November 14, 2026 — 7:30pm

A century after his death on the battlefields of France, the lost masterpieces of one of Australia’s most gifted composers will be brought back to life at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance in a major effort to reclaim a forgotten figure in the nation’s musical history.

Frederick Septimus Kelly, hailed as Australia’s answer to Chopin, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in November 1916, aged just 35, leaving behind a remarkable body of compositions and ambitious unfinished works that have remained largely unknown for generations.

Australian composer, concert pianist and Olympic gold medallist Septimus Kelly, who was killed on the Western Front in 1916, is being celebrated as part of a campaign to revive his lost musical legacy 110 years after his death.…