Australian dictionary of biography
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  Agnew, Roy Ewing (b. 1893 d. 1944) |   composer, piano |
  Albert, Jacques (b. 1850 d. 1914 a. 1890) |   publisher |
  Albert, Michel Francois (b. 1874 d. 1962) |   publisher |
  Allan, George Leavis (b. 1826 d. 1897) |   music dealer |
  Amadio, John (Bell) (b. 1888 d. 1964) |   flute |
  Ashe, Thomas Stange Heiss Oscar (b. 1871 d. 1936) |   entrepreneur, actor |
  Ashton, Frederick (b. 1866 d. 1941) |   circus proprietor |
  Ashton, James (b. 1861 d. 1918) |   circus proprietor |
  Ashton, Julian Howard (b. 1877 d. 1964) |   artist, critic |
  Atkins, John Ringrose (b. 1851 d. 1908) |   actor, entrepreneur |
  Austral, Florence (b. 1894 d. 1968) |   soprano, vocals |
  Bailey, Albert Edward (b. 1868 d. 1953) |   singer, actor |
  Bainton, Edgar Leslie (b. 1880 d. 1956) |   composer, teacher |
  Barnes, Gustave Adrian (b. 1877 d. 1921) |   artist, violin |
  Barnett, Neville George (b. 1854 d. 1895 a. 1874-1883) |   organ, critic |
  Barrett, James (b. 1862 d. 1945) |   opera manager |
  Beale, Octavius (b. 1850 d. 1930) |   |
  Beatty, Raymond (Wesley) (b. 1903 d. 1973) |   bass-baritone, teacher of singing |
  Beaumont, Armes (b. 1842 d. 1913) |   singer |
  Bellhouse, Alan (b. 1914) |   conductor |
  Benjamin, Arthur (Leslie) (b. 1893 d. 1960) |   composer, musicisti |
  Benson, Lucy Charlotte (b. 1860 d. 1943) |   singer, conductor |
  Bochsa, Nicholas Charles [Robert Nicholas Charles] (b. 1789 d. 1856 a. 1830-1831) |   compositore, harp |
  Bourne, Una Mabel (b. 1882 d. 1974) |   piano, composer |
  Boyes, George Thomas (b. 1787 d. 1853) |   musician, diarist |
  Bracy, Henry (b. 1841 d. 1917) |   tenor, stage designer |
  Bradley, Joseph (b. 1857 d. 1935) |   conductor, musician |
  Brahe, May (b. 1884 d. 1956) |   composer |
  Brewster-Jones, Hooper [Josiah Hooper] (b. 1887 d. 1949) |   piano, composer |
  Brier, Percy (b. 1885 d. 1970) |   piano, conductor |
  Brooke, Gustavus Vaughan (b. 1818 d. 1866) |   actor, entrepreneur |
  Brookes, Ivy (b. 1883 d. 1970) |   musician |
  Brough, Lionel (b. 1857 d. 1906 a. 1906-1908) |   music hall artist |
  Brownlee, John (Donald Mackenzie) (b. 1901 d. 1969) |   baritone, horn |
  Burton, Henry (b. 1823 d. 1900) |   circus proprietor, entrepreneur |
  Bussell, John Garrett (b. 1803 d. 1875) |   Western Australia pioneer musician |
  Campbell, Elizabeth [Bessie] (b. 1870 d. 1964) |   banjo |
  Carandini, Marie (b. 1826 a. 1863) |   arranger, Emigrant |
  Carboni, Raffaello (b. 1820 d. 1875) |   composer, author |
  Caron, Leon Francis Victor (b. 1850 d. 1905) |   music director, composer |
  Carroll, Daniel (b. 1860 d. 1959) |   entrepreneur |
  Carroll, Edward (b. 1868 d. 1931) |   conductor, entrepreneur |
  Carter, Bryce Morrow (b. 1882 d. 1939) |   cello |
  Carter, Francis Mowat (b. 1879 d. 1956) |   cello |
  Castles, Amy Eliza (b. 1880 d. 1951) |   Sanger, soprano |
  Cathcart, Mary (b. 1833 d. 1880) |   singer, actress |
  Cawthorne, Charles Witto-Witto (b. 1854 d. 1925) |   music seller, concert manager |
