Harry P. Guy

Harry P. Guy (1870 in Zanesville, Ohio 1950) was a ragtime composer who lived in Detroit after 1895.[1] After writing his first compositions in Ohio,[2] he became one of the greatest contributors to ragtime music in Detroit,[3] and was called one of the city's "unique and unusually gifted musicians." He later fell into obscurity and died in poverty.

List of compositions

1887

1888

1889

1898

1899

1901

1902

1904

1906

1907

1914

1915

1917

1918

1921

1928

References

  1. Jon Milan. Detroit. pp. 19–21. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
  2. David Meyers, Candice Watkins, Arnett Howard, and James Loeffler. Ohio Jazz. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
  3. Lars Olof Björn. Before Motown. p. 14. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
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