• 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.