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Joseph Parry
1841 - 1903 Composer of "PENNSYLVANIA" in Hymnau a thonau at wasanaeth amrywiol gyfarfodydd y cysegr Joseph Parry (b. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1841; d. Penarth, Glamorganshire, 1903) was born into a poor but musical family. Although he showed musical gifts at an early age, he was sent to work in the puddling furnaces of a steel mill at the age of nine. His family immigrated to a Welsh settlement in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1854, where Parry later started a music school. He traveled in the United States and in Wales, performing, studying, and composing music, and he won several Eisteddfodau (singing competition) prizes. Parry studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at Cambridge, where part of his tuition was paid by interested community people who were eager to encourage his talent. From 1873 to 1879 he was professor of music at the Welsh University College in Aberystwyth. After establishing private schools of music in Aberystwyth and in Swan sea, he was lecturer and professor of music at the University College of South Wales in Cardiff (1888-1903). Parry composed oratorios, cantatas, an opera, orchestral and chamber music, as well as some four hundred hymn tunes.
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Joseph Parry
Caradog Roberts
1878 - 1935 Person Name: Caradog Roberts, 1878-1935 Composer of "IN MEMORIAM" in The Cyber Hymnal
Caradog Roberts
Daniel Hughes
Person Name: D. H. Author (stanza 3) of "Arglwydd Iesu, arwain f'enaid (Jesus, Saviour, lead my spirit)" in Mawl a chân = praise and song
Daniel Hughes
T. Osborne Roberts
1879 - 1948 Person Name: T. Osborne Roberts. 1879-1948 Composer of "PENNANT" in Welsh and English Hymns and Anthems
T. Osborne Roberts
S. J. Griffith
1850 - 1893 Person Name: S. J. Griffith, 1880-? Author of "Arglwydd Iesu, Arwai F'enaid" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: Circa September 1850, Trefort, Glamorgan, Wales.
Brynhyfryd: Congregational>Pentecostal.
The Congregational churches of Wales were bitterly divided by the "Battle of the Two Constitutions", as it became known, whichlasted from 1877 to 1885. The dispute was between those who favoured the "old" constitution for the denomination's
Theological College in Bala, and those who wished to adopt a new one. R. Tudur Jones describes the dispute as one which rocked Congregationalism to it's foundations, with animosity, at times, on a personal level.
Tabernacle was deeply affected by the dispute, and in 1882 a large section of the membership left the church, and met on a temporary basis in the Town Hall. A new chapel was built, and was opened in March 1884 with some 200 members, the new church prospered, so that by 1897 the membership had grown to 450.
The new chapel was only a short distance down the hill from Tabernacle, to a design by Owen Morris Roberts.
S.J.Griffith (Morswyn), author of the hymn "Arglwydd Iesu, arwain f'enaid", was one of those who left Tabernacle, he became a deacon and precentor at this church, until his untimely death in 1893, at the age of forty-three.
--www.capeli.org.uk/
S. J. Griffith
Geo. J. Jones
Person Name: G. J. Jones Composer of "PEN-Y-GROES" in Old and New Welsh and English Hymns G. J. Jones, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
--Old and New Welsh and English Hymns (1939), #149.
Geo. J. Jones
