biography
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| lived:
| (1909–82)
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| biography:
| Pianist and composer, born in Cape Town, SW South Africa. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and appeared in concerts in England and Europe before emigrating to Australia in 1930, where he taught at the New South Wales Conservatory. For the next 50 years he performed in recital and as a soloist with leading orchestras, in concert, and for television and radio. In 1944 he wrote his New Guinean Fantasy on that island at the height of the battle there. He was a renowned exponent of the Romantic repertoire, and especially of Rachmaninov and Liszt. |
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