Record ID:
36056326 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • nb2010007961
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18621230
  • New Shildon, Durham, England
Death:
  • 19301113
Lived/located in:
  • Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne
Occupations:
  • Composer Arranger Music publisher Bandmaster
Used for:
  • Bulch, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1862-1930
  • Bulch, Thomas Edward, 1862-1930
See also:
Notes:
  • For other works by this composer see the pseudonyms: Arthur Godfrey, Eugene Lacosta, Arthur Laski, Godfrey Parker, Henri Laski, Pat Cooney, Carl Volti, Theo Bonheur, Charles Le Thiere.
  • His life in music publishing, from Thomas Edward Bulch, musician / Eric S. Tomkins, 2011: Partnership with Mr. J. Malthouse in a music business in Ballarat between 1888 and March 1889 ; Accepted a position in Melbourne with Allan & Co in between 1890 and 1891 ; In about 1893, he published "The intercolonial band news', 'Bulch's brass band and military journal' ; Later he published 'The intercolonial brass and military band journal' ; Much of his music was published by Suttons or Lyons. He also established a publishing company under his own name. The music published in America was through his agent for America, H.A.Richardson and Company of Los Angeles. His father acted as his agent in England till his death in 1906. Much of his music was published in Britain by W. Paxton, Oxford Street London and by james S. Kerr, 314 Paisley Road Glasgow ; In 1913, he moved to Melbourne and established a music store and publishing business in Sydney Road Brunswick ; During World War I, he continued in his music publishing business while living at 127 Stewart Street Brunswick ; In 1920 he moved to Sydney for a job as an arranger and transposer of music in Paling.
  • Suttons Tutor for the Cornet, 1904 title page (T. E. Bulch)
  • National Library of Australia in VIAF, 26 Mar. 2010 (hdg.: Bulch, T.E. (Thomas Edward))
  • Wikipedia, 26 Mar. 2010 (Thomas Edward Bulch (December 30, 1862 - November 13, 1930), born in New Shildon, Durham, England, was a noted Australian musician and composer)
  • Thomas Edward Bulch, musician: a family history / Eric S. Tomkins, 2011 page 1 (Thomas Edward Bulch was born in New Shildon, Durham England. ... At the age of 21 Thomas migrated to Australia) ; page 6 (enlisted in the Australian Military Forces on 2nd May 1917 and was made Sergeant, bandmaster of the 'Langwarren Army Camp Band'. Thomas resigned from the army on 16th January 1918) ; page 7, 12 (death ... on 13th November 1930) ; page 8 (He wrote under many pseudonyms and it is difficult now to identify all his work. Charles Tomkins when asked how many Thomas used replied it could have been fifty or more. Some of the better-known names he used are Godfrey Parker, Henri Laski, Pat Cooney, Carl Volti, Theo Bonheur and Eugene Lecosta ... Charles Le Thiere. ... It was found that a British composer Charles Rawlings is also listed as using that name Theo Bonheur) ; appendix (Birth Certificate for Bulch. b. 1862)
  • Once a jolly swagman: the ballad of Waltzing Matilda / Matthew Richardson. Melbourne University Press, 2006 page 120 (Bulch 1860 [sic]-1930 came to Australia in 1884 ... settling first in Ballarat ... Being so prolific ... used a string of pseudonyms: Eugene Lacosti, Henry Lasker, Arthur Godfrey and so on)
  • 'Wagga Town Band.', Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW), 19 January 1892, p. 2 (T.E. Bulch's Intercolonial Journal) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101858380
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)113970
  • 000001062421
  • abv03326004
Cataloguing source:
  • Uk eng rda Uk ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc