TREHARNE
,
BRYCESON
(
1879
-
1948
),
musician
,
b. in
Merthyr Tydfil, Glam.
, in
1879
. He studied at the
Royal College of Music
,
London
, and held
teaching
posts at
Aberystwyth University College
and in the
University of Adelaide
,
Australia
. He returned to
Europe
in
1911
, spent some time in the
Ruhleben prisoner of war camp
,
Germany
, during
World War I
, and, eventually (
c.
1918
) went to the
U.S.A.
From
1924
he
taught music
in
McGill University
,
Montreal
,
Canada
, but in
1928
he returned to the
U.S.A.
, being for many years afterwards
music editor
to a
Boston
publishing company. Throughout the years he was an active
composer
and some of his solos, e.g. ‘
Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd
’, became popular in
Wales
. A work by him, ‘
The Banshee
’, was performed in the
1938
national
eisteddfod
. He d.
4 Feb. 1948
in
Long Island
,
New York
.
Bibliography:
-
Y Drych newyddiadur cenedlaethol Cymry
America
.,
15 Feb. 1948
;
-
Y Cerddor
,
1900
, 62-4;
-
Y Geninen
Oct. 1951
.
Author:
Robert (Bob) Owen, O.B.E., M.A., (1885-1962), Croesor
