Impett, Walter
Innes, Joseph Langlands
Jenkins, Edgar Henry
Johnson, Charles Bartley
Jones, Frederick Wynne
Jones, William Michael Angelo
Jupp, William James
Kee, Won
Keesing, Samuel Rothschild
Kelsley, Arnold R.
Kennedy, George Alexander
Kenny, David Alexander
King, Edwin James
Key, Harry, see Fountain, Henry
King, Edwin James Jnr
King, Francis Arthur
Kinnear, Jessie Swift
Klippel, Alec
Lambert, Samuel John
Lee, William James
Leech, Frederick
Lelievre-Lee, Amelia Winifred
Lemmer, Julius
Leward, Frank
Lewis Eady Limited
Lewis, Phyllis M.
Light, Harold Edwin
Lillicrap, Douglas Vernon
Lillicrap, Francis James
Lilly, Arthur
Lo Keong, Tilly
Lockyer, Francis Henry (Frank)
Lund, Hermann Maier
Impett, Walter
Music teacher, organist, pianist, music critic and composer
Born: 1868, England
Died: 1952, Auckland
Impett came to New Zealand as a child and worked in New Zealand his entire life, primarily in Auckland but also for almost 10 years in Whanganui where he was party to the establishment of the Wanganui Liedertafel choir.
Impett returned to Auckland taking up in 1904 the position of organist and choirmaster at St James Presbyterian Church, a role he was to retain until 1945. Of his compositions his piano piece, The Chimes was produced in 4 different editions and his Echos de nuit, and Amber glows received considerable contemporary popularity. A number of his pieces were of topical interest, such as his Red Cross Nurse, written to raise funds for the Red Cross service during World War 1.
Along with his teaching and church musician duties, Impett acted as a music critic for the New Zealand Herald and presented lectures on musical subjects both in person and on the radio.
Compositions:
The Chimes. (Auckland: New Zealand Graphic, 1894) and 3 later editions
Echos de nuit. (Auckland: Wright, 1894) and 1911 Eady edition
New Zealand’s dark men. (Wellington: McKee and Gamble, 1896?)
Marche de Palatine. (Auckland: A. Eady, 1897)
Two sapphires. (Dunedin: Triad, 1899)
Motherland. (Auckland: A. Eady, 1900)
Night patrol. (Auckland: A. Eady, 1901)
Christmas carol. (Wellington: New Zealand Times, 1903)
In the cloisters. (Dunedin: Triad, 1903)
April here, and April there. In: Zealandia song book, Vol. III) (Auckland: Upton. 1907)
Song of the scout. (Sydney: Alberts, 1911)
That golden day. (Auckland: A. Eady, 1912)
Amber glow. (Auckland: 1913)
Red cross nurse. (Auckland: Wilson and Horton, 1918)
Resources
Nichol, E. Dedicated to the colonial music-loving public. p.74-77. DOI https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/35499
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Innes, Joseph Langlands
Music teacher, school teacher, composer
Born: 1864, Scotland
Died: 1939, Auckland?
Active in New Zealand: 1889-1939
A life-long advocate of the Tonic Sol-Fa system, Innes arrived in Auckland in 1889 from Dumbarton, Scotland and set up classes in the system. A licentiate of the Tonic Sol-Fa College, he was also the conductor of the Gospel Temperance Choir, chor leader of the Grange Rd Baptist Church, and President of the Auckland Society of Musicians. His teaching career took him to Newton West Public School, Tapu, Matakana and Henderson schools, and he became an examiner for music teachers for the Education Board.
He edited the three volumes of Zealandia, a song book for New Zealand schools. First published in tonic sol-fa then re-published in staff notation, the second and thord volumes included a number of songs written by Innes, including The Tui bird, which achieved wide popularity.
Compositions
Zealandia song book. 3 vols. (London: Curwen, 1907, and Wellington: Dept of Education).
