Thomas Jones Davies
Life
Born: 1854
Died: 1926
Biography
Thomas Jones Davies was born in Ystalyfera, Glamorgan, Wales, with the family moving to the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area when he was about five. He worked in the mines at age seven, but studied music on his own, winning prizes in sight-singing and choral work as a teenager. He ventured into the piano and organ business at Scranton, leaving that to study at Leipzig University, but changed his plans and studied under Joseph Parry at the Musical College of Wales. He also studied two years in London, then completed a degree at Toronto University. He returned to the U.S. and established a successful career teaching voice, harmony, and composition—first in Scranton, then in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was choir master of the First Welsh Congregational Church at Pittsburg, and conductor of the Cambro-American Choral Society and other choirs. He was an active adjudicator and participant in many eisteddfods throughout the region. He died in Pittsburg. His compositions are mostly hymns and part songs, in Welsh and in English.
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List of choral works
Secular works
Partsongs for Male voices
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Publications
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