TYERS, WILLIAM H.

TYERS, WILLIAM H. (BILL). Songwriter (27 March 1876 in Richmond, Virginia; 18 April 1924 in New York, New York). His family moved to New York when he was twelve years old, and there he first studied music privately. At the age of twenty he toured with a concert company in Europe as a librarian. While there he studied instrumentation at Hamburg, Germany. His first professional experience was in a dancing school, the Metropolitan, where he led his own three-piece group...