Chronological list of Australian classical composers
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This is a list of Australian musical composers.
Romantic
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- Isaac Nathan (1790–1864){{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26335389?q&versionId=31727481|title=Portrait of Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer|type=picture|via=Trove}}
- Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=linger-carl-ferdinand-august-4024|title=Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862)|volume=5|year=1974|author=John Horner}}
- Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=packer-charles-sandys-stuart-shipley-4353|title=Charles Sandys (Stuart Shipley) Packer (1810–1883)|author=E. J. Lea-Scarlett|volume=5|year=1974}}
- Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=henslowe-francis-hartwell-2178|title=Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878)|author=G. T. Stilwell|volume=1|year=1966}}
- William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
- Rosendo Salvado (1814–1900)
- William Stanley (1820–1902){{Cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/paradisec/australharmony/stanley-william.php|title = Australharmony - William Stanley}}
- Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=horsley-charles-edward-3800|title=Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876)|author=Thérèse Radic|volume=4|year=1972}}
- Frederick Ellard (1824–1874){{Cite web|url=http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/ellard_frederick|title = Ellard, Frederick | the Dictionary of Sydney}}
- Siede, Julius (1825–1903){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=siede-julius-4579|title=Julius Siede (1825–1903)|author=Thérèse Radic|volume=6|year=1976}}
- Paolo Giorza (1832–1914)
- William Robinson (1834–1897)
- George William Torrance (1835–1907){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=torrance-george-william-4737|title=George William Torrance (1835–1907)|author=Robin S. Stevens|volume=6|year=1976}}
- Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902){{cite web|url=http://kellygarland.com.au/music/the-packer-project/|title=The Packer Project|work=kellygarland.com.au|access-date=17 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222224540/http://kellygarland.com.au/music/the-packer-project/|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=dead}}{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=packer-frederick-augustus-4354|title=Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902)|author=R. L. Wettenhall|volume=5|year=1974}}
- Joseph Summers (1839–1917){{cite web|url=https://ozvta.com/music-directors-composers-other/2/|access-date=9 May 2024|title=Music Directors & Composers [Other] Robertson to Zwar|publisher=Australian Variety Theatre Archive|date=15 December 2011}}
- Leon Francois Victor Caron (1850–1907){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=caron-leon-francis-victor-3167|title=Leon Francis Victor Caron (1850–1905)|author=Kenneth Hince|volume=3|year=1969}}
- Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849–1897){{Cite web|url=http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/H/c218573E.htm|title=Moritz Heuzenroeder}}
- MacCarthy, Charles William (1848–1919){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=maccarthy-charles-william-7305|title=Charles William MacCarthy (1848–1919)|author=G. P. Walsh|volume=10|year=1986}}
- Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1850–1910){{cite web|url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A124720|title=Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli|author=Austlit|work=austlit.edu.au}}
- Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1850–1913){{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/679082|title=Charbonnet Kellermann, Alice|work=nla.gov.au}}
- John Albert Delany (1852–1907){{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn5715566|title=Digital Collections – Music – Delany, J. A. (John Albert), 1852–1907. Mass in F [music] : for solo, tutti, organ and orchestra|work=nla.gov.au}}
- Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925)
- Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=barnett-neville-george-2940|title=Neville George Barnett (1854–1895)|author=E. J. Lea-Scarlett|volume=3|year=1969}}
- Hermann Rosendoff (1860–1935){{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/184123105|title=Hermann Rosendorff – Version details – Trove|work=nla.gov.au}}
- John Lemmone (1861–1949){{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an6767319|title=Digital Collections – Music – Lemmone, John, 1861–1949. Ave Maria [music]|work=nla.gov.au}}performing Donizetti in title 268587 at Australian National Film and Sound Archive{{full citation needed|date=May 2024}}
- Mona McBurney (1862–1932){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=mcburney-mona-margaret-7297|title=Mona Margaret McBurney (1862–1932)|author=Faye E. Patton|volume=10|year=1986}}
- Georgette Peterson (1863–1947){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=peterson-georgette-augusta-christina-8543|title=Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson (1863–1947)|author=Faye E. Patton|volume=11|year=1988|type=minor entry in 'Franklin Sievright Peterson (1861–1914)'}}
- Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=ewart-florence-maud-6125|title=Florence Maud Ewart (1864–1949)|author=Thérèse Radic|volume=8|year=1981}}
