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Stephen Hale Marsh
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Background information
Born(1808-01-04)January 4, 1808
United Kingdom
DiedJanuary 21, 1888(1888-01-21) (aged 83)
Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, teacher, harpist
InstrumentHarp
Years active1842-1872
Musical artist

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. He gave popular lectures on music. He was fondly regarded as a pioneer of music. He taught singing in Sydney, where he was said to raise the expectations of the audience. Although he was initially an ally of fellow composer Isaac Nathan, he later became a rival.

Marsh took part in the inauguration of the Victorian Academy of Music. Marsh wore his beard in the chin-strap style. He played and wrote music for the harp.

Works

  • 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
  • 1854 'By Murray's Banks' - setting of bush poem by 'Ignotus' or 'Evelyn'
  • 1854 Liechhardt March
  • 1854 Bathurst March
  • 1855 Brilliant fantasia
  • 1856 Far O'er the Sea
  • 1856 Allan McGan
  • 1859 In Thee Oh Lord Do I Put My Trust
  • 1862 (arrangeur) 'Le Bon Voyage'
  • 1865 'The Stockman's last bed' setting of lines published as early as 1857
  • 1872 Illustrations of Pipelำ—
  • Advance Australia
  • Fair Australia Waltzes
  • Hail to Victoria! Queen of the ocean
  • Australian Polka
  • Gentleman in Black (Opera)
  • 1896 (posthumous) Song of the Aeroplane: The Flying Machine
  • Japan Waltz
  • Churan Waltz
  • Homebush Galop

Recordings

  • All England Eleven Polka

References

  1. Skinner, Graeme (1 September 1865). "Stephen and Henry Marsh and family". University of Sydney. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  2. "Sydney news: music". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 10 August 1844. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  3. "Music and musicians". The Australian. 17 July 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  4. "Australian". The Australian Star. 3 April 1888. p. 5. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  5. "Music and musicians". The Australian. 12 July 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  6. "Music and musicians". The Australian. 1 August 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  7. "Mr. Nathan's concert". The Sydney Herald. 30 May 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  8. "The Victorian Academy of Music". The Argus. 15 March 1870. p. 6. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  9. "Our portrait gallery". Illustrated Sydney News. 4 March 1854. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  10. "Reminiscences of music & ministers of music". Prahran Chronicle. 3 November 1894. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  11. "Original poetry". Illustrated Sydney News. 17 June 1854. p. 5. Retrieved 10 December 2022 – via Trove.
  12. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 March 1854. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  13. "Review". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 December 1856. p. 5. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  14. "The drama". Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer. 14 June 1856. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  15. "Miscellaneous". Gippsland Times. 31 January 1862. p. 3. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  16. "Advertising". The Herald. 1 September 1865. p. 1. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  17. "Bush lyrics". Bell's Life In Victoria And Sporting Chronicle. 24 January 1857. p. 4. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  18. "New music". The Border Watch. 20 July 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  19. Mackerras, Catherine (1974). "Marsh, Stephen Hale Alonzo (1805โ€“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.
  20. "Music and drama". The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. 30 September 1882. p. 569. Retrieved 9 December 2022 – via Trove.
  21. "060.140 - The Song of the Aeroplane, or, The Flying Machine. | Levy Music Collection". levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  22. "Commonwealth of Australia | All England Eleven Polka". YouTube. 7 February 2019.
  23. "Australia unite! : the road to Federation". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 2022-12-21.

 


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