Stephen Hale Marsh
Appearance
Stephen Hale Marsh | |
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Background information | |
Born | United Kingdom | January 4, 1808
Died | January 21, 1888 | (aged 83)
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, teacher, harpist |
Instrument | Harp |
Years active | 1842-1872 |
Stephen Hale Marsh was born in the United Kingdom and lived in other countries, including Japan, but thirty productive years of his career were spent in Australia.[1] He gave popular lectures on music.[2][3] He was fondly regarded as a pioneer of music.[4] He taught singing in Sydney,[5] where he was said to raise the expectations of the audience.[6] Although he was initially an ally of fellow composer Isaac Nathan,[7] he later became a rival.
Marsh took part in the inauguration of the Victorian Academy of Music.[8] Marsh wore his beard in the chin-strap style.[9] He played and wrote music for the harp.[10]
Works
[edit]- 1824 There's a magic in thine eye, love
- 1841 Leichhardt's Return
- 1845 Australian Waltz
- 1846 Leichhardt's march
- 1851 Ferrolana Polka Opus 63 [1]
- 1854 'By Murray's Banks' - setting of bush poem by 'Ignotus' or 'Evelyn' [11]
- 1854 Liechhardt March
- 1854 Bathurst March [12]
- 1855 Brilliant fantasia
- 1856 Far O'er the Sea [13]
- 1856 Allan McGan [14]
- 1859 In Thee Oh Lord Do I Put My Trust
- 1862 (arrangeur) 'Le Bon Voyage' [15]
- 1865 'The Stockman's last bed'[16] setting of lines published as early as 1857 [17]
- 1872 Illustrations of Pipelӗ [18]
- Advance Australia
- Fair Australia Waltzes
- Hail to Victoria! Queen of the ocean
- Australian Polka
- Gentleman in Black (Opera)[19][20]
- 1896 (posthumous) Song of the Aeroplane: The Flying Machine [21]
- Japan Waltz
- Churan Waltz
- Homebush Galop
Recordings
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Skinner, Graeme (1 September 1865). "Stephen and Henry Marsh and family". University of Sydney. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ "Sydney news: music". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 10 August 1844. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Music and musicians". The Australian. 17 July 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Australian". The Australian Star. 3 April 1888. p. 5. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Music and musicians". The Australian. 12 July 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Music and musicians". The Australian. 1 August 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Mr. Nathan's concert". The Sydney Herald. 30 May 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "The Victorian Academy of Music". The Argus. 15 March 1870. p. 6. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Our portrait gallery". Illustrated Sydney News. 4 March 1854. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Reminiscences of music & ministers of music". Prahran Chronicle. 3 November 1894. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Original poetry". Illustrated Sydney News. 17 June 1854. p. 5. Retrieved 10 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 March 1854. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Review". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 December 1856. p. 5. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "The drama". Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer. 14 June 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Miscellaneous". Gippsland Times. 31 January 1862. p. 3. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Advertising". The Herald. 1 September 1865. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Bush lyrics". Bell's Life In Victoria And Sporting Chronicle. 24 January 1857. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "New music". The Border Watch. 20 July 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ Mackerras, Catherine (1974). "Marsh, Stephen Hale Alonzo (1805–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 5. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ "Music and drama". The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. 30 September 1882. p. 569. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "060.140 - The Song of the Aeroplane, or, The Flying Machine. | Levy Music Collection". levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ "Commonwealth of Australia | All England Eleven Polka". YouTube. 7 February 2019.
- ^ "Australia unite! : the road to Federation". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
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- Australian classical harpists
- 1808 births
- 1888 deaths
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- Australian male composers
- 19th-century Australian musicians
- 19th-century classical composers
- Australian male classical composers
- Australian classical composers
- Australian opera composers
- Musicians from Melbourne
- 19th-century conductors (music)
- People from the Colony of Victoria
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