- Alfred Wheeler (composer) (1865–1949){{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/532324?q=alfred+wheeler&c=people|title=Wheeler, Alfred (1865–1949)|work=nla.gov.au}}
- George Howard Clutsam (1866–1951)
- Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=johnson-jack-moolbong-10631|title=Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943)|author=Tamsin Donaldson|volume=14|year=1996}}
- Alfred Hill (1869-1960)
- Alex Frame Lithgow (1870–1929)
- Vince Courtney (unknown active 1907–1939){{cite web|url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/OLD?id=C%23Hl%7B&idtype=oldid|title=Vince Courtney (1927–1933)|author=Austlit|work=austlit.edu.au}}
- Ernest Truman{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=truman-ernest-edwin-philip-8858|title=Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (1869–1948)|author=G. D. Rushworth|volume=12|year=1990}}
- Rosendo Salvado (1870–1900)
- Johannes Heyer (1872–1945){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=heyer-johannes-6656|title=Johannes Heyer (1872–1945)|author=Chris Mostert|volume=9=year=1983}}
- Fritz Hart (1874–1949)
- Louis Lavater (1876–1953){{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153921373|title=Louis Lavater – Version details – Trove|work=nla.gov.au}}{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=lavater-louis-isidore-7107|title=Louis Isidore Lavater (1867–1953)|author=Valerie Kent|volume=10|year=1986}}
- Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879–1942)
- Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916 killed in action){{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/642273?c=people|title=Kelly, F. S. (Frederick Septimus)|work=nla.gov.au}}
- Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)
- Percy Code (1888–1953)
- Horace Keats (1895–1945){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=keats-horace-stanley-6906|title=Horace Stanley Keats (1895–1945)|author=Warren A. Bebbington|author-link=Warren Bebbington|volume=9|year=1983}}
- John (Jack) Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895–1948){{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an5397687|title=Digital Collections – Music – Stoneham, Reginald A. A., 1879–1942. Lolita [music] : Mexican waltz song|work=nla.gov.au}}
- Walter Marwood Du Boulay (1898–1947){{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67836039|title=09 Jan 1947 – A Geraldton Identity Death of Mr. W. M du Boulay...|work=nla.gov.au|date=9 January 1947 }}
- Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
- Thomas Bulch (1862–1930)
- Roy Agnew (1891–1944)
- Stephen Moreno (1889–1953){{cite web|url=http://www.move.com.au/disc/new-norcia-a-spanish-rhapsody|title=New Norcia: A Spanish Rhapsody|work=move.com.au}}{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=moreno-stephen-11160|title=Stephen Moreno (1889–1953)|author=Judith M. Woodward|volume=15|year=2000}}
- Walter James Redfern Turner (1889–1946)
- Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=schramm-leo-paul-11634|title=Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953)|author=Ross Somerville|volume=16|year=2002}}
- Thomas Wood (1892–1950){{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=wood-thomas-9171|title=Thomas Wood (1892–1950)|author=Russel Ward|volume=12|year=1990}}
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Modern/contemporary
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- Mirrie Hill (1889–1986)
- Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960)
- John Antill (1904–1986)
- Charles Zwar (1911–1989)
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
- Alfred Hill (1869–1960){{cite web|url=https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hill-alfred-1332013.pdf|access-date=9 May 2024|title=Alfred Hill|author=Clay Djubal|date=13 March 2013|publisher=Australian Variety Theatre Archive}}
- Dulcie Holland (1913–2000)
- Miriam Hyde (1913–2005)
- Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014)
- John Carmichael (born 1930)
- Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003)
- Betty Beath (born 1932)
- Michael Brimer (born 1933)
- Colin Brumby (1933–2018)
- Don Kay (born 1933)
- Larry Sitsky (born 1933)
- Ann Carr-Boyd (born 1938)
- Philip Bračanin (born 1942)
- Ross Edwards (born 1943)
- Alison Bauld (born 1944)
- Barry Conyngham (born 1944)
- George Palmer (born 1947)
- Brenton Broadstock (born 1952)
- Carl Vine (born 1954)
- Andrew Ford (born 1957)
- Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
- Nigel Westlake (born 1958)
- Andrew Schultz (born 1960)
- Brett Dean (born 1961)
- Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
- Deborah Cheetham (born 1964)
- Georges Lentz (born 1965)
- Constantine Koukias (born 1965)
- Liza Lim (born 1966)
- Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967)
- David Banney (born 1967)
- Damien Ricketson (born 1973)
- Julian Cochran (born 1974)
- Nicholas Vines (born 1976)
- Michael Sollis (born 1985)
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See also
{{Portal|Classical music|Australia}}
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References
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External links
- Pleskun, Stephen. (2012) A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions: 1901–1945. Xlibris Corp, Hobart.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140124033815/http://graemeskinner.id.au/ Colonial Music list by Musicologist Graeme Skinner]