RAAKE, Gotthard (Gotthard RAAKE also Gothard, Godard Francis Gotthard Richard RAAKE) Occasionally, however, some spellings are silently corrected (for instance, of unusual music titles and composers, to assist identification),Īnd some orthography, punctuation and paragraphing, and very occasionally also syntax,Įditorially altered or standardised in the interests of consistency, clarity, and readability. Wherever practical retaining unaltered the original orthography, and spellings and mis-spellings, of the printed or manuscript sources. The texts given in gold aim for the most part to be diplomatic transcriptions, Will often differ more or less substantially from those given (but often merely hazarded) in standard Australian and international bibliographic and biographical records. Years of birth or death, and sometimes also names and spellings of names, thus sourced and presented here, Where no certain evidence of a person's birth year has yet been identified, the assumption is that we do not and cannot yet know with sufficient certainty to propose one. Only such biographical information as can be confirmed from standard national databases or original documentation presented is entered at the head of each person entry in this page. With a secondary focus on members of their circles - families, pupils, colleagues, and other important contacts - first active after 1860.īeyond that, there has been no systematic attempt as yet to deal with musical personnel first active after 1860, and so far the coverage is selective.Ī major upgrade of the contents of this page was completed in May 2021,Īnd newly added documentation (including genealogical data) and Trove tagging now brings the page content up to the end of 1860 close to completion.

The primary focus of the biographical register is musical personnel first active before the end of 1860, 'A biographical register of Australian colonial musical personnel–R (Ra-Riz)',Īustralharmony (an online resource toward the early history of music in colonial Australia):

James Waller (1819-1871), musical amateur, and familyĪ biographical register of Australian colonial musical personnel–R (Ra-Riz).

Wallace in Dublin and Sydney, and Mary Pye's music book.

Harry Parsons and his Curtis descendents.

Maria and Bessie Gray and The stockman's last bed (1846).

Music at the Centennial Exhibition (1888).

Broadwood pianos in early colonial Australia.

Organisations, venues, events, &c., register A-Z.

Checklist is Australian sheet music prints 1835-c.1850.

Chronicle of music from earliest contacts to 1800.

Checklist of Indigenous song and dance documentation to end of 1840.

Checklist of Indigenous song transcriptions.

Riz by Charlie Flowers