Stephen Hale Marsh
Portrait of Stephen Marsh
Portrait of Marsh
Background information
Born(1808-01-04)January 4, 1808
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
DiedJanuary 21, 1888(1888-01-21) (aged 83)
Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, teacher, harpist
Instrument(s)Harp
Years active1842-1872

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

  • 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' [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

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 (1805–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 5. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. 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.
  23. ↑ "Australia unite! : the road to Federation". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 2022-12-21.

 


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