Chronological list of Australian classical composers

Isaac Nathan c. 1820

This is a list of Australian musical composers.

Romantic

  • Isaac Nathan (1790–1864)[1]
  • Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862)[2]
  • Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883)[3]
  • Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878)[4]
  • William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
  • Rosendo Salvado (1814–1900)
  • William Stanley (1820–1902)[5]
  • Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876)[6]
  • Frederick Ellard (1824–1874)[7]
  • Siede, Julius (1825–1903)[8]
  • Paolo Giorza (1832–1914)
  • William Robinson (1834–1897)
  • George William Torrance (1835–1907)[9]
  • Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902)[10][11]
  • Joseph Summers (1839–1917)[12]
  • Leon Francois Victor Caron (1850–1907)[13]
  • Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849–1897)[14]
  • MacCarthy, Charles William (1848–1919)[15]
  • Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1850–1910)[16]
  • Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1850–1913)[17]
  • John Albert Delany (1852–1907)[18]
  • Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925)
  • Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895)[19]
  • Hermann Rosendoff (1860–1935)[20]
  • John Lemmone (1861–1949)[21][22]
  • Mona McBurney (1862–1932)[23]
  • Georgette Peterson (1863–1947)[24]
  • Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949)[25]
  • Alfred Wheeler (composer) (1865–1949)[26]
  • George Howard Clutsam (1866–1951)
  • Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943)[27]
  • Alex Frame Lithgow (1870–1929)
  • Vince Courtney (unknown active 1907–1939)[28]
  • Ernest Truman[29]
  • Rosendo Salvado (1870–1900)
  • Johannes Heyer (1872–1945)[30]
  • Fritz Hart (1874–1949)
  • Louis Lavater (1876–1953)[31][32]
  • Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879–1942)
  • Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916 killed in action)[33]
  • Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)
  • Percy Code (1888–1953)
  • Horace Keats (1895–1945)[34]
  • John (Jack) Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895–1948)[35]
  • Walter Marwood Du Boulay (1898–1947)[36]
  • Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
  • Thomas Bulch (1862–1930)
  • Roy Agnew (1891–1944)
  • Stephen Moreno (1889–1953)[37][38]
  • Walter James Redfern Turner (1889–1946)
  • Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953)[39]
  • Thomas Wood (1892–1950)[40]

Modern/contemporary

See also

  • Classical music portal
  • flagAustralia portal

References

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  • Colonial Music list by Musicologist Graeme Skinner