Volume II contains the following songs by Innes: Stars that gem, With happy hearts, Merrily sing, Thos evening bells, Montgomery, Away among the blossoms, The tui bird, I love the happy sunshine, Zealandia.
Volume III contains the following songs by Innes: My native land, The new Motherland, Dunedin from the Bay, A hymn for New Zealand.
Resources:
For discussion on the popularity of The tui bird see Annabell, A. “New Zealand’s cultural and economic development” (PhD thesis, University of Auckland), pp154-162.
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Jenkins, Edgar Henry
Organ builder, organ and piano tuner, musical instrument repairer
Born: 1836, Poole, England
Died: April 1924, Christchurch
Active in New Zealand: 1871-c1913
Born in Dorsetshire, Edgar Jenkins trained as an organ builder with Hill & Son of London. He enlisted and fought in the Royal Artillery during the Crimean War. On his discharge in 1858 he moved to Paris to gain further experience in his trade and there worked with Cavaille, Coll & Co for several years. He later returned to Hill & Co in London.
In 1869 he arrived in New Zealand on the Glenmark and took up a position as manager of the Kaiapoi Flax Mills (later the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills) which was owned by his brother. In 1871 he resumed his trade and settled in Christchurch.
Edgar Jenkins built and erected many of the Christchurch organs and also built instruments in Dunedin, Whanganui, Gisborne and Wellington. In 1907 he entered into a partnership with Herbert Brett, which was dissolved in 1909. Jenkins’ son later worked with his father.
Other resources
Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Canterbury Provincial District, 1903, p.235 (photo source).
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Johnson, Charles Bartley
Violin maker, organ case builder, cabinet maker
Born: 1857, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Died: 1940, New Plymouth
Active in New Zealand: 1874-1940
Working first in Auckland, Johnson received his training as a cabinet maker in New Plymouth. One of his instruments was reported to have been played and approved of by travelling violinist Ovide Musin in 1892. One of his violins is in the collection of Puke Ariki, New Plymouth. He also made the case for the organ at the Hawera Wesley Church.
Other resources
“Charles Johnson – violin maker”. Hawera Star, October 21, 1999, p29 (includes illustration)
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Jones, Frederick Wynne
Music retailer, publisher, composer
Born: 1870, Christchurch
Died: 1938, U.S.A.
Active in New Zealand: 1883-c1899
Frederick Jones worked for George Reichardt for twelve years before opening his own music business in 1895. His composition Barn Dance (c1891) was very successful and published in Australia and Britain as well as New Zealand. He later moved to Australia.
Compositions
Exhibition waltz. (Wellington: Geo. Reichardt, 1885)
Zealandia jubilee waltz. 1887
Onslow march. (Wellington: 1887)
Barn dance. (Multiple editions and dates)
Other resources
Cyclopedia of New Zealand (Wellington district), p. 451
Australharmony for information on Frederick Jones’ activities in Australia
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Jones, William Michael Angelo
Piano tuner. organist, music teacher, composer
Born: 1855, Wales
Died: 1938, Wales
Active in New Zealand: 1877?-1904
Jones acted as a piano tuner and agent for Begg’s and lived in Dunedin and Oamaru. After his divorce in 1886 he moved and finally settled in Greymouth where he continued his business as a piano tuner and repairer as well as being organist for the Methodist Church. He was also an agent for pianos sold through the DIC company. In 1904 he left for a position in Johannesburg, where his death was reported the following year.However, he appears to have returned to Wales and lived for over another 30 years.
Compositions
Wreck of the Tararua: cantata. (Unpublished, 1885)
Zealandia waltz. (Dunedin: Kelsey, 1879)
Dunedin chimes waltz. (Dunedin: 1882)
Otago Daily Times mazurka. (Dunedin: Kelsey, 1882)
Other resources
Templeton, C. T. ‘A poem with a tale’, New Zealand Organ News, vol. 51, no. 1, pp.41-3.
