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| | Faculty of Music - History of the Faculty |
 | | There had been important earlier gifts: the Ormond Chair of Music was founded by the endowment of Francis Ormond, the wealthy pastoralist and parliamentarian who also endowed the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Ormond College, while Dame Nellie Melba had donated the proceeds of a fund-raising concert to build Melba Hall. |
 | | The portraits of former Ormond Professors that hang in Melba Hall are also gifts; however the portrait of Marshall-Hall, an extremely valuable work by Tom Roberts, hangs in the Grainger Museum. |
 | | To extend the Universitys influence on musical standards, the second Ormond Professor, Franklin Peterson, established a public examination system at the Conservatorium which led to the creation of the Australian Music Examinations Board in 1918, and today AMEB (Vic) Ltd is a University of Melbourne venture which examines nearly 40,000 young music students each year. |
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