Tom
ROBERTS
England
1856
–
Kallista
1931 AD
Australia from 1869; England, Europe 1881- 85, 1903-23
58.3 (h) x 33.5 (w) cm
inscribed recto, l.l., 'Tom Roberts Yours truly, Alfred Hill, October 1897 [Musical stave]: Con fuoco [with fire] - Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha!' Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
Alfred Hill (1869–1960) was an Australasian composer, conductor and teacher. After several years regularly travelling between Australia and New Zealand, Hill settled in Sydney in 1911, becoming the principal of the Austral Orchestral College, and viola player in the Austral String Quartet. In 1915–16 Hill co-founded the NSW State Conservatorium of Music and became its first professor of theory and composition. He was later deputy conductor of the New South Wales State Orchestra.