HISTORY
The House
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House at 45 Ormond Street, Paddington was the residence of leading composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks and was her gift to the future of Australian music upon her death in 1990.
Since 1993, composers, performers and artists have sought a 'haven' within its walls.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks knew from experience the difficulty of being creative while providing for the necessities of living and her research into American composers found that "the best works of a majority of composers were those written on a Fellowship or underwritten leisure."
Peggy Glanville-Hicks provided for her home to be used as a Composers' House, with the hope "that the residency in the Trust house will create a haven and peace of mind which will enable the composer in residence to further his or her creative work."
The result was the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' Trust. Restored with the aid of the Arts NSW, the Australia Council for the Arts and sponsors, the House was opened on the 11 October, 1993 and is maintained thanks to the support of the Australia Council of the Arts and APRA-AMCOS, supplemented by royalties from Peggy Glanville-Hicks' works.
