Sir (Henry) Walford Davies
Music is a stream of living history, a current record of man's mind kept healthy by its movement, ever changing,
never loosing its primal values...
Many of the pieces is Davies' A Students Hymnal are credited to the 'University of Wales'.
Here are his comments from the introduction:
A COMMUNION OF COMPOSERS
Some of the tunes in this book whose authorship is collectively marked 'University of Wales' have been composed by a small community
of minds. In two cases no less than five melodists took an essential part in a four-line tune. The actual selection of tunes for the
whole book has been made by many minds, but finally referred to one, so that the Editor became personally responsible for all flaws
of choice.
Time Line
- born:
- Oswestry, Shropshire, 6 September 1869
- 1885 - 1890
- Studied Organ at St. George's Chapel, Windsor with Walter Parrett.
- 1890
- Studied Composition at the Royal College of Music from Hubert Parry &
Charles Villiers Stanford.
- 1891
- Organist at Christ Church, Hampstead
- 1895
- Teacher at the Royal College
- 1898
- Organist at the Temple Church, London
- 1901
- Oratorio Everyman
- 1917
- R.A.F. Music Director
- 1919-26
- Teacher at the University of Wales
- 1922
- Knighted
- 1923
- Edited A Students' Hymnal, Oxford University Press
- 1926-29
- Music and the Ordinary Listener, BBC broadcasts
- 1927
- Organist at St. George's Chapel
- 1933
- The Church Anthem Book w/ Henry G. Ley, Oxford University Press
- 1934
- Succeeded Elgar as the Master of the King's Musick.
- died:
- Oswestry, Shropshire, 6 September 1869