Margaret (Ada) Sutherland

(b Adelaide, 20 Nov 1897; d Melbourne, 12 Aug 1984). Australian composer. She studied with Bax in London, and in Vienna (1923-5), and from 1935 was active in Australia as a pianist, teacher and composer, contributing greatly to musical life and championing the work of other Australian composers. She was one of the first Australian composers to write in an idiom comparable with that of her generation in Europe. She was influenced by Bax but also Bartók, Hindemith and French neo-classicism but she integrated these into a personal idiom. Her works cover many genres and include the tone poem Haunted Hills (1950) and the opera The Young Kabbarli (1965).

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