Joseph Parry

Welsh composer, Joseph Parry was born in Wales in 1841. When he was 12 (or 13) his family moved to Pennsylvania (USA) where he lived until his return to Wales in 1868 to study music. He became Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1873 (a year after the university was founded) and taught there until 1877. Parry also taught at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire from 1888 - until his death in 1903. It was during his tenure at Aberystwyth that he wrote the hymn tune, ABERYSTYWYTH for which he is mainly remembered today. The tune was originally published in a Welsh collection entitled Ail Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau in 1879 and it is from this publication that the tune is dated. Joseph Parry died in 1903 and is burried at St. Augustine’s Church, Penarth, Wales.

See Aberystwyth

See Aberystwyth

See Joseph Parry

See University of Wales, Aberystwyth

See Welsh Hymnody

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