George Tolhurst [SEP] date of death
George Tolhurst
George Tolhurst (5 June 182718 January 1877) was an English composer, resident from 1852 to 1866 in Australia.
Born in Maidstone, Kent, George emigrated to Melbourne with his father, where he practised as a teacher of music. He returned to England in 1866, and died in Barnstaple in 1877. His one large-scale composition, the oratorio "Ruth", was first performed in Prahran in Melbourne in 1864, and repeated in London in 1868. Tolhurst is therefore notable as the composer
"The Heart That's True" was set to music in 1857 by Australian composer George Tolhurst
References.
- Attribution
- Endnotes:
- Notable Women of our own Times, pp. 138–150, with portrait ;
- Miles's Poets of the Century ; Times, 26 Sep 1889;
- Daily News, 26 and 27 Sep ;
- Illustr. London News, 5 Oct, with portrait ;
- Academy and Athenæum, 28 Sep ;
- Brit. Mus. Cat.