This is a list of Australian musical composers. Issac nathan

Romantic

Isaac Nathan Isaac Nathan (15 January 1864) was an English composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who has been called the "father of Australian music". Early success Isaac Nathan was born around 1791 in the English city of Canterbury to a '' ...

(1790–1864) * Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862) * Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883) *

Francis Hartwell Henslowe Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878) was a British-born civil servant, business manager and composer who worked in England, Australia and India. Born in England, Henslowe was the son of Edward Prentis Henslowe (1772–1857) and Cecilia Mari ...

(1811–1878) * William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865) *

Rosendo Salvado Rosendo Salvado Rotea OSB (1 March 1814 – 29 December 1900) was a Spanish Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, author, founder and first abbot of the Territorial Abbey of New Norcia in Western Australia. Early life and background Salvado was ...

(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 George William Torrance (25 July 1835 – 20 August 1907) was an Irish composer, mainly of church music, who was resident in Australia for many years. Early life Torrance was born in Rathmines, Dublin and became a choirboy at Christ Church Cat ...

(1835–1907) *

Frederick Augustus Packer Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902) was an Australian composer of Anglican spiritual and romantic music. He was born in Reading, Berkshire, in the United Kingdom He worked as a parliamentary civil servant and music teacher. He was a nephew to ...

(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 Alice Ellen Lauentine Charbonnet (12 October 1858, Cincinnati, Ohio – 1 June 1914, Paris, France) was an Australian composer of romantic music, romantic and classical music. Her father was a French judge, and her formative years were spent in ...

(1850–1913) * John Albert Delany (1852–1907) * Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925) * Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895) * Hermann Rosendoff (1860–1935) *

John Lemmone John Lemmone (22 June 1861 – 16 August 1949; also seen as John Lemmoné) was an Australian flute player and composer who was largely self-taught and who at the age of 12, paid for his first flute with gold he had panned himself on the goldfiel ...

(1861–1949) *Mona Margaret McBurney (1862–1932) * Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson (1863–1947) * Florence Maud Ewart (1864–1949) *

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 ...

(1865–1949) * George Howard Clutsam (1866–1951) * Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943) * Alex Frame Lithgow (1870–1929) * Vince Courtney (unknown active 1907–1939) * Ernest Truman *

(1870–1900) * Johannes Heyer (1872–1945) *

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 ...

(1874–1949) *

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 f ...

(1876–1953) * Reginald Stoneham, Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879–1942) *

Frederick Septimus Kelly Frederick Septimus Kelly (29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. After surviving the Gallipoli campaign He was killed in action in the Battle ...

(1881–1916 killed in action) *

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 ...

(1887–1949) * Percy Code (1888–1953) * Horace Keats (1895–1945) * John (Jack) Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895–1948) * Walter Marwood Du Boulay (1898–1947) *

Hugo Alpen Hugo Alpen (26 October 184220 June 1917) was a German-born Australian composer, choral conductor and singing teacher. Early life Born on 26 October 1842 in Kellinghusen, (then part of Denmark), Alpen came to Australia in 1858 at the age of 16. ...

(1842–1917) *

Thomas Bulch Thomas Edward Bulch (30 December 1862 – 13 November 1930) was an English-born Australian musician and composer. Biography Bulch was born in New Shildon, Durham, one of thirteen children, living at 48 Adelaide Street, New Shildon. His fath ...

(1862–1930) * Roy Agnew (1891–1944) * Stephen Moreno (1889–1953) * Walter James Redfern Turner (1889–1946) * Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953) * Thomas Wood (1892–1950)

Modern/Contemporary

* Mirrie Hill (1889–1986) *

Arthur Benjamin Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893, in Sydney – 10 April 1960, in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of '' Jamaican Rumba'' (1938) and of the '' Storm Clouds Cantata'' ...

(1893–1960) *

John Antill John Henry Antill, CMG, OBE (8 April 190429 December 1986) was an Australian composer best known for his ballet ''Corroboree''. Biography Antill was born in Sydney in 1904, and was educated and trained in music at Trinity Grammar School, Syd ...

