{{Short description|South Australian pianist, singer and teacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

'''Gulielma "Guli" Hack''' ARCM (17 October 1867 – 2 August 1951) was a South Australian pianist, singer and teacher at the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide.

== Biography == Hack was born at Childers Street, 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.

Theirs was a musical family: her father was a tenor in several important choirs.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87800936 |title=About Men and Women |newspaper=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}}</ref>

===Student and teacher=== Hack was in 1887 the winning candidate for the second Elder Overseas Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. She left by the SS ''Britannia'' on 14 January 1888.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46866588 |title=Abstract of News |newspaper=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}}</ref> Among her tutors was Gustave García.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162432336 |title=Centenary of Manuel Garcia |newspaper=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}}</ref> She completed the three-year course successfully and was recognised by admission as ARCM, returning by the RMS ''Victoria'' in May 1891.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24793717 |title=Miss Gulielma Hack |newspaper=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}}</ref> She held a concert at the Town Hall on 17 June 1891<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48102172 |title=Miss Hack's Concert |newspaper=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}}</ref> and in July joined the staff of I. G. Reimann and Cecil Sharp's Adelaide College of Music<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198413020 |title=Advertising |newspaper=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}}</ref> as the only woman singing teacher, and when in 1898 the college was merged into the 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 and Clara Kleinschmidt (famous as Clara Serena), were recipients of the same Elder Scholarship. Another, Gwladys Edwards, was a fee-paying student of the RCM.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56874824 |title=Musical Notes |newspaper=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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5762151 |title=Personal |newspaper=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}}</ref> Her successor at the Conservatorium was 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<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48226364 |title=Adelaide Philarmonic Society |newspaper=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}}</ref> and elsewhere. As "The Misses Hack" Guli and Ethel lived at 58 South Terrace, Adelaide, teaching languages and music at their own school on Miller Street, North Unley, initially to small children.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208927900 |title=Advertising |newspaper=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}}</ref> 1900–1902, then 1903–1906 as "Wayville Private School" at Rose Terrace, Wayville.

Her obituary described her as a valued member of 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.<ref name=death>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45724729 |title=Death Of Mrs Guli Magarey |newspaper=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}}</ref>

==Personal== On 5 March 1910,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57371230 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=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}}</ref> Hack married William Ashley Magarey (30 January 1868 – 18 October 1929), in 1901 one of her students at the Conservatorium.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Magarey was well known as a football administrator, and remembered in the Magarey Medal. They had no children.

Ethel Hack married Bruce Malcolm on 9 January 1902.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200779621 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=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}}</ref>

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