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| Born | 29 December 1869 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England |
| Died | 6 October 1948 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Organist |
| Years active | 1890-1910 |
Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (29 December 1869 - 6 October 1948) was an Australian organist and a composer of light romantic era classical music.
Truman was born was in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Son of Edwin Philip Truman, a fishmonger, and Elizabeth Robinson Crawfurd Smith. [1] His family emigrated to Melbourne and then New Zealand, before settling in Hunters Hill, a suburb of Sydney, in 1885. [2] [3]
Truman was taught music by his father, then studied under Arthur J. Barth of Dunedin, New Zealand and Julius Buddee of Sydney.
From 1888 until 1893, Truman attended Leipzig Conservatory along with Australian Alfred Hill. [4] While at Leipzig he composed 26 fugues, as a result of which he was known at the Conservatorium as "The English Bach". [5]
Upon his return to Sydney, he became organist at Christ Church St Laurence from 1893 until 1896. [6] He also presided at the console of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney and St Patrick's, Church Hill in Sydney. [4]
He was appointed City Organist in 1909 and presided at the Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ until 1935. [7] He was the most competitive organist in New South Wales when appointed Sydney city organist [8] in which role he held at least 3,000 recitals. [9]
He accompanied many famous singers, including Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Florence Austral, Lawrence Tibbett and Richard Crooks. [10]
His ensemble pieces, still performed at festivals and music schools, are regarded as exemplary. [11] Some of his works, such as In The Woods of Dandenong were influential in being early examples of an impressionist school of Australian music.
Performed by Dimity Shepherd, mezzo-soprano and Stefan Cassomenos, piano.
St James' Church, commonly known as St James', King Street, is an Australian heritage-listed Anglican parish church located at 173 King Street, in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales. Consecrated in February 1824 and named in honour of St James the Great, it became a parish church in 1835. Designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, St James' is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street which includes other early colonial era buildings such as the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks.
Harold Edwin Darke was an English composer and organist. He is particularly known for his choral compositions, which are an established part of the respertoire of Anglican church music. Darke had a fifty-year association with the church of St Michael, Cornhill, in the City of London.
Edwin Henry Lemare was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. He was one of the most highly regarded and highly paid organists of his generation, as well as the greatest performer and one of the most important composers of the late Romantic English-American Organ School.
Craig Sellar Lang was a New Zealand-born British organist, composer and music teacher.
B.B. Whitehouse, later known as Whitehouse Brothers, were organ builders based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Clarence M. "Jack" Leumane was an English-born singer, actor, songwriter and librettist. He played leading tenor roles in opera, especially the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, in the 1880s, first in Britain and then Australia. He was also a librettist and writer of the song "The Lambton Worm" in 1867.
This is a list of Australian musical composers.
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Frenchs Forest Bushland Cemetery is located in the suburb of Frenchs Forest occupying an area of 22 hectares. It is one of the main cemeteries on the Northern Beaches and is the only cemetery in the Forest district. It has been managed since 29 June 2012 by the Northern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
John Matthew Ennis, invariably referred to as Matthew Ennis or J. Matthew Ennis, was an English pianist and organist who had a substantial academic career in Adelaide, South Australia.
St Paul's Anglican Church and Pipe Organ is a heritage-listed Anglican church building and pipe organ located at 205 Burwood Road in the Sydney suburb of Burwood in the Municipality of Burwood local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The church was designed by Edmund Blacket and the organ was designed by William Davidson, with some consultation from Montague Younger. The church and organ were built from 1889 to 1891. The church is also known as St. Paul's Anglican Church and Pipe Organ, St Paul's Anglican Church and Davidson Pipe Organ. The property is owned by Anglican Church Property Trust. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Annie May Constance Summerbelle was an Australian composer of light classical and popular music. She was the third daughter of Captain William and Honoriah Summerbelle of Double Bay. Her sister, Stella Clare, married Francis Joseph Bayldon, a master mariner and nautical instructor. From the late 1880s she was a student of Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann, with Summerbelle's earliest compositions appearing in the early 1890s.
Gorjes Christian Crawford-Hellemann was an Australian composer, conductor and organist. He was born in 1881 to William Thomas and Harriet Ann Crawford-Hellemann in Towrang, NSW Australia. He was an Associate of the Royal College of Music. He was organist of Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, 1927-1931 and 1933–1934. He died 26 February 1954.
Fred Werner born Gottfried W Werner was an Australian composer, music teacher. He was possibly born near Berlin where he attended the prestigious Stern Conservatory and studied under Polish composer Theodor Kullak. He migrated to Coolabah near Dubbo in New South Wales, Australia around 1890. In 1902 he married Emma Durrell and had a son Charles. In 1910 he was appointed to the Staff of Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he taught keyboard and held several recitals. In 1915 he left teaching, possibly due to wartime Australian racism, and in 1916 he became licensee at the Coolabah Hotel His best known student was Kate Rooney who succeeded in tours of London and USA
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Arthur John Mason was an Australian organist and journalist, remembered as Sydney City Organist from 1901 to 1907, when he moved to London as correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. He was a son of George Birkbeck Mason, musician and entrepreneur, and grandson of Abraham John Mason, wood engraver of London and New York.
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