Introduction

Biography

Wallace stu­died pi­a­no and or­gan while young, and had his first pub­lic vi­o­lin per­form­ance in Dublin, Ire­land, in 1834. He played the vi­o­lin in the the­a­ter, and served as or­gan­ist in a num­ber of churches.

In 1835 he moved to Tas­man­ia, and found­ed a mu­sic acad­e­my in Syd­ney, Aus­tral­ia. Some time lat­er, while in New York, he left his wife Is­a­bel­la Kel­ly to mar­ry pi­an­ist Hel­en Stoe­pel.

Works

Wallace com­posed songs, du­ets, pi­a­no so­los, and op­er­as, in­clud­ing Mar­i­ta­na and Lur­line.