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Jupp, William James
Bandleader, cornet player, wood turner
Born: 1862, Tunbridge Wells, England
Died: 1937, Wellington
Active in New Zealand: 1874-1937
William Jupp was the founder and conductor of one of the longest surviving private brass bands in New Zealand. A cornet player, he established Jupp’s Private Band in 1889 and the band continued under that name for over 25 years, performing at local events and taking part in the Brass Band competitions. It continued as the Wellington Patriotic Society’s Band, and later the Legion of Frontiersmen’s Band. He also composed a number of works which were performed by the band.
Compositions:
Nyanza, waltz. (Unpublished, 1891)
Te Puni polka. (Unpublished, 1891)
Tui waltz. (Wellington: Bock, 1892)
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Kee, Won
Chinese plucked stringed instrument player, concert organiser, businessman, philanthropist
Born: Southern China?
Died: 194?, Dunedin
Active in New Zealand: 187?-1897
Won (sometimes Woon or Wong) Key was a respected storekeeper in Cromwell who also had an interest in various mining operations. He contributed to a number of local charities and on occasions organised for a Chinese orchestra to perform. He himself is recorded as performing on the banjo, which is more likely to have been one of the traditional Chinese plucked instruments. He also hosted celebrations of the Chinese New Year which included performances of traditional Chinese music.
Resources
Johnson, Henry. “Won Kee: A Historico-Biographical Study of Creativity, Inter-Cultural Intervention, and Discrimination in a Nineteenth-Century Goldmining Setting in Aotearoa New Zealand”. Asian Conference on Asian Studies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-4735.2021.9
Ng, James. Windows on a Chinese past. (Dunedin: Otago Heritage Books, 1993) v.3.
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Keesing, Samuel Rothschild
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Artist, composer, baritone
Born: 1858, Auckland
Died: 1895, Brighton, England
Samuel Kessing was a member of the prominent Keesing family in Auckland. He was a skilled artist as well as musician. He exhibited at a number of shows, winning prizes and intended to study art in Europe. He was a member of the Auckland Amateur Dramatic Society and played the piano and sang at various miscellaneous concerts. Both his compositions from 1880 were for the piano. Family history notes that he performed on the piano in the USA under the name Harcourt Fern and that he had also sung professionally in Italy.
Compositions
Hercules galop. Auckland: Auckland Music Warehouse, 1880
Hinemoa waltz. Auckland: New Zealand Muse, 1880.
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Kelsey, Arnold R.
Organist, choir master, teacher, music dealer
Born: ?, London
Died: 1922, Australia
Active in New Zealand: 1877-1886
Arnold Kelsey was very involved in musical activities in Dunedin as conductor of the Dunedin Choral Society, St Matthew’s Choir and the Private Motet and Glee Society. He established a music retail business in Dunedin in 1879. In 1883 he moved to Christchurch and in 1886 he went to Australia.
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Kennedy, George Alexander
Violinist, conductor, composer, civil servant
Born: 1861, Maryborough, Ireland
Died: 1936, Wellington
Active in New Zealand: 188?-1938
A civil servant by profession, working most of his life at Government Life of which he became Deputy Director, George Kennedy was very active in Wellington’s musical life. A violinist, he was part of the Wellington Orchestral Society not only as a performer but for a time Honorary Secretary and Committee member. He performed with other leading musicians in Wellington including Alfred Hill and Robert Parker, and also often with his sister, Grace Kennedy (1874-1957) who was one of Wellington’s leading violin teachers. After his retirement he was very active on behalf of St Mark’s parish. Two of his songs were performed at the Festival for the encouragement of New Zealand music in Christchurch, 1918.
Compositions
Crossing the bar. (Unpublished, 1906?)
O Heart of Mine. (Unpublished, 1900?)
