# Guli Hack
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{{Short description|South Australian pianist, singer and teacher}}
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'''Gulielma "Guli" Hack''' [ARCM](/source/ARCM) (17 October 1867 – 2 August 1951) was a [South Australia](/source/South_Australia)n pianist, singer and teacher at the [Elder Conservatorium](/source/Elder_Conservatorium), [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide).
== Biography ==
Hack was born at Childers Street, [North Adelaide](/source/North_Adelaide), eldest daughter of Charles Hack (1842–1915) and Anne Brooks Hack, née Meyrick (1844–1929). She was a granddaughter of [John Barton Hack](/source/John_Barton_Hack).
Theirs was a musical family: her father was a tenor in several important choirs.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87800936 |title=About Men and Women |newspaper=[The Chronicle (Adelaide)](/source/The_Chronicle_(Adelaide)) |volume=42 |issue=2,184 |location=South Australia |date=30 June 1900 |accessdate=11 February 2022 |page=29 |via=National Library of Australia}}]
===Student and teacher===
Hack was in 1887 the winning candidate for the second [Elder Overseas Scholarship](/source/Elder_Overseas_Scholarship) to the [Royal College of Music](/source/Royal_College_of_Music). She left by the SS ''Britannia'' on 14 January 1888.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46866588 |title=Abstract of News |newspaper=[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register) |volume=LIII |issue=12,852 |location=South Australia |date=23 January 1888 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}] Among her tutors was [Gustave García](/source/Gustave_Garc%C3%ADa).[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162432336 |title=Centenary of Manuel Garcia |newspaper=[The Observer (Adelaide)](/source/The_Observer_(Adelaide)) |volume=LXII |issue=3,320 |location=South Australia |date=20 May 1905 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}]
She completed the three-year course successfully and was recognised by admission as [ARCM](/source/ARCM), returning by the RMS ''Victoria'' in May 1891.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24793717 |title=Miss Gulielma Hack |newspaper=[The Advertiser (Adelaide)](/source/The_Advertiser_(Adelaide)) |volume=XXXIII |issue=10172 |location=South Australia |date=26 May 1891 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}] She held a concert at the Town Hall on 17 June 1891[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48102172 |title=Miss Hack's Concert |newspaper=[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register) |volume=LVI |issue=13,914 |location=South Australia |date=18 June 1891 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}] and in July joined the staff of [I. G. Reimann](/source/I._G._Reimann) and [Cecil Sharp](/source/Cecil_Sharp)'s [Adelaide College of Music](/source/Adelaide_College_of_Music)[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198413020 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[The Evening Journal (Adelaide)](/source/The_Evening_Journal_(Adelaide)) |volume=XXIII |issue=6490 |location=South Australia |date=11 July 1891 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}] as the only woman singing teacher, and when in 1898 the college was merged into the [Elder Conservatorium](/source/Elder_Conservatorium) she was appointed to a similar position.
She formed a women's choir which became part of the musical and social fabric of the Conservatorium.
At least two of her students, [Mary Trenna Corvan](/source/Mary_Trenna_Corvan) and Clara Kleinschmidt (famous as [Clara Serena](/source/Clara_Serena)), were recipients of the same Elder Scholarship. Another, Gwladys Edwards, was a fee-paying student of the RCM.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56874824 |title=Musical Notes |newspaper=[The Register (Adelaide)](/source/The_Register_(Adelaide)) |volume=LXXIII |issue=19,185 |location=South Australia |date=9 May 1908 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}] Hack retired from the Conservatorium in October 1909, on the eve of her marriage, and was given several valuable mementoes by staff and past students.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5762151 |title=Personal |newspaper=[The Advertiser (Adelaide)](/source/The_Advertiser_(Adelaide)) |volume=LII |issue=15,919 |location=South Australia |date=25 October 1909 |accessdate=12 February 2022 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}] Her successor at the Conservatorium was [Harry Winsloe Hall](/source/Harry_Winsloe_Hall) (died 29 April 1936)
===The Misses Hack===
Her sister Ethel May Hack (1869–1947) was a contralto and piano accompanist, and the pair frequently appeared as "The Misses Hack" in concerts at the [Adelaide Town Hall](/source/Adelaide_Town_Hall)[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48226364 |title=Adelaide Philarmonic Society |newspaper=[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register) |volume=LVII |issue=14,170 |location=South Australia |date=13 April 1892 |accessdate=11 February 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}] and elsewhere.
As "The Misses Hack" Guli and Ethel lived at 58 [South Terrace, Adelaide](/source/South_Terrace%2C_Adelaide), teaching languages and music at their own school on Miller Street, North Unley, initially to small children.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208927900 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[The Express and Telegraph](/source/The_Express_and_Telegraph) |volume=XXXVII |issue=11,023 |location=South Australia |date=14 July 1900 |accessdate=11 February 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}] 1900–1902, then 1903–1906 as "Wayville Private School" at Rose Terrace, [Wayville](/source/Wayville%2C_South_Australia).
Her obituary described her as a valued member of [Adelaide Lyceum Club](/source/Adelaide_Lyceum_Club) for many years, who died at the age of 84, a well-loved and highly esteemed figure in Adelaide's music and art circles.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45724729 |title=Death Of Mrs Guli Magarey |newspaper=[The Advertiser (Adelaide)](/source/The_Advertiser_(Adelaide)) |volume=94 |issue=28,964 |location=South Australia |date=10 August 1951 |accessdate=5 February 2022 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}]
==Personal==
On 5 March 1910,[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57371230 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=[The Register (Adelaide)](/source/The_Register_(Adelaide)) |volume=LXXV |issue=19,756 |location=South Australia |date=8 March 1910 |accessdate=11 February 2022 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}] Hack married [William Ashley Magarey](/source/William_Ashley_Magarey) (30 January 1868 – 18 October 1929), in 1901 one of her students at the Conservatorium.[{{cite web|url=https://archives.adelaide.edu.au/#details=ecatalogue.859 |title=Archives, Series 6, Elder Conservatorium Student Progress Reports, Folder 2 |publisher=[University of Adelaide](/source/University_of_Adelaide)}}] Magarey was well known as a [football](/source/Australian_rules_football) administrator, and remembered in the [Magarey Medal](/source/Magarey_Medal). They had no children.
Ethel Hack married Bruce Malcolm on 9 January 1902.[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200779621 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=[The Evening Journal (Adelaide)](/source/The_Evening_Journal_(Adelaide)) |volume=XXXIV |issue=9696 |location=South Australia |date=30 January 1902 |accessdate=11 February 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}]
== References ==
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Category:Australian women music educators
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Category:Australian accompanists
Category:Australian contraltos
Category:Associates of the Royal College of Music
Category:Musicians from Adelaide
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