Australian dictionary of biography
| Books | TheMusicSack | People |
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| 1966 |
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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 |