J. P. Deane
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John Philip Deane (1 January 1796 – 18 December 1849),[1] 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"[2] and ". . . one of the most important early colonial musicians in [Van Diemen's Land] and [New South Wales]",[3] his family, whose only tutor was their father, were pioneering musicians in Sydney.