The Angel’s Song. (Unpublished, 1934)
Resources
A collection of programmes of concerts that Kennedy took part in is held at the Alexander Turnbull Library Eph-B-THEATRE-1800s-01
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Kenny, David Alexander
Organist, accompanist, musical director, musical entertainer, music teacher
Born: 1881, Lyttleton
Died: 1918, Kindston-on-Thames, England
Dave Kenny studied the organ in Wellington under Tallis Trimnell and Laurence Watkins. He was organist at St Mary of the Angels and then St Gerards from 1909-1914, donating two of the stops for the St Gerard’s organ. He was particularly accomplished as an accompanist and in great demand by a range of soloists and groups. He was the official pianist for the Wellington Liedertafel choir and became the musical director for the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society and the Wellington Savage Club.
Kenny became more and more involved with appearing on stage. He enlisted in World War 1, rising to the rank of Captain, and becoming Director of Entertainments and a member of the Digger Pierrots. He died from complication of appendicitis.
Composition
New Zealand, the land ‘neath the Southern Cross. Wellington: 1915
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King, Edwin James
Music retailer, music teacher, piano tuner
Born: 1842, London
Died: 1903, Wellington
Active in New Zealand: 1862-1901
After moving to Melbourne from London with his parents, Edwin King then went to Dunedin in 1860. In 1862 he set up a bookselling business which he sold to Joseph Braithwaite before heading to Hokitika. After a time there he joined Madame Cora’s Concert Company as a pianist and toured New Zealand. In 1868 he moved to Whanganui where he taught music and established a music business and was bandmaster of the Wanganui Rifles and Wanganui Garrison Bands. He sold his Whanganui business to Herbert and Henry Collier in 1879 and returned to music teaching . In 1886 he he settled in Wellington where he established another music business, the Te Aro Music Warehouse. He was also bandmaster of the Wellington City Brass Band and conductor of the Working Men’s Club orchestra. His eldest son, Edwin Jnr was later involved in the business.
Photo source
Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Wellington area, 1896, p. 451.
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King, Edwin James Jnr (Ted)
Music retailer, pianist, teacher, piano tuner, composer
Born: 1866, New Zealand
Died: April 1937, New Zealand
Worked with his father, Edwin James King, in the music business E. J. King & Son, also known as the Te Aro Music Warehouse, from 1888. His brother was the violinist, Francis King and his cousin the conductor and musical director, Francis Crowther. He was the leader of a swing band and also involved in brass bands.
Compositions
Glasgow D’Alberts. (Wellington: Te Aro Music Warehouse, 1896)
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King, Francis Arthur
Violinist, composer
Born: 1873, New Zealand
Died: Unknown
Active in New Zealand: Unknown
Son of Edwin James King , brother of Edwin James King Jnr and cousin of conductor and musical director Francis Crowther. He was a pupil of Herbert Collier and Tallis Trimnell and also studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. At the time of his father’s death in 1903 he was a player in the Empire Orchestra, London where he settled.
His composition Huia Schottische was published by his family’s music business, the Te Aro Music Warehouse.
Compositions
Huia Schottische. (Wellington: Te Aro Music Warehouse, 1891)
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Kinnear, Jessie (nee Swift)
Music teacher, singer, composer
Born: 184-?, Australia
Died: 1907, Melbourne, Australia
Active in New Zealand: 1868-1896
Jessie Lee Swift married William Francis Kinnear and moved to Oamaru. Despite several short period away to Tokomairiro, Balclutha and Melbourne, she resided there until the late 1890s when she returned to Melbourne. She taught singing and piano, performed in a number of charitable fund-raising concerts and produced one published piano piece (under the name Jessie Swift Kinnear).
Compositions
The Maori Belle polka. (Dunedin: Caxton, 189-?)
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Klippel, Alec
Music retailer
Born: 28 August 1887, Austria
Died: Australia
Active in New Zealand: 1912-1914
Alec Klippel left Galicia, which was then part of Austria, when he was fourteen and went first to England and then to Sydney where his uncle had a music business selling non-copyright music. Klippel obtained a supply of sheet music from him and sold it to shops in country areas. Later he worked as a traveller for Hawkes’ brass instruments in New South Wales. In 1912, with a supply of sheet music from his uncle, he left for Wellington where he set up The Anglo-American Music Stores in Cuba Street selling sheet music with a girl employed to “play it over”. Branches were soon established in Christchurch and Auckland. In 1914 Klippel sold half the business to J. W. Bell and Matthew Guthrie and went to Tasmania where he opened a similar business, only returning to New Zealand to receive the final payment for the New Zealand shops.
