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Major Choral Organizations in Late Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2011
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Australian musical life was founded and sustained for over 150 years by a particular class of displaced British and European professional musicians, mostly men, who brought with them what is now known as Western art music. At the time of Australia's foundation, a number of British musicians (many of them composers at the rudimentary level expected of musicians of the day), unable to find work where Italians and Germans were preferred, opted for migration to the colonies in the hope of trading their way out of a difficult situation. Some took ship to avoid the law (the debt-ridden composer Isaac Nathan for example), some came as farmers or joined the gold rushes, only to fail and have to turn to their musical skills again to earn a living (William Vincent Wallace, composer of one of the nineteenth century's most popular operas, Maritana, comes to mind).
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105 Mitglieder Liste der Melbourne [sic] Deutschen Liedertafel. The earliest dated entry is 15 August 1868 and the last is in 1878. There are 111 names without occupations listed and a total, both German and English, of 516 members who joined in this ten-year period. Addresses are usually those of city business places, not home addresses, implying that most of the members worked in the city. A very few could be said to be engaged in manual labour. Many were engaged in trades.
106 MelbL Minutes, 13, 27 Jan. and 28 Feb. 1879 (1878–95).
107 MelbL AR (1880–1904).
108 MelbL Concert programme, 13 May 1889.
109 MelbL Minutes, 29 Sep. 1885 (1878–95).
110 It had received official status by being elected annually and requiring each member to pay yearly fees of 10/6. MelbL AR, 1890–91 (1880–1904).
111 MelbL Minutes, 12 Feb. 1880 (1878–95).
112 MelbL AR, 9 Mar. 1880 (1880–1904).
113 MelbL AR, pamphlet dated 21 Mar. 1882 (1880–1904).
114 MelbL AR, 1882 (1880–1904).
115 Argus (16 Feb. 1886).
116 MelbL AR, 1888–89 (1880–1904).
117 Argus (4 Oct. 1881).
118 MetL AR, 1894–95 (1874–1903).
119 MelbL AR, 1890–91 (1880–1904).
120 This was a benefit for the widow of deceased member, Mr J.M. Nelson. Herald (4 Oct. 1881), MetL Scrapbook (1881–83). For further discussion of smoke nights see Jennifer Hill, ‘“A Source of Enjoyment”: The Social Dimension of the Melbourne Liedertafels in the Late Nineteenth Century’ (this issue).
121 MetL Concert programmes, 1883–96.
122 MetL AR, 1876 with an undated modern clipping, loose (1874–1903).
123 All known programmes have been entered into the Database of Melbourne Concert Life, housed at the Centre for Studies in Australian Music, University of Melbourne. A list of concerts given and assisted at from 1888 to 1902 is given for the Melbourne Liedertafel and the Metropolitan Liedertafel in Radic, PhD diss., vol. 2, 596–600.
124 The choir numbers are recorded in the MetL ARs and in programmes, but the figures given are not consistent.
125 MetL AR, 1875–76 and 1879–80 (1874–1903).
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128 MelbL AR (1880–1904).
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130 MelbL Minutes, 25 Nov. 1885, possibly wrongly dated as it lies in the 1884 context (1878–95).
131 MelbL Minutes, 8 Mar. 1886 and 24 Apr. 1888 (1878–95).
132 MetL AR, 1888–89 (1874–1903).
133 MelbL Minutes, 1 Apr. 1889 (1878–95).
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144 MelbL AR, 1888–89 (1880–1904).
145 Daily Telegraph (16 Sep. 1879); Argus (16 Sep. 1879).
146 MelbL Minutes, 23 Dec. 1879 and 23 Nov. 1880 (1878–95).
147 MelbL AR, 1890–91 (1880–1904). Radic, PhD diss., vol. 1, sec. 2.
148 Both sexes were members of this group. MetL AR, 1889–90 (1874–1903).
149 MetL AR, 1883–84 (1874–1903).
150 MelbL Minutes, 9 Sep. 1879 (1878–95).
151 Daily Telegraph (25 Oct. 1881); Age (25 Oct. 1881).
152 MetL AR, 1881–82 (1874–1903). For the programmes played, venues played in and groups played with, see Radic, MMus diss.: 522–3. See also Dowell, Richard M., ‘The Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston’, PhD diss., Kent State University, 1999Google Scholar.
