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For 45 years, Divall pioneered the study of, and edited and published many volumes of early Australian music. He was the chairman of the Marshall-Hall Trust, and was completing an edition of the complete works of the English baroque composer
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He was a fellow of Queen's College, Melbourne, and was on the SCR of Newman College at the University of Melbourne. He was a Knight of Malta in solemn religious profession and was active in hospitaller and charitable works in that order.
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he edited over 150 works of early Maltese composers especially from the period of the knights, including the complete sacred music and operas by
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and a PhD in theology by the University of Divinity in church history and 18th century Maltese sacred music. He was an officer of the
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have been published by Lyrebird Press . Divall was associated with several residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, first
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in Melbourne, where he remained for 25 years. A further five years were spent as principal resident conductor of
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Divall conducted many concerts, ballets and 151 operas, particularly works of the late baroque,
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as a music producer in the early 1960s for nine years before working as a trainee conductor for
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is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.
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Professor Richard Divall AO OBE D Lett (Hon Mon) Doc Univ (ACU) PhD (UD) FRNS FRAS
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Commendatore al Merito Melitense, DLett (Hon Mon) in 1989, for historical research
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Cavaliere di Giustizia (Order of Malta), Cavaliere di San Giorgio (Spain)
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at Monash University and an honorary principal fellow in music at the
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and Peter Burch, he became the inaugural music director of the
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Officer of the Most Venerable Order of St John, OStJ (2012)
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Fellow, Queen's College, University of Melbourne in 1987
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (1981)
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Divall was awarded honorary degrees from Monash and
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AO
OBE

Conductor
musicologist
AO
OBE
musicologist
Sydney
Manly Boys High School
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Opera Queensland
Joan Hammond
Victoria State Opera
Opera Australia
Joseph Post
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Charles Mackerras
Reginald Goodall
Wolfgang Wagner
Mozart
Handel
Gounod
Berlioz
Verdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Les Troyens
Richard Strauss
Elektra
Don Carlos

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