Celebrated composer Tommy Tycho dies

AUSTRALIAN composer and musician Tommy Tycho has died at the age of 84.

Tycho was an institution in the early days of Australian television and recorded the version of the national anthem, Advance Australia Fair, used often at sporting events in Australia.

The ABC's website reports Tycho's personal manager, Ken Laing, says the musician was demure and known as a gentleman.

Laing also says Tycho was "a genius when it comes to being a musician and a composer and arranger."

Born in Budapest in 1928, Tycho emigrated to Australia with his family in 1951. Before that he lived in Iran and was the personal pianist to the Shah of Iran from 1948 to 1951.

In 1956 Tycho landed a job with Channel Seven and for 15 years was the music director for the Seven Network. During his career he worked with Peter Allen, Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham, Barry Crocker and international acts Sammy Davis Jr, Shirley Bassey, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.

In 1977, Tycho was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Tycho suffered a stroke in 2008, two weeks after he had played the piano for Denmark's Princess Mary at the opening of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

He had been living in a nursing home ever since, where the ABC says he died on Thursday from complications from pneumonia.

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