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Richard Divall (Richard Sydney Divall) was born on 9 September, 1945 in Sydney, is an Australian conductor and musicologist. Discover Richard Divall's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Richard Sydney Divall
Occupation Conductor and musicologist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 9 September 1945
Birthday 9 September
Birthplace Sydney
Date of death 2017
Died Place N/A
Nationality Australia

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1715

He was editing the sacred music and operas of Girolamo Abos (1715–1760).

Four volumes in his editions of 24 works of Michelangelo Vella have been published by Lyrebird Press [Paris/Melbourne].

Divall was associated with several residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, first Queen's College (of which he was a fellow) and later Newman College (where he was a member of the SCR).

1773

As a musicologist he edited over 150 works of early Maltese composers especially from the period of the knights, including the complete sacred music and operas by Nicolas Isouard (1773–1818).

1945

Richard Sydney Divall (9 September 1945 – 15 January 2017) was an Australian conductor and musicologist.

1960

Born in Sydney, and after leaving Manly Boys High School, Divall joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a music producer in the early 1960s for nine years before working as a trainee conductor for Opera Queensland.

1972

In 1972, on the invitation of Dame Joan Hammond and Peter Burch, he became the inaugural music director of the Victoria State Opera in Melbourne, where he remained for 25 years.

A further five years were spent as principal resident conductor of Opera Australia.

His teachers included Joseph Post, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Reginald Goodall and Wolfgang Wagner.

Divall conducted many concerts, ballets and 151 operas, particularly works of the late baroque, Mozart, Handel, Gounod, Berlioz and Verdi.

These included the complete operas of Claudio Monteverdi, Berlioz's Les Troyens and Richard Strauss' Elektra.

1984

He conducted Verdi's Don Carlos, the first opera to be staged in the State Theatre of the Victorian Arts Centre in 1984.

His repertoire included Lohengrin and Tannhäuser by Wagner.

The most recent operas he directed were Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Hasse's Antonio e Cleopatra, Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, and Puccini's final opera Turandot at Monash University.

Divall was a vice-chancellor's professorial fellow at Monash University and an honorary principal fellow in music at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Malta.

2009

He was an officer of the Order of Australia (2009), an officer of the Order of the British Empire (1981) and was awarded a Spanish knighthood in 2008.

He was a fellow of Queen's College, Melbourne, and was on the SCR of Newman College at the University of Melbourne.

He was a Knight of Malta in solemn religious profession and was active in hospitaller and charitable works in that order.

The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

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2014

In 2014, he was appointed an honorary research fellow at the University of Divinity, Melbourne, and in September 2014 a visiting professor of music at King's College London.

For 45 years, Divall pioneered the study of, and edited and published many volumes of early Australian music.

He was the chairman of the Marshall-Hall Trust, and was completing an edition of the complete works of the English baroque composer Michael Christian Festing, and the complete sacred music of Girolamo Abos.

Divall worked in several fields at Monash, was a member of the committee for the construction of the new Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, as well as assisting the staff and students at that school.

2015

In 2015 he was the co-producer of the ANZAC Commemorative CD Gallipoli – A Tribute, which was sponsored by the Ian Potter Foundation and Monash University.

2018

Divall was awarded honorary degrees from Monash and Australian Catholic University and a PhD in theology by the University of Divinity [Catholic Theological College] in church history and 18th century Maltese sacred music.