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Creator : Packer, Wallace.
Place Of Creation : Adelaide
Publisher : Cawthorne & Co.
Date of creation : [1901 or 1902]
Format : Sheet music
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Wallace Packer came to South Australia in 1888 to take up an appointment as organist of St. Paul's Church, Port Adelaide. Later he became director or the choir and organist of Christ Church in North Adelaide. He was also a teacher of the organ, piano and voice and gave concerts at the Adelaide Town Hall and churches throughout Adelaide's suburbs. He composed sacred music including anthems, services and hymns.

This piece is dedicated to His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Hopetoun, the first Governor-General of Australia. Hopetoun is incorrectly spelled as Hoptoun on the cover.

Subjects
Coverage year : 1901
Period : 1884-1913
Further reading :

The cyclopedia of South Australia in two volumes : an historical and commercial review, descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress, Hampstead Gardens, S.A. : Austaprint, 1978

The Australian musical news and musical digest, Melbourne : Australian Musical News Publishing Co., 1940-1959 (See especially March 1 1944, page 17)

La Nauze, J. A. The Hopetoun blunder : the appointment of the first prime minister of the Commonwealth of Australia December 1900, Carlton : Melbourne University Press for Australian Humanities Research Council, 1957

Holmes, Robyn. The collector's book of sheet music covers, Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2001

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