1887–1949) was a musician, composer, teacher and music critic, born near Orroroo on the Black Rock Plain, South Australia. His parents were William Arthur Jones (c. 1855–1947), a school master, and Rebecca née Williams. He attended school at Armagh and Bute, where he was taught by his father, including music. In June 1896, he performed a duet with Rebie Jones and then his own composition, "The Bute March" – he celebrated his ninth birthday a few days later. He left home at age 13 to board in Adelaide. Jones studied piano at the Elder Conservatorium of Music from 1901. While there, he won an Elder Overseas Scholarship to study at London's Royal College of Music focussing on composition, chamber music and piano. His farewell concert in June 1905 at the Adelaide Town Hall's Banqueting-room provided, "Bach's 'Prelude and fugue', in A minor (transcribed by Liszt), Chopin's "'Nocturne in E major', 'Etude in F major', and 'Scherzo in B minor', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Septimus Kelly
Frederick Septimus Kelly (29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rowing (sport), rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. After surviving the Gallipoli campaign He was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme during the First World War. Early life Kelly, the fourth son and seventh child of Irish-born woolbroker Thomas Herbert Kelly and his native-born wife Mary Anne, née Dick, was born in 1881 at 47 Phillip Street, Sydney. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, then went with his family to England and educated at Eton College, where he stroked the school eight to victory in the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1899. Kelly studied music at Eton under Charles Harford Lloyd, and was awarded a Lewis Nettleship musical scholarship at Oxford University, Oxford in 1899. At Balliol College, Oxford (BA, 1903; MA, 1912) he was mentored by Donald Tovey and became president of the university musical club a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Stoneham
Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879 – 11 March 1942) was an Australian composer and publisher of mostly topical songs, and a musical comedy '' F.F.F.'' He was perhaps Australia's leading exponent of jazz and ragtime piano styles in the first decades of the 20th century as both composer and performer. He was also a popular accompanist and recording artist. Biography He was born in Carlton, Victoria in 1879, the fifth son of musician William (c. 1833 – 25 March 1913) and Ellen Stoneham (c. 1846 – 10 February 1889) of 210 Madeline Street Carlton. In 1900 he served in the South Australian Mounted Rifles as a private trumpeter. His trade was listed as "wood turner". He was wounded in action at Slobet's Nek. In 1901 he married Adelaide Minnie "Addie" Lyons (1880–1959). They had a daughter Val Augusta Elsa Stoneham on 10 April 1902. Described as "one of Melbourne's leading florists", she was employed by Harris, Scarfe, Ltd., Adelaide in 1933. Stoneham is most remembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Lavater
] Louis Isidore Lavater (2 March 1867 – 22 May 1953) was an Australian composer and author born in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, of Swedish extraction. He published more than a hundred musical works. He prepared musical settings of popular folklore by collaborating with well known Australian lyricists of his time, including Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and Mary Gilmore. He was a leading proponent of the Australian bush ballad as a vehicle for music education. In 1938, Alfred Hill composed a musical setting of Lavater's verse ''Mopoke.'' Lavater's words were also set by Australian composers Doctor Ruby Davy and Fanny Turbayne. Notoriety Lavater was regarded as a gifted leader of music in rural Victoria. He was fondly known for his direction of Liedertafel concerts held between 1890 and 1920. In 1927 Gertrude Hart and Bernard Cronin founded the Society of Australian Authors. Cronin was president and Lavater and Hart were vice-presidents. Its aim was to raise the profile o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Hart
Fritz Bennicke Hart (11 February 1874 – 9 July 1949) was an English composer, conductor, teacher and unpublished novelist, who spent considerable periods in Australia and Hawaii. Early life Hart was born at Brockley, Greenwich, England, eldest child of Frederick Robinson Hart and his wife Jemima (Jemmima) Waters, née Bennicke.Radic, Thérèse"Hart, Fritz Bennicke (1874–1949)"''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', accessed 23 March 2013 Both his parents were musical. From the age of six, Fritz sang in the parish choir his father ran, and his mother was a piano teacher. He spent three years as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, under Sir Frederick Bridge, and then went to the Royal College of Music in 1893, where he became acquainted with Gustav Holst, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Hurlstone, Ralph Vaughan Williams and John Ireland. At one student concert in 1896, Hart played the cymbals, Vaughan Williams the triangle, Holst the trombone, and Ireland also played. Composit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Truman
Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (29 December 1869 - 6 October 1948) was an Australian organist and a composer of light romantic era classical music. Early life Truman was born was in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Son of Edwin Philip Truman, a fishmonger, and Elizabeth Robinson Crawfurd Smith. His family emigrated to Melbourne and then New Zealand, before settling in Hunters Hill, a suburb of Sydney, in 1885. Musical career Truman was taught music by his father, then studied under Arthur J. Barth of Dunedin, New Zealand and Julius Buddee of Sydney. From 1888 until 1893, Truman attended Leipzig Conservatory along with Australian Alfred Hill.G. D. Rushworth, 'Truman, Ernest Edwin Philip (1869–1948)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/truman-ernest-edwin-philip-8858/text15549, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 30 May 2020. While at Leipzig he composed 26 fugues, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Lithgow
Alexander Frame Lithgow (1 December 1870 in Glasgow – 12 July 1929 in Launceston, Tasmania) was a Scottish-born, New Zealand and Australian based composer and bandleader known as the " Sousa of the Antipodes". His name is pronounced "Alek" by his family. Youth In 1876, the Lithgows emigrated to Invercargill, New Zealand. Aged 6, Alex went to Invercargill Grammar School (now Invercargill Middle School). He attended Invercargill's Presbyterian Church, First Church. He liked Ice Hockey, the Circus and Rugby. His family was musical, performing as the six-member Lithgow Concert Company around Southland. 1881 At the age of 11 having had lessons on the cornet initially by his father, Alex joined the local brass band the Invercargill Garrison Band. Alex also learnt the violin to a very high standard. 1886 At the age of 16 he advanced to be the band's solo and principal cornetist. However, despite often being stated, he never was this Band's conductor. 1887 At the age of 17 his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George H
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Wheeler (composer)
Reverend Alfred Wheeler (27 October 1865 – 1949) was an Anglican minister and composer of spiritual and romantic music. He arranged children's folk songs and nursery rhymes for publication. He composed other songs and wrote orchestrations for larger choral works. Wheeler lived in Adelaide for eight years on arrival in Australia in 1899 before spending most of his life in Geelong. He was successful and well regarded as a musician and minister. He acted as director of the Australian performing rights organization. Wheeler composed the score for a 1940 children's musical ''The Magic Basket'' with lyrics written by Melbourne university arts graduate Bronnie Taylor (Later Oxford PhD). The premiere played at Lauriston Girls School and was revived in New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia and more recently in Queensland. The plot entails a magic basket used to recruit children to the moon, where they help the sand man rescue his sleep dust from goblins. Fourteen melodies and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