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155 As an example, Julius Siede dedicated a waltz, ‘Happy Hours’, to the wife of the patron of the Melbourne Liedertafel, then simply the Hon. W.T. and Mrs Clarke. He presented it at a concert prior to their departure for England. This ensured that it would be played from time to time as a compliment to Mrs Clarke.
156 See Royle, ‘Musical (Ad)venturers’.
157 Love suggests that Link was engaged by W.S. Lyster especially for this production. It was given eight years behind New York but apparently ahead of any other cities in the Americas, the first production in New Orleans being in the following December. The aim was to follow Wagner's intentions as closely as was possible, hence the importation of Link, who was acquainted with the authentic Wagnerian tradition. Orchard, , Music in Australia: 150Google Scholar; Love, , Golden Age: 252–4Google Scholar.
158 MelbL Minutes, 23 Mar. 1886 and 12 Jul. 1888 (1878–95).
159 MetL AR, 1886–87 (1874–1903).
160 MelbL AR, 1886–87 (1880–1904).
161 MelbL Scrapbook, undated clipping in 1889 context (1879–89).
162 MelbL Minutes, 16 Jan. 1883 (1878–95).
163 MetL AR, 1891–92 (1874–1903).
164 MetL Scrapbook, undated clipping, ‘Ladies Column’ (ref 147) in 1883 context (1881–83).
165 Musical World (14 Aug. 1883).
166 MelbL AR, 1889–90 (1880–1904).
167 MelbL Minutes, 3 Apr. 1891 (1878–95).
168 MelbL AR, 1890–91 (1880–1904).
169 MelbL Scrapbook, undated newspaper clipping (1892–93).
170 In 1901 this prince returned as the Prince of Wales to attend the official opening of the first Australian Parliament in the same building. George was the inheriting son of King Edward VII, and grandson of Queen Victoria.
171 Radic, MMus diss., vol. 2: 244–6.
172 Australasian (9 Jul. 1881); MetL Scrapbook, Argus clipping hand dated 20 June 1882 (ref 66), the date however being in doubt (1881–83).
173 MetL AR, 1894–95 (1874–1903).
174 MetL AR, 1881–82 (1874–1903).
175 Argus (27 Sep. 1881).
176 MetL AR, 1890–91 (1874–1903).
177 MetL AR, 1881–82 (1874–1903); Geelong Advertiser (1 Jul. 1882).
178 MetL AR, 1883–84 (1874–1903).
179 MetL AR, 1886–87 (1874–1903).
180 MetL AR, 3 Oct. 1876, 28 Sep. 1880 and 1883–84 (1874–1903).
181 Argus (4 Oct. 1883).
182 Federal Australian (7 Apr. 1881).
183 MelbL Scrapbook, undated clipping from Australasian in 1880–81 context (1879–89).
184 Evening Herald (4 Oct. 1881).
185 Daily Telegraph (17 Nov. 1891).
186 Daily Telegraph (23 Feb. 1892).
187 Argus (17 Mar. 1894).
188 Argus (17 Mar. 1894).
189 Mackerness, ‘James Hamilton Clarke’.
190 Henry Keiley (1831–89) arrived in 1852 and was involved in mining. He was also a choir conductor and musician and music critic for the Argus between 1869 and 1889. Gibbney, and Smith, , Biographical Register: 386Google Scholar.
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193 Noel Wilmott notes that there are Liedertafels still in Tanunda and in Adelaide. In Melbourne there was, in 1993, a Liedertafel Arion. All of them appear to be German societies. ‘Liedertafel’, OCAM: 343.