Chronological list of Australian classical composers

This is a list of Australian musical composers.

Romantic

• Isaac Nathan (1790–1864)
• Carl Ferdinand August Linger (1810–1862)
• Charles Sandys Packer (1810–1883)
• Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878)
• William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
• Rosendo Salvado (1814–1900)
• William Stanley (1820–1902)
• Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876)
• Frederick Ellard (1824–1874)
• Siede, Julius (1825–1903)
• Paolo Giorza (1832–1914)
• William Robinson (1834–1897)
• George William Torrance (1835–1907)
• Frederick Augustus Packer (1839–1902)
• Joseph Summers (1839–1917)
• Leon Francois Victor Caron (1850–1907)
• Moritz Heuzenroeder (1849–1897)
• MacCarthy, Charles William (1848–1919)
• Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli (1850–1910)
• Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann (1850–1913)
• John Albert Delany (1852–1907)
• Cawthorne, Charles Wittowitto (1854–1925)
• Barnett, Neville George (1854–1895)
• Hermann Rosendoff (1860–1935)
• John Lemmone (1861–1949)
• Mona McBurney (1862–1932)
• Georgette Peterson (1863–1947)
• Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949)
• Alfred Wheeler (composer) (1865–1949)
• George Howard Clutsam (1866–1951)
• Jack (Moolbong) Johnson (1868–1943)
• Alfred Hill (1869-1960)
• Alex Frame Lithgow (1870–1929)
• Vince Courtney (unknown active 1907–1939)
• Ernest Truman
• Rosendo Salvado (1870–1900)
• Johannes Heyer (1872–1945)
• Fritz Hart (1874–1949)
• Louis Lavater (1876–1953)
• Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879–1942)
• Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881–1916 killed in action)
• Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)
• Percy Code (1888–1953)
• Horace Keats (1895–1945)
• John (Jack) Sinclair Lumsdaine (1895–1948)
• Walter Marwood Du Boulay (1898–1947)
• Hugo Alpen (1842–1917)
• Thomas Bulch (1862–1930)
• Roy Agnew (1891–1944)
• Stephen Moreno (1889–1953)
• Walter James Redfern Turner (1889–1946)
• Leo Paul Schramm (1892–1953)
• Thomas Wood (1892–1950)

Modern/contemporary

• Alfred Hill (1869–1960)
• Mirrie Hill (1889–1986)
• Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960)
• John Antill (1904–1986)
• Charles Zwar (1911–1989)
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
• Dulcie Holland (1913–2000)
• Miriam Hyde (1913–2005)
• Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014)
• John Carmichael (born 1930)
• Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003)
• Betty Beath (born 1932)
• Michael Brimer (1933–2023)
• Colin Brumby (1933–2018)
• Don Kay (born 1933)
• Larry Sitsky (born 1934)
• Ann Carr-Boyd (born 1938)
• Philip Bračanin (born 1942)
• Ross Edwards (born 1943)
• Barry Conyngham (born 1944)
• George Palmer (born 1947)
• Brenton Broadstock (born 1952)
• Carl Vine (born 1954)
• Andrew Ford (born 1957)
• Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)
• Nigel Westlake (born 1958)
• Andrew Schultz (born 1960)
• Brett Dean (born 1961)
• Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
• Deborah Cheetham (born 1964)
• Georges Lentz (born 1965)
• Constantine Koukias (born 1965)
• Liza Lim (born 1966)
• Katia Tiutiunnik (born 1967)
• David Banney (born 1968)
• Damien Ricketson (born 1973)
• Julian Cochran (born 1974)
• Nicholas Vines (born 1976)
• Michael Sollis (born 1985)

See also

• List of Australian composers
• List of Australian women composers

References

External links

• Pleskun, Stephen. (2012) A Chronological History of Australian Composers and Their Compositions: 1901–1945. Xlibris Corp, Hobart.
• Colonial Music list by Musicologist Graeme Skinner