Joseph Parry (1841 - 1903)
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Joseph Parry (21 May 1841 ? 17 February 1903), was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of Myfanwy and Aberystwyth (a hymn tune) used in Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika the National anthem of South Africa.

The cottage at 4 Chapel Row, Merthyr Tydfil, where Parry was born, is now open to the public as a museum.[1] Parry's family emigrated to the United States in 1854, when he was 13, and he became an ironworker in Danville, Pennsylvania. There was a large Welsh community there and he became involved in strengthening Welsh culture locally. When, in 1865, he was admitted to the Gorsedd at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, he took the bardic name, 'Pencerdd America'.

He became a Freemason in 1867, while in Pennsylvania. His 1875 song, Ysgytwad y Llaw (The Handshake) appears to acknowledge his connection with the movement. He returned to Great Britain and studied music in London under William Sterndale Bennett and at the University of Cambridge.[2] In 1873 he became Professor of Music at the University of Wales.

In 1876, he joined the masonic lodge at Aberystwyth, and became their organist. His opera, Blodwen, was first performed in the town's Temperance Hall on 21 May 1878, and was an enormous success, racking up a further 500 performances worldwide by 1896. His oratorio, Saul of Tarsus, was commissioned for the National Eisteddfod at Rhyl in 1892, and was also a major success. In about 1881, the Parry family left Aberystwyth for Swansea.

A resident of Penarth in his later years, Parry died there and is buried in St. Augustine's Churchyard, Penarth.

He was the subject of a BBC dramatisation in 1978 entitled Off to Philadelphia in the Morning based on the book by Jack Jones, another of Merthyr Tydfil's famous sons.
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Daughters of Erin
Joseph Parry

Brass trio / 4 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 11 Dec 2018

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O'Reillys Greyhound Hornpipe
Joseph Parry

Trumpet solo / 1 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 19 Jan 2019

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Aberystwyth
Joseph Parry

Choral SATB, Organ / 1 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Lawrence Paul Sundararaj, Lawrence

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1876
By lawrencepaul, the 25 Nov 2016

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Canary Bird Waltz
Joseph Parry

Trumpet and Trombone (duet) / 3 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 10 Sep 2018

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Full of the Bag Hornpipe
Joseph Parry

Trumpet solo / 1 PDF / Intermediate
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By messerman, the 13 Jan 2019

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My Nannie
Joseph Parry

Brass trio / 4 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 18 Jan 2019

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Pipers Despair Hornpipe
Joseph Parry

Trumpet solo / 1 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 21 Jan 2019

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Fiddlers Contest Hornpipe
Joseph Parry

Trumpet solo / 1 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 12 Feb 2019

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Dance Tune
Joseph Parry

Brass trio / 4 PDF / Intermediate
Arranger : Messerschmidt, Hans Jorgen

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By messerman, the 18 Mar 2019