ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician

Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In 1866 he was appointed sub-organist at Bangor cathedral, subsequently following Hayden as organist, a post which he held for the remainder of his life. He was also a competent player on the piano, the violin, and the 'cello. He composed several pieces of music, among them being ' Y Gwlithyn,' ' Tynnwn ein rhwyfau yn gryf,' and a cantata entitled ' Gwarchae Harlech,' besides several hymn-tunes which were published in Llyfr y Psalmau (Alawydd) and Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau (E. Stephen). He died in February 1871, and was buried in Glanadda cemetery, Bangor.

Author

• Robert David Griffith, (1877 - 1958)

Sources

• W. ParryLlyfr Hanes Llenyddiaeth ac Enwogion Llanllechid a Llandegai (1921)
• Y Cerddor Cymreig (1861-1873), March 1871
• Y Cerddor, July 1893.

Additional Links

• VIAF: 162144647691021874759
• Wikidata: Q20804761

Published date: 1959

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