| 词条 | George Tolhurst |
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George Tolhurst (5 June 1827[1]{{spaced ndash}}18 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.[2] 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 of the first oratorio composed in the colony of Victoria. Though well received by early audiences, Ruth was generally derided for bathos and technical ineptitude in the musical press, and by the early 20th century was generally regarded as the worst oratorio ever composed.[3] It was revived in a re-orchestrated and abridged version at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1973, conducted by Antony Hopkins and revived in another format in 2007. {{Listen|type=music|pos=right|filename=Heart That's True 1857 George TOLHURST.ogg|title=Heart That's True|description=first published and printed 1857 in Australia, features lyrics by English poet Eliza Cook}}works
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=George Tolhurst 1827-1877|url=http://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/george-tolhurst_161778056?geo_a=r&o_iid=41020&o_lid=41020&o_sch=Web+Property|website=ancestry.co.uk|accessdate=18 April 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5742935|title=25 Mar 1865 - MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.|work=nla.gov.au|accessdate=4 September 2015}} 3. ^The Musical Times vol. 61, no. 923 (Jan. 1 1920), p. 21-25 4. ^http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/215729989 5. ^http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/21825052 6. ^http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/21825167 7. ^http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/43462785 8. ^http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/328610 BibliographyRoyston Gustavson, "Tolhurst, George"; "Ruth", in Warren Bebbington, ed., The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1997) {{ISBN|0-19-553432-8}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Tolhurst, George}}{{UK-composer-stub}} 8 : English composers|1827 births|1877 deaths|People from Maidstone|English emigrants to Australia|Musicians from Kent|19th-century British composers|19th-century English musicians |
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