George Tolhurst

Life

Born: 5 June 1827

Died: 18 January 1877

Biography George Tolhurst was an English composer and organist, resident from 1852 to 1866 in Australia.

View the Wikipedia article on George Tolhurst.

List of choral works

Oratorio

• Ruth
  • No. 26 - And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's
  • No. 30 - And she went and came
  • No. 44 - Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky

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Publications

• Sarah Kirby, “'The Worst Oratorio Ever!': Colonialist Condescension in the Critical Reception of George Tolhurst's Ruth (1864)” Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 2017, 1–29
• Royston Gustavson, "Tolhurst, George"; "Ruth", in Warren Bebbington, ed., The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1997) ISBN 0-19-553432-8

External links

• Works by George Tolhurst in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)