He also published numerous compositions for the piano. Maritana was followed by Matilda of Hungary (1847), Lurline (1847/60), The Amber Witch (1861), Love's Triumph (1862) and The Desert Flower (1863) (based on the libretto of Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne). Wallace's sister, Elisabeth, appeared at Covent Garden in the title role in 1848. In November of that year, his opera Maritana was performed at Drury Lane with great success, and was later presented internationally, including Dublin (1846), Vienna, Austria (1848), and in Australia. He arrived in London in 1845 and made various appearances as a pianist. Scene from Maritana (1845): The wedding of Don Cæsar and Maritana Moving on to the United States, he stayed at New Orleans for some years, where he was feted as a virtuoso on violin and piano, before reaching New York, where he was equally celebrated, and published his first compositions (1843–44).
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In 1841, he conducted a season of Italian opera in Mexico City. Wallace claimed that from Australia he went to New Zealand on a whaling-voyage in the South seas and while there encountered the Maori tribe Te Aupouri, and having crossed the Pacific, he visited Chile, Argentina, Peru, Jamaica, and Cuba, giving concerts in the large cities of those countries. In 1838, he separated from his wife, and began a roving career that took him around the globe. Mary's (Roman Catholic) Cathedral in Sydney in 18, on behalf of the organ fund, which were directed by Wallace, and which utilized all the available musical talent of the Colony, including the recently formed Philharmonic Society. The most significant musical events of this period were two large oratorio concerts at St. Wallace was also active in the business of importing pianos from London, but his main activity involved many recitals in and around Sydney under the patronage of the Governor, General Sir Richard Bourke. His sister Elizabeth, at age 19, in 1839 married an Australian singer John Bushelle, with whom she gave many recitals before his early death in 1843 on a tour of van Diemen's Land. Wallace had already given many celebrity concerts in Sydney, and, being the first virtuoso to visit the Colony, became known as the "Australian Paganini". The composer's party first landed at Hobart, Tasmania in late October, where they stayed several months, and then moved on to Sydney in January 1836, where, following the arrival of the rest of the family in February, the Wallaces opened the first Australian music academy in April. His father, with his second wife Matilda and one child, travelled with the rest of the family, Elizabeth, a soprano, and Wellington, a flautist, as bounty emigrants from Cork that autumn.
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Wallace, together with his wife Isabella and young son, Willy, travelled as free emigrants from Liverpool in July. The couple soon moved to Dublin, where Wallace was employed as a violinist at the Theatre Royal.Ī bust of Wallace by Seamus Murphy can be seen outside Waterford's Theatre RoyalĮconomic conditions in Dublin having deteriorated after the Act of Union of 1800, the whole Wallace family decided to emigrate to Australia in 1835. He fell in love with a pupil, Isabella Kelly, whose father consented to their marriage in 1832 on condition that Wallace become a Roman Catholic. In 1830, at the age of 18, he became organist of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Thurles, County Tipperary, and taught music at the Ursuline Convent there. Wallace learned to play several instruments as a boy, including the violin, clarinet, organ, and piano. Wallace became accomplished in playing various band instruments before the family left the Army in 1826 (their regiment then being the 29th Foot), moving from Waterford to Dublin, and becoming active in music in the capital. Under the tuition of his father and uncle, he wrote pieces for the bands and orchestras of his native area. The band, having a reputation for high standards, apart from regimental duties would have featured at social events in big houses in the area. The family returned to Ballina some four years later, in 1816, and William spent his formative years there, taking an active part in his father's band and already composing pieces by the age of nine for the band recitals. William was born while the regiment was stationed for one year in Waterford, one of several successive postings in Ireland and the UK.
Both of his parents were Irish his father, Spencer Wallace of County Mayo, one of four children, who was born in Killala, County Mayo in 1789, became a regimental bandmaster with the North Mayo Militia based in Ballina. Wallace was born at Colbeck Street, Waterford, Ireland.
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