Born: March 11, 1812, Col­beck Street, Wa­ter­ford, Ire­land.

Died: Oc­to­ber 12, 1865, Châ­teau de Ha­get, Vieu­zos, Hautes-Pyr­é­nées.

Buried: Ken­sal Green Cem­e­tery, Lon­don, Eng­land. Ad­e­laide Proc­ter & Hen­ry Gaunt­lett lie nea­rby.

Wallace stu­died piano and or­gan while young, and had his first pub­lic vi­o­lin per­form­ance in Dub­lin 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.

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

Sources

Music

  1. Serenity
  2. Waterford