  Cawthorne, William Anderson |   |
  Clarke, Jacob (b. 1822 d. 1893) |   music publisher |
  Code, Percy [Edward Percival] (b. 1888 d. 1953) |   cornet, bandmaster |
  Collier, Frederic Redmond (b. 1884 d. 1964) |   bass-baritone |
  Coppin, George Selth (b. 1819 d. 1906 a. 1843) |   actor, singer |
  Cordner, William John (b. 1826 d. 1870) |   organ |
  Cowen, Frederic Hymen (b. 1852) |   piano, conductor |
  Crossley, Ada (Jessica) (b. 1874 d. 1929) |   contralto, mezzo-soprano |
  Dalley-Scarlett, Robert (b. 1887 d. 1959) |   music collector, conductor |
  Davies, Edward Harold (b. 1867 d. 1947 a. 1919) |   professor of music |
  Davy, Ruby Claudia Emily (b. 1883 d. 1949) |   piano, composer |
  Dawson, Peter (Smith) (b. 1882 d. 1961) |   baritone, bass-baritone |
  Deane, John Phillip (b. 1796 d. 1849) |   pioneer of music in Australia |
  Delany, John Albert (b. 1852 d. 1907) |   conductor, organ |
  Diggles, Silvester (b. 1817 d. 1880) |   naturalist, artist |
  Dodd, Josiah Eustace (b. 1856 d. 1952) |   organ builder |
  Duddy, Maude Mary (b. 1883 d. 1974) |   piano |
  Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (b. 1796 d. 1880) |   poet, student of aboriginal culture |
  Elliston, William Gore (b. 1798 d. 1872) |   musician |
  Elsasser, Carl Gottlieb (b. 1817 d. 1885 a. 1861) |   teacher, conductor |
  Ewart, Florence Maud (b. 1864 d. 1949) |   composer |
  Fincham, George (b. 1828 d. 1910) |   organ builder |
  Floyd, Alfred Ernest (b. 1877 d. 1974) |   conductor, radio musician |
  Forbes, William Anderson (b. 1839 d. 1879) |   bush balladist |
  Foster, Roland (b. 1878) |   teacher of singing |
  Francis, Leonard (b. 1866 d. 1947 a. 1905) |   choir conductor, teacher of singing |
  Fraser, Simon Alexander (b. 1845 d. 1934) |   stockrider, whip maker |
  Fuller, Benjamin (b. 1875 d. 1952) |   vaudeville entertainer |
  Goll, Edward (b. 1884 d. 1949) |   piano, teacher |
  Gordon, Margaret Jane (b. 1880 d. 1962) |   singer |
  Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) (b. 1882 d. 1961) |   composer, Klavier |
  Graves, John Woodcock (b. 1795 d. 1886) |   composer |
  Griffen Foley, James Joseph (b. 1872 d. 1924) |   journalist, singer |
  Hage, Louis [Ludwig] (b. 1863 d. 1960 a. 1886) |   conductor |
  Hall, Elsie (Maud Stanley) (b. 1877 d. 1976) |   piano |
  Hall, G.W.L. Marshall (b. 1862 d. 1915) |   composer |
  Hanson-Dyer, Louise (b. 1884 d. 1962) |   arts patron, music publisher |
  Hart, Fritz (Bennicke) (b. 1874 d. 1949) |   conductor, composer |
  Haydon, Claude M. (b. 1884 d. 1960) |   musician, teacher |
  Hayes, Catherine (b. 1825 d. 1861) |   soprano |
  Hazon, Roberto (b. 1852 d. 1920 a. 1886) |   composer, conductor |
  Heinicke, August Mortiz Hermann (b. 1863 d. 1949) |   conductor, teacher |
  Henslowe, Francis Hartwell (b. 1811 d. 1878) |   civil servant, composer |
  Herz, Julius (b. 1841 d. 1898 a. 1893) |   organ |
  Hill, Alfred Francis (b. 1870 d. 1960 a. 1897) |   composer, conductor |
  Hilliam, Bentley Collingwood (b. 1890 d. 1968) |   author, baritone sax |
  Horsley, Charles Edward (b. 1822 d. 1876) |   composer, writer |
