# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/isaac-nathan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:21:36.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/isaac-nathan"
name: "Isaac Nathan"
slug: "isaac-nathan"
description: "Isaac Nathan was an Anglo-Jewish emigre Australian musician, composer, musicologist, and music educator, who has been called the \"father of Australian music\", having assisted the careers of numerous colonial musicians during his twenty-year residence in Australia. He is best known for the success of his Hebrew Melodies (1815–1840) in London. However, he made significant contributions as a singing teacher and music historian and as a composer of opera in the Royal Theatres (1823–1833). After emigrating to Australia in 1840, Nathan wrote Australia's first operas and Australia's first contemporary song cycle which entangled fragments of Aboriginal songlines with European musical traditions. Nathan tailored compositions to the unique individual singing needs of his students and community choirs while using the Neapolitan bel canto pedagogical tradition that he inherited in London. Nathan's students include Dame Marie Carandini."
tagline: "Anglo-Australian composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Issac_nathan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1790"
deathDate: "1864-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.39
  momentum:             11.44736842105263
  historical:           8.547373333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c720790a-f04b-472b-b061-58ef20ae0831"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%82_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "إسحاق ناثان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%82_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اسحاق ناثان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan"
    title: "Isaac Nathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan"
    title: "Isaac Nathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan"
    title: "Isaac Nathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan"
    title: "Isaac Nathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan"
    title: "Isaac Nathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%96%D7%A7_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%9F"
    title: "אייזק נייתן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan"
    title: "Isaac Nathan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6076851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump