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Early music [videos]

9 January 2012 · 1 Comment

Music from the early years of Australia. Arranged chronologically by years of prominent activity. These are “music videos”, but not necessarily video footage of the original artists. For music after this period, see the entry for “Rock music and pop music”.

song: The Song of Australia [performed by various artists, written by Caroline Carleton in 1859]

song: Advance Australia Fair [performed by various artists, written by Peter McCormick in 1878]

Nellie Melba [opera singer, 1887 to 1930]

Peter Dawson [baritone singer, 1900s to 1950s]

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  1. Stephen Hamish Darby says

    2 January 2022 at 20:29

    Australian performers are great. See also Australian COMPOSERS
    Roy Agnew (1891–1944)
    Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
    Adolphe Gustave Beutler (1887–5 June 1927)
    Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)
    Thomas (Tom) Edward Bulch (1860–1930)
    Leon Caron (1850–1907)
    Charles Cawthorne (1854–1925)
    Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1858–1914)
    Arthur Chanter (1886–1950)
    George H. Clutsam (1866–1951)
    Percy Code (1888–1953)
    Herbert Cosgrove (died 1953)
    Vince Courtney (died 1951)
    Cesare Cutolo (1826–1867)
    Ruby Claudia Davy (1883–1946)
    George De Cairos Rego (1858–1946)
    George Savin De Chanéet (1861–1926)
    John Albert Delany (1852–1907)
    Herbert De Pinna (1880–1936)
    Frederick Ellard (1824–1874)
    Maud FitzStubbs (Mrs Harry Woods) (active 1890’s)
    Edwin Fowles (1871–1945)
    Paolo Giorza (1832–1914)
    Fritz Bennicke Hart[14] (1874–1949)
    Christian Helleman (1880–1954)
    Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878)
    Julius Herz (1841–1898)
    Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849–1897)
    Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876)
    Hooper Brewster Jones (1887–1949)
    Augustus Juncker (1855–1942)
    Horace Keats (1895–1945)
    Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916)
    William Robert Knox (1861–1933)
    Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1857–1910)
    Louis Lavater (1867–1953)
    John Lemmone (1861–1949)
    Carl Linger (1810–1862)
    Alexander Frame Lithgow (1870–1929)
    Jack Lumsdaine (1895–1948)
    Charles William MacCarthy (1848–1919)
    Hector Roderick MacLean (1851–1935)
    Stephen Hale Marsh (1805–1888)
    Henry Marsh (1824–1885)
    George Marshall-Hall (1862–1915)
    Arthur Massey (1861–1950)
    Mona McBurney (1867–1932)
    Peter Dodds McCormick (1834?–1916)
    Ernest Edwin Mitchell (1865–1951)
    Stephen Moreno (1889–1953)
    Isaac Nathan (1792–1864)
    Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883)
    Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902)
    Raimund Pechotsch (died 1941)
    Georgette Augusta Christina Peterson (1863–1947)
    Alfred Plumpton (1848–1902)

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