Chronological list of Australian classical composers

This is a list of Australian composers of classical music.

Isaac Nathan c. 1820.[1]

Romantic

• Isaac Nathan (1790–1864)[2]
• Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862)[3]
• Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883)[4]
• Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878)[5]
• William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
• William Stanley (1820–1902)[6]
• Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876)[7]
• Frederick Ellard (1824–1874)[8]
• Siede, Julius (1825–1903)[9]
• Paolo Giorza (1832–1914)
• William Robinson (1834–1897)
• George William Torrance (1835–1907)[10]
• Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902)[11][12]
• Joseph Summers (1839–1917)[13]
• Leon Francois Victor Caron (1850–1907)[14]
• Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849–1897)[15]
• MacCarthy, Charles William (1848–1919)[16]
• Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1850–1910)[17]
• Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1850–1913)[18]
• John Albert Delany (1852–1907)[19]
• Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925)
• Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895)[20]
• Hermann Rosendoff (1860–1935)[21]
• John Lemmone (1861–1949)[22][23]

Modern/Contemporary

• Mona Margaret McBurney (1862–1932)[24]
• Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson (1863–1947)[25]
• Florence Maud Ewart (1864–1949)[26]
• Alfred Wheeler (composer) (1865–1949)[27]
• George Howard Clutsam (1866–1951)
• Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943)[28]
• Alfred Hill (1869–1960)[29]
• Alex Frame Lithgow (1870–1929)
• Vince Courtney (unknown active 1907–1939)[30]
• Ernest Truman (1870–1899)[31]
• Rosendo Salvado (1870–1900)
• Johannes Heyer (1872–1945)[32]
• Fritz Hart (1874–1949)
• Louis Lavater (1876–1953)[33][34]
• Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879–1942)
• Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916 killed in action)[35]
• Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)
• Percy Code (1888–1953)
• Mirrie Hill (1889–1986)
• Stephen Moreno (1889–1953)[36][37]
• Walter James Redfern Turner (1889–1946)
• Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953)[38]
• Thomas Wood (1892–1950)[39]
• Horace Keats (1895–1945)[40]
• John (Jack) Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895–1948)[41]
• Walter Marwood Du Boulay (1898–1947)[42]
• Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
• Thomas Bulch (1862–1930)
• Roy Agnew (1891–1944)
• Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960)
• John Antill (1904–1986)
• Charles Zwar (1911–1989)[13]
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
• Dulcie Holland (1913–2000)
• Miriam Hyde (1913–2005)
• Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014)
• John Carmichael (composer) (born 1930)
• Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003)
• Betty Beath (born 1932)
• Michael Brimer (born 1933)
• Colin Brumby (1933-2018)
• Don Kay (born 1933)
• Ann Carr-Boyd (born 1938)
• Philip Bračanin (born 1942)
• Ross Edwards (born 1943)
• Alison Bauld (born 1944)
• George Palmer (born 1947)
• Brenton Broadstock (born 1952)
• Carl Vine (born 1954)
• Andrew Ford (born 1957)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
• Andrew Schultz (born 1960)
• Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
• Deborah Cheetham (born 1964)
• Constantine Koukias (born 1965)
• Liza Lim (born 1966)
• Lynette Lancini (born 1970)
• Julian Cochran (born 1974)
• Michael Sollis (born 1985)
• Zane Banks (born 1986)

See also

• List of Australian composers

References

1. National Library of Australia nla.pic-an2292675
2. "Portrait of Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer [picture]. – Version details – Trove". nla.gov.au.
3. "Biography – Carl Ferdinand August Linger – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
4. "Biography – Charles Sandys (Stuart Shipley) Packer – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
5. "Biography – Francis Hartwell Henslowe – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
6. http://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/stanley-william.php
7. "Biography – Charles Edward Horsley – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
8. http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/ellard_frederick
9. "Biography – Julius Siede – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
10. "Biography – George William Torrance – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
11. "The Packer Project". kellygarland.com.au. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
12. "Biography – Frederick Augustus Packer – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
13. "Music Directors & Composers [Other]". Australian Variety Theatre Archive.
14. "Biography – Leon Francis Victor Caron – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
15. http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/H/c218573E.htm
16. "Biography – Charles William MacCarthy – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
17. Austlit. "Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli". austlit.edu.au.
18. "Charbonnet Kellermann, Alice". nla.gov.au.
19. "Digital Collections – Music – Delany, J. A. (John Albert), 1852–1907. Mass in F [music] : for solo, tutti, organ and orchestra". nla.gov.au.
20. "Biography – Neville George Barnett – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
21. "Hermann Rosendorff – Version details – Trove". nla.gov.au.
22. "Digital Collections – Music – Lemmone, John, 1861–1949. Ave Maria [music]". nla.gov.au.
23. performing Donizetti in title 268587 at Australian film & sound archive
24. "Biography – Mona Margaret McBurney – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
25. "Biography – Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
26. "Biography – Florence Maud Ewart – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
27. "Wheeler, Alfred (1865–1949)". nla.gov.au.
28. "Biography – Jack (Moolbong) Johnson – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
29. http://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hill-alfred-1332013.pdf
30. Austlit. "Vince Courtney (1927–1933)". austlit.edu.au.
31. "Biography – Ernest Edwin Philip Truman – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
32. "Biography – Johannes Heyer – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
33. "Louis Lavater – Version details – Trove". nla.gov.au.
34. "Biography – Louis Isidore Lavater – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
35. "Kelly, F. S. (Frederick Septimus)". nla.gov.au.
36. "New Norcia: A Spanish Rhapsody". move.com.au.
37. "Biography – Stephen Moreno – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
38. "Biography – Leo Paul Schramm – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
39. "Biography – Thomas Wood – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
40. "Biography – Horace Stanley Keats – Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
41. "Digital Collections – Music – Stoneham, Reginald A. A., 1879–1942. Lolita [music] : Mexican waltz song". nla.gov.au.
42. "09 Jan 1947 – A Geraldton Identity Death of MR. W. M du Boulay..." nla.gov.au.

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
• Collection of Quadrille MIDI files