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CWMDU

Composer: David Emlyn Evans (1843-1913)

Born: September 21, 1843, Penralltwen, near Castellnewydd Emlyn (Castle Emlyn), Carmarthenshire, Wales. Died: January 19, 1913, Cemmaes, Montgomeryshire. Buried: Llandyfriog (near Newcastle Emlyn), Wales. Evans was a composer, adjudicator, conductor, editor, critic, music historian and entrepreneur. Frequently irascible, especially in his last years which he spent in severe and immobilizing pain, he was one of the foremost figures in Welsh musical life in the period leading up to World War I. He was self taught, via the most popular of all Welsh music publications, John Mills’ Gramadeg Cerddoriaeth, and the two parts of Thomas Williams’ Ceinion Cerddoriaeth (Musical Gems, 1852) with its 200 hymn tunes and seventy anthems and cho… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: CWMDU
Composer: David Emlyn Evans (1843-1913)
Meter: 8.3.3.6
Incipit: 55551 33223 17165
Key: c minor
Copyright: Tune used by permission of Jrs. J. W. Jones.

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The Hymnal #511b

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