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is name has become known to many thousands of people who have not been interested hitherto in music or in musicians. He proved himself to be one of the very few lecturers who could immediately establish the sense of personal contact with audiences over the wireless. They have felt that they knew him
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Stanford, who was appointed professor of music at Cambridge in 1887 disapproved of this arrangement, and in the mid-1890s persuaded the university authorities to require a course of study at Cambridge as a prerequisite for sitting the examinations. Other universities followed suit
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Davies resigned his professorship at Aberystwyth in 1926, when he was appointed by the BBC as a music adviser, but he remained chairman of the National Council of Music until his death. He was from 1927 to 1932 organist and director of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
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Davies's BBC broadcast in April 1924 was the first of many he made between then and 1941. He became well known for his programmes "Music and the Ordinary Listener" (1926–9), his wartime broadcasts for children (1939–41), and "Everyman's Music" (1940–41).
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Plaque on the wall of Christ Church, Oswestry, whose accompanying inscription includes "Born in 1869 in Willow Street, Oswestry, Walford Davies sang as a chorister in this church (where his father was organist) before moving to St George's,
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Gregory, and the youngest of four surviving sons. It was a musical family: Davies senior, an accountant by profession was a keen amateur musician, who founded and conducted a choral society at Oswestry and was choirmaster of Christ Church
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Davies joined the Committee for Music in War Time under Parry's chairmanship, organised concerts for the troops in France and musical events for the Fight for Right movement. In 1918 he was appointed director of music of the
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and chairman of the National Council of Music. Here, in the words of his biographer Henry Ley, he "laboured unceasingly for the musical enlightenment of the principality", and in 1922 he was knighted in
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and could enter into music, which was the absorbing interest of his life, through the personal relation which he always established immediately with his audiences. It was an almost unique gift.
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was tumultuously received, and in the next few years given by every choral society in the country which aimed at a standard of firstrateness." The work was also given in Australia and the US.
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Colles wrote that Davies's regular listeners felt a proprietorial interest in him, recording one of them as remarking, "He always seemed to come right into the room with us."
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The title, long rendered as "Master of the King's Musick", was changed to the modern spelling during Elgar's tenure. Although
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and others continued to favour the old spelling, Davies's appointment was officially gazetted as "Master of the Music".
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for a year until 1891, when he resigned for health reasons. In the following year was appointed organist of
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and the corporation's music administration moved there on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
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P. S. and B. Lyons and Witham Hall, Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury, Friday, February 8, 1985
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When his voice broke in 1885 Davies left the choir and later that year was appointed organist of the
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wrote, "he music itself was not like anything he had written before or would write again.
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As a composer Davies achieved his most substantial success in 1904, with his cantata
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Only the first two movements were completed, the third movement is unfinished.
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In May 1898 Davies was appointed organist and director of the choir at the
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Holst, Walford Davies, Vaughan Williams: Works for Violin and Piano
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In 1890 Davies was awarded a scholarship in composition at the
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Davies wrote "God Be in My Head" and several other pieces at
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called him "one of the world's first great broadcasters";
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Walford Davies (left) in about 1932 with fellow musicians
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during the First World War, during which he composed the
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Henry Walford Davies was born in the Shropshire town of
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Te Deum, for double choir and orchestra, Op. 56 (1930)
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In 1919 Davies accepted the professorship of music at
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and (for a single term) Stanford for composition, and
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Piano Quintet in G major, Op. 54 (1927, revised 1940)
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from 1919 to 1947. In 1882 Walford was accepted as a
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Index

Henry Walford Davies
Sir
KCVO
OBE

Master of the King's Music
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Edward Elgar
Arnold Bax
Oswestry
Shropshire
Wrington
North Somerset
Alma mater
Royal College of Music
KCVO
OBE
Master of the King's Music
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force March Past
British Broadcasting Corporation
Oswestry
Congregational church
Harold
University of Adelaide
chorister at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Sir George Elvey
Royal Chapel of All Saints

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