Albert Lynch

December 10, 1900 (age 75)

Collie, Western Australia

He was raised an Anglican and educated at state schools. He received his first musical training from Sister Monica at Street Joseph"s Convent in Boulder. In the early 1920s his talent as a violinist earned him a place in orchestras supporting silent movies and enabled him to perform solo recitals on the wireless. Joseph Nowotny became his mentor. The Rivervale Progress Association sponsored the first of a series of concerts to raise the £1000 needed to send Lynch to Belgium in 1923 to study under Emile Marchot at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles for three and a half years. Lynch began to study for the priesthood at Pontifical Urban College of Propaganda Fide, Rome in 1930. Lynch was ordained priest in Street John Lateran Basilica on 16 March 1935. He returned to Western Australia where he was appointed curate of Palmyra in October 1935. In 1938 he formed an all-male choir at Street Mary"s Cathedral, Perth, which he conducted for fifteen years. In conjunction with Christian Brothers" College, Street George"s Terrace, he established Western Australia"s first Catholic choir school. He served on the music examinations board of the University of Western Australia. He was the college chaplain of Aquinas College in Salter Point from 1938-1942. He was to become the founding parish priest of Applecross in 1952, which he dedicated to Saint Benedict. He stayed at Applecross parish until he retired in 1973. Lynch died on 23 August 1976 at Applecross and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.

Albert Lynch

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Lynch was born in Collie, Western Australia to Ernest Lynch and Elizabeth Lynch (née Stewart).

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He was raised an Anglican and educated at state schools. He received his first musical training from Sister Monica at Street Joseph"s Convent in Boulder. In the early 1920s his talent as a violinist earned him a place in orchestras supporting silent movies and enabled him to perform solo recitals on the wireless.

Joseph Nowotny became his mentor.

The Rivervale Progress Association sponsored the first of a series of concerts to raise the £1000 needed to send Lynch to Belgium in 1923 to study under Emile Marchot at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles for three and a half years. Lynch began to study for the priesthood at Pontifical Urban College of Propaganda Fide, Rome in 1930.

Lynch was ordained priest in Street John Lateran Basilica on 16 March 1935. He returned to Western Australia where he was appointed curate of Palmyra in October 1935.

In 1938 he formed an all-male choir at Street Mary"s Cathedral, Perth, which he conducted for fifteen years.

In conjunction with Christian Brothers" College, Street George"s Terrace, he established Western Australia"s first Catholic choir school. He served on the music examinations board of the University of Western Australia. He was the college chaplain of Aquinas College in Salter Point from 1938-1942.

He was to become the founding parish priest of Applecross in 1952, which he dedicated to Saint Benedict.

He stayed at Applecross parish until he retired in 1973. Lynch died on 23 August 1976 at Applecross and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.

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