Louis Lavater

Louis Isidore Lavater (2 March 1867 – 22 May 1953) was an Australian composer and author born in Victoria, of Swiss-Swedish extraction.

"[3] He prepared musical settings of popular folklore by collaborating with well known Australian lyricists of his time, including Banjo Paterson,[4] Henry Lawson and Mary Gilmore.

[2] While at the University Lavater joined the bohemian Buonarotti Club (1883-87), was active in its musical section and accompanied the artists on their painting camps.

[26] An oil portrait of Louis Lavater by Rollo Thomson hangs in the State Library of Victoria.

Lavater's setting of The Old Bark Hut by Banjo Paterson was revived for a production of bush ballad musical Under the Coolibah Tree produced by the Waterside Worker's Union in 1956.