Alfred Hill's Symphony No. 3 'Australia' is identified with a literary program, inscribed on the inside cover of the full score, which describes the Australian landscape and its people.
Composer Biography
Alfred Hill studied at the Royal Conservatory at Leipzig, Germany, in 1887, under the directorship of Carl Reinecke, who later engaged Hill for his orchestra.
Composition History
The Symphony No. 3 'Australia' incorporates sections of a soundtrack Alfred Hill composed for the film production 'Arnhem Land' in association with author-anthropologist C.P. Mountford.
Composer Biography
Alfred Hill, the composer, contributed to Australian and New Zealand musical life as a composer, conductor, instrumentalist, pedagogue, and polemicist.
Composition History
Alfred Hill's Symphony No. 3, 'Australia', and Symphony No. 7 are revisions of his earlier string quartets and other chamber works.
Performer Biography
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1947, is directed by its chief conductor, Muhai Tang, whose early development was fostered by Herbert von Karajan.
Performer Biography
Wilfred Lehmann, the conductor, is an internationally acclaimed violinist who won first prize in the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in 1958.
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