Short Name: | Joseph Parry |
Full Name: | Parry, Joseph, 1841-1903 |
Birth Year: | 1841 |
Death Year: | 1903 |
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.
Bert Polman
Tunes by Joseph Parry (18) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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ABERTEIFI | Joseph Parry. 1841-1903 (Composer) | 2 | 17123 43212 53176 |
ABERYSTWYTH (Parry) | Joseph Parry (Composer) | 253 | 11234 53213 21712 |
BLAEN-Y-COED | Joseph Parry. 1841-1903 (Composer) | 3 | 12331 71227 |
COLUMBUS (Parry) | Dr. Joseph Parry (Composer) | 2 | 13234 51321 |
CÔR CAERSALEM | Joseph Parry. 1841-1903 (Composer) | 3 | 51656 12343 213 |
DANVILLE | Dr. Joseph Parry (Composer) | 3 | 32123 45654 35176 |
DIES IRAE (Parry) | Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 (Composer) | 4 | 51717 24512 32576 |
DINBYCH | Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 (Composer) | 14 | 15554 32234 5475 |
GWENGAR | Joseph Parry 1841-1903 (Composer) | 2 | 54532 17666 43321 |
LLANGRISTIOLUS | Joseph Parry (Composer) | 7 | 15312 17113 21543 |
MARTYN (Marsh) | Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 (Composer) | 1 | 33312 22335 43213 |
MERTHYR TYDFIL | Joseph Parry (Composer) | 20 | 51715 74512 32576 |
[O home beloved, where'er I wander] | Dr. Joseph Parry (Composer) | 2 | 51111 21171 22223 |
PENNSYLVANIA (Parry) | Dr. Joseph Parry (Composer) | 6 | 31322 53543 21 |
PORTMADOC | Jos. Parry (Composer) | 2 | 55311 71432 33176 |
SIRIOLDEB | Joseph Parry. 1841-1903 (Composer) | 3 | 55117 12233 21765 |
ST. JOSEPH (Parry) | Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 (Composer) | 2 | |
Y MILWR BACH | Dr. Joseph Parry. (1841-1903) (Composer) | 3 | 13353 32344 323 |