Other resources
Ann Gluckman (ed). “From Galica to Australia and New Zealand: Alec Kippel’s Story.” Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol XIX, Part 1, pp. 75-85.
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Lambert, Samuel John
Music teacher, organist, astronomer, composer
Born: 1844, Birmingham, England
Died: 1899, London, England
Active in New Zealand: 1864-1898
“Professor” Lambert was a music teacher and organist in Auckland. He was organist at Pitt St Wesleyan Church and performed for many fund-raising concerts throughout the city, on the organ, piano and harmonium.
Lambert was also a keen and respected astronomer, being a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. His observations of the transit of Venus in 1874 and 1882 were referred to for many years, he was a member of the Auckland Institute and gave a number of public lectures on astronomical topics in Auckland. He returned to England in 1899, soon after the destruction of his house in Ponsonby in a fire. He died soon after in penury.
Compositions
Sleep baby sleep. (Auckland: Auckland Music Warehouse, 1878)
Dead march. (Auckland: Unpublished, 1892)
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Lee, William James
Violin maker, music teacher
Born: 1857?, Queensland, Australia
Died: 1936, Dunedin
Active in New Zealand: 1860s? – 1936
William Lee started out as a cabinet maker and undertaker in Dunedin, following in the tradition of his father. However, ill-health forced a change in profession and he developed the skills to establish himself as a violin maker using New Zealand woods. Some of Lee’s instruments included a carved Maori head on the tailpiece. One instrument was reputedly sent for inclusion in the permanent exhibition at the Imperial Institute, although no trace of it can now be found in the records.
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Leech, Frederick
Viola, violin and double bass teacher, conductor, composer
Born: c1830, Manchester, England
Died: 1912, Dunedin
Active in New Zealand: 1866-1912
Born in England Frederick Leech emigrated to Victoria in 1858 then moved to Hokitika in 1866. In 1873 he went to Dunedin with Cagli and Lyster’s Italian Operatic Company where he took up teaching. He later secured a position as Musical Director of the Princess Theatre. An orchestra formed by Leech was the precursor to the Dunedin Orchestral Society.
Compositions
In the south there springs a fountain. (Unknown)
All hail Zealandia. (Dunedin: Charles Begg & Co, 1874)
Don’t hit man when down. (Dunedin: Corrigan, 1896)
Grand old flag. (Dunedin: Charles Begg & Co, 1900)
All hail Zealandia and God save the King. (Dunedin: Charles Begg & Co, 1902; Dunedin: Dresden, 1902)
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Lelievre-Lee, Amelia Winifred
Music teacher, pianist, violinist and composer
Born: 1872, Hastings
Died: 1957, Hastings
Amelia ( Milly) Lelievre-Lee (nee Lee) was born and educated in Hastings. After a period living in Auckland she returned to Hastings after the death of her husband in 1911 and continued her career as a music teacher, violinist and pianist.
She was very involved with her local Catholic parish and wrote a number of sacred works as well as some piano pieces. She also regularly lead the Hastings Orchestral Society orchestra. Her song New Zealand cradle song, although unpublished, was highly commended in the 1936 Wellington branch of the British Music Society’s competition for New Zealand composers.
