Australian composer
John Joseph Slater (1872- 16 May 1926) was an Australian composer of popular and light classical works. He operated a music publishing company in Leichardt and blended his product with sheet music from other sources in Haymarket, Sydney. He wrote under several alias names and is commonly known as Felix Le Roy.
Slater was active in variety theatre, particularly the company of Harry Rickards
His mature works include a series of favourably mentioned impressions for cornet, violin and piano trio - "Bells of Peace", "Spring Morning" and "Day Dreams". Slater's song "A Faded Leaf of Shamrock" sold six editions. Slater's more popular variety theatre pieces enjoyed larger reprints, especially "One of these Days" ran to a hundred and seventy five editions.
Works.
Seventy published titles are preserved in Australian libraries.
References.
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