Moritz Heuzenroeder (15 July 1849 – 10 November 1897) was a pianist, composer and teacher of music born in Germany who had a substantial career in South Australia.
[1] He left Germany for South Australia some time before 1871 and settled in Gawler,[2] where for a year or two he conducted a jeweller's shop, but he had a greater love for music, and returned to Germany for three or four years to further study piano under Dr. Sebert, gaining Royal Academy of Stuttgart qualifications,[3] and studying voice production.
Theo was born in Schwanewede, and emigrated to South Australia in 1859, married Mathilde Louise Martha Fiedler (c. 1842 – 20 March 1893) in 1867 and had eight children, was a pharmacist in Adelaide, then Hahndorf, then Tanunda from 1866.
In 1886, he founded the Adelaide Harmonie Society, which in 1891 first performed The Windmill, his operetta in two acts, the text of which was translated from the French of Mélesville.
[13] He composed the comic opera Immomeena (libretto by Harry Congreve Evans of the Quiz), first performed in 1893, of which the song The Green Little Isle of the Sea achieved some popularity.