A. P. Deane

About

John Philip Deane, generally referred to as J. P. Deane, was an English musician in Australia, the first organist of St David's Church, Hobart. Called "the father of music in Australia" and ".. . one of the most important early colonial musicians in [Van Diemen's Land] and [New South Wales]", his family, whose only tutor was their father, were pioneering musicians in Sydney.