University of Adelaide School of Music

The School of Music was established at the University of Adelaide in 1885, the first to be established at an Australian university.  Sir Thomas Elder (1818-1897) bequeathed £65,000 to the University of Adelaide in 1897, bringing the total of his gifts to that institution to nearly £100,000.  £20,000 from this bequest was to endow the School of Music, and the Elder Conservatorium was established in 1898.  Earlier, he had given a contribution of £500 per year for five years to support the foundation of the Chair of Music.  As a result, Joshua Ives was appointed the first Professor of Music.  In 1898, Heinicke, along with other staff members of the Adelaide College of Music, became the first teachers of the Elder Conservatorium.

- Robert Brown