Theodore Stephen Tearne
Theodore Stephen Tearne Mus Bac, L. Mus, F.S.Sc. (born 1860) was an organist and composer based in England and Australia.
Life
He was born in Dublin around 1860. He graduated Mus Bac from Oxford University. He was a pupil of Samuel Sebastian Wesley at Gloucester Cathedral, and then Sir George Elvey at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
He was on the board of examiners for the London College of Music, and for the Society of Science, London, and is one of the representatives of the Royal Academy of Music and of Trinity College London.
He married Mary Maud Lee in St. James' Church, Westley on 22 January 1891[1] They had the following children
- Donna Mary Tearne b. 1892
- Theodora Maud Tearne b. 1897
- Joyce Debenham Tearne 1899–1991
Appointments
- Organist of St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston Birmingham 1889[2] – 1903
- Organist of St James' Church, Handsworth 1904–08
- Superintendent of Music in the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction. 1908 – ca. 1920
Compositions
His compositions included
- "The Bell Amen Cadence", to be sung at the close of service 1886
- "The Edgbaston Angelus", 1897
- "Gavotte and Musette", 1886
- "Saviour, Before Thy Throne", 1906
References
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