Harry Austin Tierney

Harry Austin Tierney (1890-1965)

According to the Internet source given below, Harry Austin Tierney was an American composer of popular music, much for the Broadway musical stage. He was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in a musical family. His mother was a pianist and who taught him, his father was a trumpeter in a symphony orchestra and one of his uncles taught him harmony and composition. Tierney later studied at the Virgil Conservatory of Music in New York City.
He toured the USA and other countries as a concert pianist in the period before the First world War travelling to London in 1915 where he worked for as a staff composer for a British publisher who published 3 of his songs (King of the Maniac Band, Pass Along and Just For Tonight). He returned to the USA in 1916 to write for Broadway musicals.
His shows included Follow Me (1917), Everything (1918), The Broadway Show (1918), Irene (1919 a top show with 620 performances his greatest hits being Alice Blue Gown and Castle of Dreams adapted from Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin's Minute Waltz), Rio Rita (1927), Dixiana (1929) and Half Shot at Sunrise (1930). ). Of ragtime interest are his The Bumble Bee (1909), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1911) and Variety Rag (1912). His career then declined and he died in New York City in aged 75.
List of Harry Austin Tierney's works.

Sheet Music:

[§] Alice Blue Gown (1919), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
[§] The Bumble Bee (1909), Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
[§] Carnation March (1911), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
[§] Castle of Dreams (1919), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/U+Tenor/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
[§] The Fanatic Rag (1911), Tenor/Tenor/Tenor/Tenor+Bass/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
[§] In My Irish Aeroplane (1917), Treble(Tenor)/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)/Vocal(Optional Tenor)
[§] Uncle Tom's Cabin (1911), Descant/Treble+Bass/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
[§] Variety Rag (1912), Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)

9. More sheet music at the Amazons
10. More sheet music at Ditty Box Enterprises
Further sheet music at DBE: ON HOLD
Websites:
TIERNEY, HARRY AUSTIN BIOGRAPHY by www.naxos.com.
Ragtime Music CDs:

"Perfessor" Bill Edwards on "Syncopated Safari"

Elite Syncopators on "Ragtime Special"

Evergreen Ragtime Trio on "It's a Rouser"

Jenks/Grinstead on "Ragtime Bigtime"

Various Artists on "Pianola Ragtime: Early Piano Jazz and Ragtime Played on Pianola Rolls: Vol. 2" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)

Various Artists on "Ragtime to Jazz: Vol. 1" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra on "On The Boardwalk" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)

Muriel Pollock on "Vol. 6 Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era"