(1904–1986) * Charles Zwar (1911–1989) *

Peggy Glanville-Hicks Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (29 December 191225 June 1990) was an Australian composer and music critic. Biography Peggy Glanville Hicks, born in Melbourne, first studied composition with Fritz Hart at the Albert Street Conservatorium in M ...

(1912–1990) *

Alfred Hill Alfred Hill may refer to: * Alfred John Hill (1862–1927), British railway engineer * Alfred Hill (cricketer, born 1865) (1865–1936), English cricketer * Alfred Hill (politician) (1867–1945), British Member of Parliament for Leicester West 192 ...

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Dulcie Holland Dulcie Sybil Holland Order of Australia, AM (5 January 1913 – 21 May 2000) was an Australian composer and music educator. Best known for her contributions to music education through her involvement with the Australian Music Examinations Boa ...

(1913–2000) *

Miriam Hyde Miriam Beatrice Hyde (15 January 191311 January 2005) was an Australian composer, classical pianist, music educator, and poet. She composed over 150 works for piano, 50 songs, other instrumental and orchestral works and performed as a concert ...

(1913–2005) *

Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighboring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigin ...

(1929–2014) * John Carmichael (born 1930) *

Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. Biography Williamson was born in Sydney in 1931; his father was an A ...

(1931–2003) * Betty Beath (born 1932) * Michael Brimer (born 1933) * Colin Brumby (1933–2018) * Don Kay (born 1933) *

Larry Sitsky Lazar "Larry" Sitsky (born 10 September 1934) is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar. His long term legacy is still to be assessed, but through his work to date he has made a significant contribution to the Austra ...

(born 1933) *

Ann Carr-Boyd Ann Kirsten Carr-Boyd (born 13 July 1938) is an Australian classical composer and musicologist. She is considered an authority on the history of European music in Australia. Biography Ann Kirsten Wentzel was born in Sydney. Her grandfather W ...

(born 1938) * Philip Bračanin (born 1942) * Ross Edwards (born 1943) * Alison Bauld (born 1944) * Barry Conyngham (born 1944) * George Palmer (born 1947) * Brenton Broadstock (born 1952) *

Carl Vine Carl Edward Vine, (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue inclu ...

(born 1954) * Andrew Ford (born 1957) *

Elena Kats-Chernin Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian pianist and composer, best known for her ballet ''Wild Swans''. Early life and career Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzbek ...

(born 1957) * Nigel Westlake (born 1958) * Andrew Schultz (born 1960) *

Brett Dean Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor. Biography Brett Dean was born, raised and educated in Brisbane. He started learning violin at the age of eight, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan ...

(born 1961) *

Mary Finsterer Mary Finsterer (born 25 August 1962) is an Australian composer and academic. Life Finsterer was born in Canberra in 1962; her siblings are the actors Anni Finsterer and Jack Finsterer. She graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree fro ...

(born 1962) *

Deborah Cheetham Deborah Joy Cheetham (born 24 November 1964), is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, actor, composer and playwright. Early life and education Cheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks o ...

(born 1964) * Georges Lentz (born 1965) *

Constantine Koukias Constantine Koukias (born 14 October 1965) is a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias. He is the co-founder and artistic director of IHOS Music Theatre ...

(born 1965) *

Liza Lim Liza Lim (born 30 August 1966) is an Australian composer. Lim writes concert music ( chamber and orchestral works) as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects. Her work reflects her i ...

(born 1966) *

Katia Tiutiunnik Katia Tiutiunnik (born 19 March 1967 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian composer, scholar and violist. She is of Russian, Ukrainian and Irish descent. Education Katia Tiutiunnik's high school education was completed at Our Lady of Mercy Col ...

(born 1967) * David Banney (born 1967) * Damien Ricketson (born 1973) * Julian Cochran (born 1974) * Nicholas Vines (born 1976) * Michael Sollis (born 1985) * Christopher Healey (born 1990)

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External links

* Pleskun, Stephen. (2012) A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions: 1901–1945. Xlibris Corp, Hobart.
Colonial Music list by Musicologist Graeme Skinner

Australian music history

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal A ...

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