  Hutchens, Frank (b. 1892 d. 1965) |   music educator, composer |
  Jeffries, Richard Thomas (b. 1841 d. 1920 a. 1871) |   conductor |
  John, Celia Annie (b. 1877 d. 1955) |   singer, feminist |
  Joubert, Jules Francois de Sales (b. 1824 d. 1907) |   entrepreneur |
  Keats, Horace (b. 1895 d. 1945) |   composer, conductor |
  Kelly, Frederick Septimus (b. 1881 d. 1916) |   composer, piano |
  Knowles, Conrad Theodore (b. 1810 d. 1844) |   singer, actor |
  Kruse, Johann Secundus (b. 1859 d. 1927) |   violin, conductor |
  Lavater, Louis Isidore (b. 1867 d. 1953) |   composer, poet |
  Laver, William Adolphus (b. 1866 d. 1940) |   composer, violin |
  Lawrence, Marjorie (Florence) (b. 1909 d. 1979) |   Sanger, soprano |
  Lazar, John (b. 1801 d. 1879) |   entrepreneur, actor |
  Leckie, Alexander Joseph (b. 1881 d. 1966 a. 1908) |   organ, conductor |
  Lee, David (b. 1837 d. 1897) |   organ, author |
  Lemmone, John (b. 1861 d. 1949) |   flute, composer |
  Levey, Barnett (b. 1798 d. 1837) |   singer |
  Linger, Carl Ferdinand August (b. 1810 d. 1862) |   composer, conductor |
  Lithgow, Alexander Frame (b. 1870 d. 1929) |   composer, bandmaster |
  Loitte, Lavinia Florence (b. 1881 d. 1962) |   actress, singer |
  Lumsdaine, John Sinclair (b. 1895 d. 1948) |   songwriter, vaudeville artist |
  Lyster, William Saurin (b. 1828 d. 1880) |   impresario, operatic director |
  Marsh, Stephan Hale Alonzo (b. 1805 d. 1888) |   composer, harp |
  Matthews, Julia (b. 1842 d. 1876) |   pianoforte, soprano |
  May, Sydney Lionel (b. 1882 d. 1968) |   organ, lecturer |
  McBurney, Mona Margaret (b. 1862 d. 1932) |   composer, piano |
  McBurney, Samuel (b. 1847 d. 1909) |   organ, music educator |
  McCann, Bernard Aloysius (b. 1892 d. 1961) |   bass player, entrepreneur |
  McCann, Frank [Arthur Francis] (b. 1887 d. 1966) |   silent-film pianist |
  McCann, James Robert (b. 1854 d. 1916) |   teacher, accompanist |
  McCann, James Robert (b. 1878 d. 1938) |   teacher, conductor |
  McCann, Leonard Charles (b. 1902 d. 1974) |   double bass |
  McCann, Ted [Edward John] (b. 1888 d. 1973) |   musician, radio executive |
  McEachern, Malcolm [Walter Malcolm Neil] (b. 1883 d. 1945) |   bass |
  Melba, Nellie (b. 1861) |   Sanger, soprano |
  Moncrieff, Gladys (b. 1892 d. 1976) |   musical comedy star |
  Monk, Cyril Farnsworth (b. 1882 d. 1970) |   violin |
  Moore, George Fletcher (b. 1798 d. 1889 a. 1831) |   flute, singer |
  Moore, Maggie (b. 1851 d. 1926) |   bass |
  Mummery, Browning (b. 1888 d. 1974) |   tenor |
  Murdoch, William (David) (b. 1888 d. 1942) |   piano, writer |
  Musgrove, George (b. 1854 d. 1916) |   theatrical entrepreneur |
  Nathan, Isaac (b. 1790 d. 1864 a. 1841) |   composer, tenor |
  Neild, James Edward (b. 1824 d. 1906) |   music critic |
  O'Flaherty, Eliza (b. 1818 d. 1882) |   singer, actress |
  Orchard, William Arundel (b. 1867 d. 1961) |   composer, conductor |
  Ormond, Francis (b. 1829 d. 1889) |   philanthropist |
  Ormond, Francis Guillaume (b. 1896 d. 1971) |   organ |
  Packer, Charles (Stuart Shipley) Sandys (b. 1810 d. 1883) |   organ, composer |
