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Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:12:00 +1100
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Jeff Dunn replied to Steve Schwartz:

>>I know of at least two composing William Wallaces.  This one studied
>>with Utah composer Leroy Robertson and with Edmund Rubbra in England.
>
>There's the third, William Vincent Wallace, English opera composer who
>died in 1865.

Not exactly.  He was Irish by birth, emigrated to Australia and played
a leading role in the early musical life of Sydney.  He also lived and
worked in, among others, the US and a number of European countries.
Vincent was his own addition to his name and was the one he preferred.

Richard Pennycuick

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