Published compositions:
Tantum ergo for soprano solo. (1909)
Sunrise. Waltz. (Auckland: A. Eady, 1910)
Nightfall. Waltz. (Auckland: A.Eady, 1912)
Resources:
Alexander Turnbull Library. Lelievre-Lee, Amelia Winifred, 1872-1957 : Music scores. MS-Group-0636
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Lemmer, Anton Bernhard Julius
Music educator, violinist, conductor, composer
Born: 1871, Hamburg, Germany
Died: 1957, Nelson
Active in New Zealand: 1899-1957
Julius Lemmer was living in Sydney when Alfred Hill recommended him as the new principal of the Nelson School of Music. He took up the role in September 1899 and continued until 1944. He set high standards for the students and developed the programme of the School. He was also the regular conductor for the Nelson Harmonic Society.
He faced anti-German sentiment during World War 1, despite having been naturalised as a British citizen. The trustees of the School supported him and he was able to continue in his position.
Compositions
Midnight reverie. Sydney: Paling, 1903.
Nelson College School Song
Resources
Tunnicliff, Shirley. ‘Lemmer, Anton Bernhardt Julius’, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3l8/lemmer-anton-bernhardt-julius (accessed 6 June 2023)
Tunnicliff, Shirley. Response to a visions: the first hundred years of the Nelson School of Music. Nelson: Nelson School of Music, 1994.
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Lewis Eady Ltd
Location: Auckland
Established: 1880
Founded by Lewis Eady in 1880 as a business selling, tuning and repairing pianos. Lewis’ son Alf joined the business in 1906 and in 1912 the business became Lewis R. Eady & Son. By 1924 all five of Lewis’ sons were working there. In 1917 the business was incorporated under the Companies Act (1908) as a private, limited liability company. In 1919 it bought Walker’s Phoneries which sold gramophones and phonographs as well as musical instruments. In 1920 it bought a musical instrument business in Hamilton and in 1921 it was registered as a public company. The business still operates today.
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Lewis, Phyllis M.
Composer
Active in New Zealand: Fl 1914
Phyllis M. Lewis’ only known composition, the Dorothy Perkins Waltz, was published in 1914.
Compositions
Dorothy Perkins Waltz. (Dunedin: Charles Begg & Co, 1914)
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Light, Harold Edwin
Organist, composer, music teacher
Born: 1881, Nelson
Died: 1908, Auckland
Showing early promise as an organist in Nelson, Harold Light went to London for further study and became the youngest to become a Fellow of the Guild of Organists. On return he was appointed to the position of organist at Pitt St Methodist Church, Auckland. He died after a short illness aged 27.
Compositions
Matai waltz. (Nelson: Bond, Finney & Co, 1899?), and (London: Leonard, 1901)
Romance in b flat for violin and piano. (Auckland: A. Eady, 1906)
Welcome, All Blacks. (Auckland: Brett, 1906)
Love’s awakening. (London: Novello, 1907)
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Lillicrap, Douglas Vernon
Singer, music retailer
Born: 1878, Invercargill
Died: 1944, New Zealand
Douglas Lillicrap was the younger brother of Frank Lillicrap, He trained as a cabinet maker and was a well known local tenor. Around 1905 he moved to Wellington where he was manager of the Wellington Piano Company. He subsequently worked for the DIC in their piano department and then managed the Anglo-American Music Stores, firstly in Wellington and then in Auckland. In 1922 he opened his own business in Queen Street, Auckland, Lillicrap’s Music Store Ltd, which closed in 1927.
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Lillicrap, Francis James (Frank)
Clarinetist, music retailer
Born: 1864, Wellington
Died: 1922, Invercargill
Frank Lillicrap was the older brother of Douglas Lillicrap. In 1893 he bought the Southland Music Depot, previously owned by A F Lithgow, and renamed it Lillicrap & Co. The business also sold books, stationery and fancy goods. In 1904 it became Lillicrap, McNaughton and Co but the partnership was dissolved in 1911 and the business reverted to its earlier name. In 1916 Frank Lillicrap resigned his agency association with the Bristol (formerly the Dresden), in which capacity he had promoted and sold their pianos and other musical goods for over 22 years. He stood for mayor in 1921.
