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Walford Davies
1869 - 1941
Great Britain, Wales
Henry Walford [Walford] Davies (06/09/1869 - 11/03/1941), an English/Welsh organist, composer and educationist (from Oswestry).
Davies is known to Englishmen of an earlier generation as an effective popularizer of classical music through radio talks and, though he wrote several piano quintets, a symphony and two string quartets, besides a piece for organ and cello and several others of which one should mention the Memorial Melody, written for the death of King George VI (Davies was Master of the King's Music).
Psalm 121 and Requiem aeternam
Psalm 121 and Requiem aeternam is scored for unaccompanied mixed choir.
♫ Psalm 121 & Requiem aeterna Collegium Records CSACD 902
A short requiem
This requiem contains:
01. Salvator Mundi 02. De profundis clamavi 03. Requiem aeternam (1) 04. Levavi oculos 05. Requiem aeternam (2) 06. Audivi vocem 07 Hymn: Mors ui tra non erit 08. Gloria Patri
Requiem
"Requiem", published 1931, for voice and piano, from the collection Twenty-one songs.
The text of "Requiem" by Stevenson:
Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
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