Previous posts for January 4ths are here: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (2020), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Josef Suk (2021), Johann Friedrich Agricola (2022), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (2023), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (2024), and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (2025)
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Stephen Hale Alonzo Marsh (4 January 1808 - 21 January 1888) was born in the United Kingdom, but thirty productive years of his career were spent in Australia.
Early Down Under
Isaac Nathan's Don John of Austria (1847), was described as the 'first opera wholly produced in Australia'. Marsh followed with A Gentleman in Black, also claiming it as 'Australia's first opera'. – adapted from Australian Dictionary of Biography (adb.anu.edu.au)
Stephen Hale Alonzo Marsh, whose name
Rolls with noble grandeur off the tongue,
Earned himself some temporary fame
When musical Australia was young.
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Nikolai Roslavets (4 January 1881 [O.S. 23 December 1880] – 23 August 1944) was a composer active in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
Nyet!
Roslavets was a convinced modernist and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards. -- Wikipedia
Roslavets, whose music was suppressed,
Explored a style which didn't pass the test,
(As those who know his music might have guessed),
As propaganda for the proletariat.
He found his style and wouldn't tweak or vary it,
Or write a tune so villagers could carry it.
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