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Haurongo: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon

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Lilburn Residence Trust

The website of the trust which supports a composer’s residency in Douglas Lilburn’s home in Thorndon, Wellington.

Douglas: the landscape of a New Zealand composer

Listen to this 10-part Radio New Zealand series about the life of Douglas Liliburn. 

Rārangi pukapuka

Harris, V., and P. Norman, eds. Douglas Lilburn: a festschrift for Douglas Lilburn on his retirement from the Victoria University of Wellington, 31 January 1980. 2nd ed. Wellington,1980

Norman, P. Douglas Lilburn: his life and music. Christchurch, 2006

Simpson, P. Bloomsbury South: the arts in Christchurch, 1933–1953. Auckland, 2016

Thomson, J.M. The Oxford history of New Zealand music. Auckland, 1991

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Philip Norman. 'Lilburn, Douglas Gordon', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/133885/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).