Austin, Walter 13.mar.1841-3.dec.1912 England Yorkshire, Leeds Headingley - London Ealing
amateur musician, civil servant, professor of music, 1850 student at John A Fisher's private boarding school in Everton Lancashire, 1860 as articled clerk residing with his widowed mother, a cook and housemaid at 38 Park Square in Leeds, 1880-1901 as professor of music residing with his widowed mother, a cook and a housemaid at 21 Brompton Square in London Kensington, 1910 until death as singing master and composer residing at hotel St James Court on Buckingham Gate, he died at the Hanger Hill Golf Course in London Ealing ; son of woolmerchant Joseph Austin (Leeds Holbeck 1.sep.1803-10.dec.1857 Leeds Headingley) and Mary Ellen Locke (Yorkshire, Sheffield Attercliffe 1803-1882 Kensington) ; he never married

Title Parts


[] Strive, wait and pray. Song
words by Miss Procter (Adelaide Anne Procter)
pub R. Mills & Sons, London 1874

[] The fire king. Dramatic cantata. Leeds Festival 1877
words Maud Hargreaves
pub Cunningham Boosey & Co., London 1875

[] The fire king's song "Deep in the earth"
words by M. Hargreaves
pub London 1875

[] Chi e? "When for a buonamano". Voice and piano
dedication: Composed for, and sung by Mr. Shakespeare
words from The interludes by Alfred Austin (his brother)
pub Metzler & Co., London 1876

[] The summer house. Song
words C. C. Welman
pub London 1876

[] To arms, to arms. War song from the dramatic cantata The fire king
sung by Mr. Edward Lloyd
words Maud Hargreaves
pub Metzler & Co., London 1877

[] The past is but a troubled dream. Song from the dramatic cantata The fire king
words Maud Hargreaves
pub Metzler & Co., London 1877

[] The roll call "When bugles warn'd"
the poetry by C. C. Welman
pub Cunningham Boosey & Co., London 1877

[] Coming home "The sun is high". Song
words and music Walter Austin
pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1879

[] The closed door "As one who stands alone"
words F. E. Weatherly
pub London 1879

[] The stepmother. Operetta. St George's Hall, London may1880
libretto Arthur Sketchley

[] The camp. Overture. Covent Garden Promenade Concerts, London aug1880
[] Phoebe Garland. Song
sung by Mr. Frank Boyle
words Cunningham V. Bridgman
pub Boosey & Co., London 1881

[] The sun has set far in the west. Barcarole
sung by Miss Purdy & Miss Fanny Holland
words Sir F. C. Burnand
pub R. Mills & Sons, London 1881

[] O sacrum convivium. Offertorium for tenor and chorus, composed expressly for the Choir of the London Oratory
pub Novello, Ewer & Co., London 1883

[] The maiden and the weathercock. Song
sung by Miss de Fonblanque
words Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
pub Boosey & Co., London 1883

[] The angel guardian. Song
words and music by Walter Austin
pub J. B. Cramer & Co., London 1884

[] Five months ago
words E. B. Browning
pub Novello, Ewer & Co., London 1886

[] Love the voyager. Song
sung by Mr. Edward Lloyd
words Thomas Hood
pub Boosey & Co., London 1886

[] Blind Bartimeus. Song
words H. W. Longfellow
pub Boosey & Co., London 1887

[] At the Golden Gates. Song
pub R. Mills & Sons, London 1888

[] By the camp fires. Song
words by P. Hutton
pub A. Hays, London 1889

[] A soldier's death. Song
words by H. Lloyd
pub Francis, Day & Hunter, London 1896

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