Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1 October 1891 – 7 September 1918) was a Welsh composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano. A prolific composer, as well as a member of influential intellectual circles, she died shortly before her 27th birthday.

Jan 4, 2018 · Morfydd Owen’s high achievements as a composer and performer, her movie-star looks, mercurial personality and mysterious death have all combined to ensure her posterity as the great lost hope of Welsh music.

Morfydd Owen was a versatile and sensitive musician and an unusually gifted composer. Her compositions, which include orchestral and choral works, chamber music, piano solos, songs and folk-song arrangements, have striking originality, impeccable technique, and …

Oct 4, 2023 · This week we are celebrating the life and music of Welsh composer Morfydd Owen, who was born October 1, 1891. A brilliant pianist, singer, and composer, Owen’s tremendous oeuvre of work has been underperformed since her tragic death in …

Morfydd Owen (1891-1918) No other Welsh composer has fascinated later generations more than Morfydd Owen. Dying at the age of just twenty-six, her output already consisted of some 180 works, many of great promise and already showing considerable individuality.

Morfydd Owen was a beautiful and romantic young woman, and her emotions are expressed freely in her music. Many of her works are advanced and innovative, and often astonishingly beautiful. As a singer herself, she composed with an especial understanding of …

Sep 28, 2022 · This month’s book, Rhian Davies‘s bilingual pictorial biography of Morfydd Owen, is a narrative that offers context and illumination for a life of which we actually know very little. I always feel that a book like this is a labour of love of the best kind.

No other Welsh composer has fascinated later generations more than Morfydd Owen. Dying at the age of just twenty-six, her output already consisted of some 180 works, many of great promise and already showing considerable individuality.

Jan 5, 2022 · Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891-1918) One of the greatest musical talents yet seen in Wales, Morfydd Owen was born at Treforest in South Wales in 1891. Both her father, an accountant, and her mother were accomplished amateur musicians, and Morfydd showed great musical talent at an early age.

Aug 4, 2018 · A hundred years ago (September 18, 1917) the work of Morfydd Owen, a Welsh composer almost forgotten until recently, was performed at the Proms, under the baton of the illustrious Henry Wood. She was just 26. Morfydd Llwyn Owen was in distinguished company.