Catherine Hayes, making appearances in Great Britain, the United States (1851–52) and Australia (1855). Lavenu stayed in Sydney becoming the musical director of the Sydney Theatre and the teacher and conductor of the singer Marie Carandini. In July 1859 Lavenu (on cello) took part in a grand festival to inaugurate the new Great Hall of the University of Sydney with Carandini, Sara Flower, Emma Howson, Frank Howson and Walter Sherwin but died at the height of the festivities. in Macquarie Street in 1859, being buried in Camperdown cemetery alongside his tutor Bochsa, and his fellow English composer Isaac Nathan. Lavenu had eight children with Julia, daughter of Colonel John Blossett, the head of the British expedition which aided Simón Bolívar in the wars of independence. His daughters Ada, Eliza, Alice and Bessie were actresses in London during the 1860s, Eliza becoming more successful, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Lyceum. She was the mother of the actor Tyrone Power, Sr., and grandmother of the Hollywood star Tyrone Power. His daughter Alice changed her name to Suzanne Madeleine-Julie-Alice Lavenu and married a nobleman, Pedro Alonso Jimenez, the son of Alonso Jimenez, the Marques de la Granja de San Saturnino in 1875. References External links Franz Liszt concert programme for September 16, 1840 at The Centre for Performance History 1818 births 1859 deaths 19th-century Australian people Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music English classical cellists English composers English conductors (music) British male conductors (music) 19th-century British composers 19th-century conductors (music) 19th-century English musicians