Chronological list of Australian classical composers

This is a list of Australian composers of classical music.

Isaac Nathan c. 1820.^[1] Australian maestro

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)
• Henry Butler Stoney (1816-1894)^[6]
• Charles Edward Horsley (1822-1876)^[7]
• Frederick Ellard (1824-1874)^[8]
• Siede, Julius (1825–1903)^[9]
• Frederick Buck (1827-1901)^[10]
• Frederick V M B (full biography unknown)^[11]
• Alexander Rea (1831-1909)^[12]
• Paolo Giorza (1832-1914)^[13]
• William Robinson (1834-1897)
• George William Torrance (1835–1907)^[14]
• Frederick Augustus Packer(1839-1902)^[15][16]
• Joseph Summers (1839-1917)^[17]
• Leon Francois Victor Caron (1850-1907)^[18]
• Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849-1897)^[19]
• MacCarthy, Charles William (1848–1919)^[20]
• Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1850-1910)^[21]
• Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1850-1913)^[22]
• Hector Roderick MacLean (1851-1935)^[23]
• John Albert Delaney (1852-1907)^[24]
• Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925)
• Felix McGlennon (1856-1943)^[25]
• Raimund Pechotsch (-1941)^[26][27]
• John C Burn (unknown)^[28]
• Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895)^[29]
• (William) Augustus Juncker (1855-1942)^[30]
• Hermann Rosendoff (1860-1935)^[31]
• John Lemmone (1861-1949)^[32][33]

Modern/Contemporary

• Mona Margaret McBurney (1862–1932)^[34]
• Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson (1863–1947)^[35]
• Florence Maud Ewart (1864–1949)^[36]
• Alfred Wheeler (1865-1949)^[37]
• George Howard Clutsam (1866-1951)
• Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943)^[38]
• Alfred Hill (1869-1960)^[39]
• Ernest Edwin Mitchell (active 1900-1922)^[40]
• George Castleden (unknown<1950)^[41]
• Alex Frame Lithgow (1870-1929)
• Vince Courtney (unknown active 1907-1939)^[42]
• Ernest Truman (1870-1899)^[43]
• Rosendo Salvado (1870-1900)
• Reginald D'arcy-Ervine (1870s -?)^[44]
• Owen Conduit (1870-1936)^[45]
• Ward McAlister (1872-1926)^[46]
• Johannes Heyer (1872–1945)^[47]
• Joe Slater [alias Felix Le Roy] (1872-1926)^[48]
• Fritz Hart (1874-1949)
• Louis Lavater (1876-1953)^[49][50]
• Manuel Klein (1876-1919)^[51]
• Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879-1942)
• Albert Furnes ^[52]
• Alan M Rattray (d.1919)^[53]
• Ruby Claudia Davy (1883–1949)^[54]
• Alfred J Lawrance (-1954)^[55]
• Frederick Fifield Hall (d. 1953)
• Hooper Brewster Jones (1887–1949)
• Percy Code (1888-1953)^[56]
• William Robert Knox ^[57]
• Frederick Septimus Kelly (?-1916 killed in action)^[58]
• Stephen Moreno (1889-1953)^[59][60]
• Walter James Redfern Turner (1889-1946)
• Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953)^[61]
• Thomas Wood (1892–1950)^[62]
• Walter Donaldson (1893-1947)^[63]
• Horace Keats (1895–1945)^[64]
• John (Jack) Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895-1948)^[65]
• Walter Marwood Du Boulay (1898-1947)^[66]
• Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
• Thomas Bulch (1862–1930)
• Roy Agnew (1891–1944)
• Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960)
• John Antill (1904–1986)
• Charles Zwar (1911-1989)^[17]
• Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014)
• John Carmichael (composer) (born 1930)
• Betty Beath (born 1932)
• Michael Brimer (born 1933)
• Colin Brumby (born 1933)
• Philip Bračanin (born 1942)
• Alison Bauld (born 1944)
• Brenton Broadstock (born 1952)
• Carl Vine (born 1954)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
• Julian Cochran (born 1974)
• Zane Banks (born 1986)
• Ramana Kumar (born 1988)^[67][68]

See also

• List of Australian composers

References

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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.
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8. http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/ellard_frederick
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19. http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/H/c218573E.htm
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25. "Digital Collections - Music - McGlennon, Felix, 1856-1943, composer. Sons of Australia". nla.gov.au.
26. "Digital Collections - Music - Pechotsch, Raimund, -1941. Romance [music]". nla.gov.au.
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28. "Digital Collections - Music - Burn, John C. The star of Australia [music] : a Federation song (May 1899) with harmonised refrain". nla.gov.au.
29. "Biography - Neville George Barnett - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
30. "Digital Collections - Music - Juncker, Aug. W. (August W.), composer. I was dreaming". nla.gov.au.
31. "Hermann Rosendorff - Version details - Trove". nla.gov.au.
32. "Digital Collections - Music - Lemmone, John, 1861-1949. Ave Maria [music]". nla.gov.au.
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35. "Biography - Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
36. "Biography - Florence Maud Ewart - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
37. "Wheeler, Alfred (1865-1949)". nla.gov.au.
38. "Biography - Jack (Moolbong) Johnson - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
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40. "Digital Collections - Music - Mitchell, Ernest Edwin. Two sacred songs [music]". nla.gov.au.
41. "Digital Collections - Music - Castleden, George. Bushmen's contingent [music] : polka". nla.gov.au.
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44. "Digital Collections - Music - Miller, Frederick. Hail! Royal Prince [music]: an ode for solo, chorus and orchestra". nla.gov.au.
45. "Digital Collections - Music - Le Roy, Felix, 1872-1926. At the Dardanelles [music] : the battle of Gallipoli : (descriptive fantasia for the piano)". nla.gov.au.
46. "Digital Collections - Music - Slater, Joe, 1872-1926. My little Christmas belle [music]". nla.gov.au.
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49. "Louis Lavater - Version details - Trove". nla.gov.au.
50. "Biography - Louis Isidore Lavater - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
51. "Digital Collections - Music - Klein, Manuel, 1876-1919. We'll fight for our Australia [music]". nla.gov.au.
52. "Digital Collections - Music - Furnes, Albert. Tiny tunes for wee Australians [music] : a collection of melodies set with words for piano solo without octaves". nla.gov.au.
53. "Rattray, Alan M. - Full record view - Libraries Australia Search". nla.gov.au. line feed character in |title= at position 19 (help)
54. "Digital Collections - Music - Davy, Ruby C. Welcome to Australia [music]". nla.gov.au.
55. "Lawrance, Alf. J. (Alfred J.) - Full record view - Libraries Australia Search". nla.gov.au. line feed character in |title= at position 32 (help)
56. no:Percy Code
57. "Digital Collections - Music - Knox, W. R. (William Robert) The Australian patrol [music]". nla.gov.au.
58. "Kelly, F. S. (Frederick Septimus)". nla.gov.au.
59. "New Norcia: A Spanish Rhapsody". move.com.au.
60. "Biography - Stephen Moreno - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
61. "Biography - Leo Paul Schramm - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
62. "Biography - Thomas Wood - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
63. "Anything you say" & "In the Bamboo Garden" (1928) title 281501 Australian film & sound archive
64. "Biography - Horace Stanley Keats - Australian Dictionary of Biography". anu.edu.au.
65. "Digital Collections - Music - Stoneham, Reginald A. A., 1879-1942. Lolita [music] : Mexican waltz song". nla.gov.au.
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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
• Collection of Quadrille MIDI files