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Lilly, Arthur
Music teacher, organist, composer
Born: 1882, Christchurch
Died: 1960, Nelson
Arthur Lilly followed his elder brother Alfred into a career as an organist. Leaving New Zealand at the age of 21 to study at the Royal College of Organists’ he returned to take up the first of several positions in as organist and choirmaster in Christchurch.
Lilly continued to explore his own compositional ideas, most significantly in his work Life (which was written to honour the military service of his brother Leslie), first performed in 1916 and then again in 1930. Lilly had also been at the fore in organising the two Christchurch Festivals of New Zealand Music held in 1916 and 1918.
Compositions
Six songs from the Psalms. (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1914)
Christmas joy. (Christchurch, 1915 – unpublished)
Life. (Christchurch, 1916 – unpublished)
Soldiers Requiem. (Unpublished)
God is our hope: choral anthem. (Unpublished)
Resources:
Szczepanski, Joanna Z. and Yapp, Francis. “Music in honour of a First World War soldier: Life by Arthur Lilly”. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 2017 Vol. 31: p. 127–138.
A photo of Lilly is available on the Canterbury Museum blog site.
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Lo Keong, Tilly
Piano teacher
Born: 1874, Dunedin
Died: 1840, Dunedin
Tilly Lo Keong was one of the six children of Matilda and Joseph Lo Keong, the first Chinese family raised in New Zealand. She was educated the Normal School, was a piano pupil of Annette Wilson, and achieved the Senior Certificate of the Trinity College exams. She started teaching the piano while still a pupil of Wilson’s and continued until the 1930s. Her family were very involved with the Anglican Church in Dunedin and she performed at a number of concerts of the St Paul’s Association.
Resource
Ng, James. “Chinese music making in early New Zealand”. Ritmico Journal, no.s 88 and 89, 2011, p1-4.
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Lockyer, Francis Henry (Frank)
Singer, music retailer, piano tuner
Born: 1867, 16 June, Adelaide, Australia
Died: 1937, 8 May, Napier
Active in New Zealand: 1896-1933
Frank Lockyer came to Dunedin in 1896 and joined Charles Begg & Co where he worked for five years. During this time he married Charles Begg’s niece, Helen Begg. In 1901 they moved to Napier where Frank established a piano and general music dealership with premises at the corner of Browning and Hastings Streets, operating as agent for Begg’s for some years. Also a singer, while in Dunedin he passed the Royal Academy of Music’s highest test in voice in 1900 and in Napier was Secretary and Treasurer of the Napier Orchestral Society. Lockyers’ premises were destroyed in the 1931 Napier earthquake, but subsequently rebuilt. The business continued to be an important part of Napier’s musical and commercial life until 1959 when it was sold to Begg’s and became their Napier branch.
Other resources:
Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington Provincial Districts, 1908, p.359 (photo source).
“Lockyer’s: world famous in Turangi.” Wares New Zealand, June 2010.
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Lund, Hermann Maier
Music teacher, music critic, pianist
Born: 1848, Ulm, Germany
Died: 1932, Christchurch
Active in New Zealand: 1877- 1932
Lund was a pianist, music teacher and newspaper music critic in Christchurch. He studied music under Claus Tausig in Berlin and continued to perform into his 80s. According to his obituary in the Press he also studied under Clara Schumann and was known to Brahms, von Bulow and Wagner. He held the position as music critic for the Press from 1903 for more than 25 years, using the non-de-plume Strad and also wrote articles on a variety of musical subjects.
Lund was also the first President of the Canterbury Society of Professional Musicians, and his pupils included Ernest Empson and Alfred Merton. In a tribute after Lund’s death, Empson wrote “Studying with Mr. Lund meant not only the disciplining of hand, eye and ear in the art of pianism, but a wonderful revelation of music’s power”.
Resources:
Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Canterbury Ptovincial District, 1903, p. 96 & 231. (photo source)
Hermann Meir Lund: family and friends
“Obituary. Mr H. M. Lund.” The Press, 7 March, 1932
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