biography
| name: |
Heinze, Sir Bernard Thomas
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pronunciation:
[hiynz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1982)
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| biography:
| Conductor and teacher, born in Shepparton, Victoria, SE Australia. He studied at Melbourne University, at the Royal College of Music, London, in Paris, and Berlin. He was professor of music at Melbourne University (1925–56), and director of the New South Wales Conservatory (1956–66). He was also conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1933–49), and recorded with several other orchestras. From 1932 he was music adviser to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, with whom he was instrumental in founding symphony orchestras in each Australian state. |
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