Stephen Hale Marsh was born in the

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and lived in other countries, including

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, but thirty productive years of his career were spent in

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. He gave popular lectures on music. He was fondly regarded as a ''pioneer'' of music. He taught singing in Sydney, where he was said to raise the expectations of the audience. Although he was initially an ally of fellow composer

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, he later became a rival. Marsh took part in the inauguration of the Victorian Academy of Music. Marsh wore his beard in the chin-strap style. He played and wrote music for the harp.

Works

* 1824 There's a magic in thine eye, love * 1841 Leichhardt's Return * 1845 Australian Waltz * 1846 Leichhardt's march * 1851 Ferrolana Polka Opus 6

* 1854 'By Murray River (Western Australia), Murray's Banks' - setting of bush poem by 'Ignotus' or 'Evelyn' * 1854 Liechhardt March * 1854 Bathurst March * 1855 Brilliant fantasia *1856 Far O'er the Sea * 1856 Allan McGan * 1859 In Thee Oh Lord Do I Put My Trust * 1862 (arrangeur) 'Le Bon Voyage' * 1865 'The Stockman's last bed' setting of lines published as early as 1857 *1872 Illustrations of Pipelӗ *Advance Australia *Fair Australia Waltzes * Hail to Victoria! Queen of the ocean *Australian Polka *Gentleman in Black (Opera) *1896 (posthumous) Song of the Aeroplane: The Flying Machine *Japan Waltz *Churan Waltz *Homebush Galop

Recordings

*All England Eleven Polka

References

Australian classical harpists 1808 births 1888 deaths Australian conductors (music) Australian male composers 19th-century Australian musicians 19th-century classical composers Australian male classical composers Australian classical composers Australian opera composers Musicians from Melbourne 19th-century conductors (music) People from the Colony of Victoria {{String-musician-stub