Morfydd Llwyn Owen

Morfydd Owen is famous for being a composer, pianist and singer.  

Morfydd Llwyn Owen
  • Her parents were musical, her mother a gifted singer and pianist.
  • She was educated at Pontypridd County School.
  • 1909: Morfydd won a Caradog Scholarship to the University at Cardiff.
  • 1912: She graduated with a Bachelor of Music and went to the Royal Academy of Music.
  • 1913: She won a Goring Thomas Scholarship and was awarded many of the Academy’s main prizes and medals.
  • She composed works for large and small orchestras, choirs, piano solos, songs, as well as folk song arrangements.
  • Much of her music sprang from a deep personal and national consciousness inspired by the literature and folk tales of her people.
  • Three of her songs – 'To our Lady of Sorrows', 'Slumber Song of the Madonna', and 'Gweddi Pechadur' (A Sinner’s Prayer) – are excellent examples of her genius.
  • 1917: She married the psychologist, Ernest Jones.

Birth Location: Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf 

Date of Birth: 1 October 1891 

Date of Death: 07 September 1918

'If the significance were fully realised a nation would weep at her grave.' – Ben Gwalchmai, Wales Online, 1 Mawrth 2017 – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/if-significance-were-fully-realised-12597069