Louis Lavater

Louis Isidore Lavater (2 March 1867 – 22 May 1953) was an Australian composer and author born in Victoria, of Swiss-Swedish extraction.

He published more than a hundred musical works, beginning in 1880 with the waltz Queen Mab which The Age reviewed in 1885 as that of "a musical talent of a respectable order," though noting that it was the earlier "work of a beginner."

He prepared musical settings of popular folklore by collaborating with well known Australian lyricists of his time, including Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and Mary Gilmore. He was a leading proponent of the Australian bush ballad as a vehicle for music education.

In 1938, Alfred Hill composed a musical setting of Lavater's verse Mopoke.

Lavater's words were also set by Australian composers Doctor Ruby Davy and Fanny Turbayne.

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