John Albert Delany

John Albert Delany (6 July 1852 – 11 May 1907) was an Australian composer and champion of choral music.[1][2] He wrote spiritual works in unaccompanied plainsong.[3] He is best known for an operatic Mass in A flat [4] recorded in the 1950s and revived in 1993.[5] Delany served in 1897 as first director of the Sydney Institute of Music as Chairman of the board of examiners.[6]

John Albert Delany

References
  1. Design, UBC Web. "John Albert Delany – Monument Australia". monumentaustralia.org.au.
  2. "Delany, J. A. (John Albert) (1852–1907) – People and organisations". Trove.
  3. "J. A. Delany, Te Deum (1900)". 13 November 2013.
  4. "ABC Classic FM – Weekend Breakfast – A Fox's Breakfast". ABC Classic FM.
  5. Delany, J. A.; Russell, David (15 September 1993). "Mass in A flat [sound recording] : Ave Maria". Sydney, N.S.W. : Walsingham Classics – via Trove.
  6. McNeill, Rhoderick (23 March 2016). The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960. Routledge. ISBN 9781317040873 – via Google Books.
  • Photograph and obituary notice [1]
  1. "THE LATE MR. J. A. DELANY". The Daily Telegraph (8720). New South Wales, Australia. 14 May 1907. p. 9. Retrieved 9 January 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
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