  Packer, Frederick Augustus (b. 1839 d. 1902) |   civil servant, musician |
  Paling, Willem Hendrik (b. 1825 d. 1895 a. 1855) |   piano maker |
  Palmer, Rosina Martha Hosanah (b. 1844 d. 1932) |   soprano |
  Pedley, Ethel Charlotte (b. 1859 d. 1898) |   composer, writer |
  Peterson, Franklin Sivewright (b. 1861 d. 1914) |   teacher, writer |
  Peterson, Georgette Augusta Christina (b. 1863 d. 1947) |   portrait painter, singer |
  Peterson, Isabel Varney Desmond (b. 1892 d. 1967) |   composer, piano |
  Reimann, Immanuel Gotthold (b. 1859 d. 1935) |   musician |
  Richardson, Charles (b. 1847 d. 1926) |   organ builder |
  Salvado, Rudescindo (b. 1814 d. 1900) |   piano, missionary |
  Sampson, George (b. 1861 d. 1949) |   composer |
  Sharp, Cecil (James) (b. 1859 d. 1924) |   folk music collector, editor |
  Sherwin, Amy (b. 1855 d. 1935) |   soprano, opera singer |
  Siede, Auguste (d. 1925) |   organ, piano |
  Siede, Julius (b. 1825 d. 1903 a. 1872) |   flute, composer |
  Simmons, Joseph (b. 1810 d. 1880) |   singer, entrepreneur |
  Slapoffski, Joseph Gustav (b. 1862 d. 1951) |   violin, music director |
  Stevens, Horace (Ernest) (b. 1876 d. 1950) |   bass-baritone |
  Stralia, Elsa (b. 1880 d. 1945) |   soprano |
  Summers, Joseph (b. 1839 d. 1917 a. 1897-1917) |   composer, organ |
  Tarczynski, Stanislav Victor (b. 1882 d. 1952) |   violin |
  Tate, Henry (b. 1873 d. 1926) |   writer, composer |
  Thatcher, Charles Robert (b. 1831 d. 1878 a. 1862-1865) |   music hall entertainer, folk musician |
  Torrance, George William (b. 1835 d. 1907 a. 1880-1882) |   clergyman, organ |
  Tritton, [Harold Percy Croydon] (b. 1886 d. 1965) |   sheep shearer, folksinger |
  Truman, Ernest Edwin Phillip (b. 1869 d. 1948) |   organ, composer |
  Turner, Walter James Redfern (b. 1889 d. 1946) |   poet, critic |
  Verbrugghen, Henri (b. 1873 d. 1934) |   violin, conductor |
  Vernon, Howard (a. 1874) |   singer |
  Wallace, Vincent [William Vincent] (b. 1812 d. 1865) |   composer |
  Weber, Horace George Martin (b. 1887 d. 1968) |   organ |
  Whitehouse, Joseph Howell (b. 1874 d. 1954) |   organ builder |
  Wiederman, Elise (b. 1851 d. 1922) |   soprano |
  Williams, Harold (b. 1893 d. 1976) |   baritone, vocals |
  Williamson, J.C. (b. 1845 d. 1913) |   theatrical entrepreneur |
  Williamson, James Cassius |   |
  Willmore, Flenrietta (b. 1842 d. 1938) |   organ |
  Wirth, George (b. 1867 d. 1941) |   bandsman, circus proprietor |
  Wirth, Philip Peter Jacob (b. 1864 d. 1937) |   bandsman, circus proprietor |
  Wood, Thomas (b. 1892 d. 1950) |   composer, author |
  Woolley, Emmeline Mary Dogherty (b. 1843 d. 1908) |   piano, composer |
  Worgan, George (b. 1802 d. 1888) |   composer, musician |
  Wyatt, Joseph (b. 1788 d. 1860) |   entrepreneur |
  Young, Charles Horace Frisbee (b. 1819 d. 1874) |   actor, singer |
  Young, Florence |   |
  Younger, Montague Thomas Robson (b. 1836 d. 1899 a. 1880) |   church musician |
  Zelman (b. 1832 d. 1907 a. 1872) |   organ |
  Zelman, Alberto (b. 1874 d. 1927) |   Dirigent, violin |