OWEN
,
RICHARD GRIFFITH
(
Pencerdd Llyfnwy;
1869
-
1930
),
musician
;
b.
1 April 1869
at
Pen-yr-yrfa
,
Tal-y-sarn, Caerns.
, the son of
Hugh
Owen
(q.v.)
and
Mary
Owen
of
Bryn-y-Coed
,
Tal-y-sarn
, his wife. He learnt to
play the ‘cello and the clarinet
and to
make orchestral arrangements
. Later, he became
responsible for writing the orchestral arrangements of hymn-tunes
, etc., which were sung
at singing festivals held by
Calvinistic Methodists
and
Congregationalists
in
Caernarvonshire
and elsewhere. He took the prize at the
Corwen national eisteddfod
,
1919
, for
orchestral arrangements of some Welsh airs
. Other eisteddfodic successes were a temperance cantata, and anthems. He published a collection of hymn-tunes under the title of
Llais y Durtur
and there are hymn-tunes by him in
Llyfr Tonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleyaidd
and in
Perorydd yr Ysgol Sul
. He. d.
24 May 1930
, and was buried in the
Caernarvon
cemetery.
Bibliography:
-
Y Goleuad
,
28 May 1930
.
Author:
Robert David Griffith, M.A., (1877-1958), Old Colwyn
