13 Facts About Richard Divall

Richard Divall's teachers included Joseph Post, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Reginald Goodall and Wolfgang Wagner.

Richard Divall conducted many concerts, ballets and 151 operas, particularly works of the late baroque, Mozart, Handel, Gounod, Berlioz and Verdi.

Richard Divall conducted Verdi's Don Carlos, the first opera to be staged in the State Theatre of the Victorian Arts Centre in 1984.

Richard Divall was a vice-chancellor's professorial fellow at Monash University and an honorary principal fellow in music at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Malta.

Richard Divall was editing the sacred music and operas of Girolamo Abos.

Richard Divall was associated with several residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, first Queen's College and later Newman College.

For 45 years, Richard Divall pioneered the study of, and edited and published many volumes of early Australian music.

Richard Divall was the chairman of the Marshall-Hall Trust, and was completing an edition of the complete works of the English baroque composer Michael Christian Festing, and the complete sacred music of Girolamo Abos.

Richard Divall worked in several fields at Monash, was a member of the committee for the construction of the new Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, as well as assisting the staff and students at that school.

Richard Divall was awarded honorary degrees from Monash and Australian Catholic University and a PhD in theology by the University of Divinity [Catholic Theological College] in church history and 18th century Maltese sacred music.

Richard Divall was an officer of the Order of Australia, an officer of the Order of the British Empire and was awarded a Spanish knighthood in 2008.

Richard Divall was a fellow of Queen's College, Melbourne, and was on the SCR of Newman College at the University of Melbourne.

Richard Divall was a Knight of Malta in solemn religious profession and was active in hospitaller and charitable works in that order.