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Tom ROBERTS | Alfred Hill

Tom ROBERTS
England 1856 – Kallista 1931 AD
Australia from 1869; England, Europe 1881- 85, 1903-23

Alfred Hill 1897 , oil on cedar panel
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.