John Lemmone and Nellie Melba at Bilgola, 23 September 1914.
Background information
Born
(1861-06-22)June 22, 1861 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died
August 16, 1949(1949-08-16) (aged 88) Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
Genres
Classical
Occupation(s)
Soloist, accompanist
Instrument(s)
Flute
Musical artist
John Lemmone (22 June 1861 – 16 August 1949; also seen as John Lemmoné) was an Australian flute player and composer who was largely self-taught and who at the age of 12, paid for his first flute with gold he had panned himself on the goldfields at Ballarat. He had an international career as a soloist, and accompanied well-known singers such as Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba and Amy Sherwin, the pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and the violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Later in his career he became Nellie Melba's manager.[1]
^Colligan, Mimi (1986). "Lemmone, John (1861–1949)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
JohnLemmone (22 June 1861 – 16 August 1949; also seen as JohnLemmoné) was an Australian flute player and composer who was largely self-taught and who...
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country town as another flute virtuoso, JohnLemmone. McMahon had some lessons from and was inspired by Lemmone. His schooling was at St Kevin's College...
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the possession of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. John Amadio and his contemporary, JohnLemmone capitalised on the taste of their time for florid operatic...
The concert was performed at Melbourne Town Hall under the baton of JohnLemmone, with Kirsti Harms on Soprano, David Hobson on Tenor and Rodney Macann...
London. Evans developed as an accompanist, playing with the flautist JohnLemmone and the opera singer Dame Nellie Melba on her tours of England and Australia...
Vida Goldstein, suffragette and social reformer (b. 1869) 16 August – JohnLemmone, flautist, composer and manager (b. 1861) 27 August – Theodora Cowan...
guitarists John Williams, Slava Grigoryan, Karin Schaupp; horn players Barry Tuckwell and Lin Jiang; oboists Diana Doherty; flautist JohnLemmone, Jane Rutter;...
Dwyer, educator, suffragist and labour activist (d. 1949) 22 June – JohnLemmone, flautist, composer and manager (d. 1949) 2 August – Edith Cowan, Western...
1901, aged 14 or 15, he made a concert tour of New South Wales with JohnLemmone's concert company, later with the Russian pianist Mark Hambourg through...
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