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    Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King's...
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  • opening titles feature the Royal Air Force March Past composed by Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE. Angels One Five was the ninth most popular at the British...
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  • cricketer Henry Rodolph Davies (1865–1950), British Army general Henry Lowrie Davies (1898–1975), British Army general Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941)...
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    Chapels Royal, usually the Bishop of London. During Solemn Melody by Henry Walford Davies, politicians, high commissioners and religious leaders from many...
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    (1853–1924) – Isaiah (1897) Lorenzo Perosi – La Passione di Cristo (1897) Henry Walford Davies – Days of Man (1897) Lorenzo Perosi – La Trasfigurazione di Cristo...
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    English text include John Clarke-Whitfeld, Charles Villiers Stanford, Henry Walford Davies, Mildred Barnes Royse, and Imant Raminsh. Heinrich Schütz created...
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    Westminster Abbey, in consultation with the Master of the King's Musick, Henry Walford Davies. The Abbey choir was supplemented by choirs from the Chapel Royal...
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    Music. His teachers there were Sir Walter Parratt, Charles Wood, and Henry Walford Davies. Harris was organist at St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston from 1911...
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    English Hymnal of 1906 (transcribed below). Two versions also exist by Henry Walford Davies, called "Wengen", or "Christmas Carol". "Wengen" was published in...
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    was established in 1933 by the Davies sisters, with the advice of their friend and advisor, Sir Henry Walford Davies (later Master of the King's Music)...
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    pronounced the style of the late king, God be in my Head by Sir Henry Walford Davies was sung. Initially interred in the Royal Vault beneath the Quire...
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    Nicholas' Church, Great Yarmouth) Dr Edward John Hopkins 1843–1897 Sir Henry Walford Davies 1897–1923 Sir George Thalben-Ball 1923–1982 Dr John Birch 1982–1997...
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  • (1586–1638) Stanley Vann (1910–2010) William Litton Viner (1790–1867) Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941) Thomas Forbes Walmisley (1783–1866) Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)...
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    John Cadvan Davies (1846-1923), Wesleyan Minister and Archdruid of the Gorsedd under name of Cadvan, died at Oswestry Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869 in Oswestry...
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    for what he regarded as their embrace of irrationality. The young Henry Walford Davies made a musical setting of Prospice in 1894 for baritone and string...
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  • who wrote O Hearken Thou for the 1911 coronation of George V. Sir Henry Walford Davies, who wrote Confortare (Be strong and play the Man) for the 1937 coronation...
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    "Sans Day Carol". The music was first published by Cecil Sharp. Sir Henry Walford Davies wrote a popular choral arrangement that is often performed at the...
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    the 100th anniversary of the formation of the RAF, in April 2018. Henry Walford Davies, founder of the RAF Central Band Ronnie Aldrich, British easy listening...
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  • we love Herbert Howells John Rutter: Requiem Fredrik Sixten Sir Henry Walford Davies "A Short Requiem" (1915) 'In Sacred Memory of all those who have...
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    (Blaenwern). The other music was Psalm 121 to an arrangement by Sir Henry Walford Davies, sung as the Queen's coffin made its way through the chapel, the...
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  • Dyson, "Only in Sleep" by Ēriks Ešenvalds, and "Solemn Melody" by Henry Walford-Davies. Tom Chatterton, Assistant Organist of the cathedral, played: "Prelude...
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  • Music Festival at their estate, an annual 3–4-day affair directed by Henry Walford Davies that included poetry readings. The festivals played host to important...
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    OCLC 474839729. Sterndale, A.C.; Parker, L.T.; Smith, C.; Reed, P.J.T.; Tabor, F.J.; Davies, F.K.; Allcock, N.J.; Lucking, J.H. (May 1974). White, D.E. (ed.). The Locomotives...
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  • recordings; some of these, such as the Violin Sonata in A major by Henry Walford Davies, the Five Pieces for Violin and Piano by Gustav Holst, and the Sonata...
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  • Berg – Piano Sonata, Op.1 York Bowen – Viola Concerto in C minor Henry Walford Davies – Solemn Melody for organ George Enescu – Cantate pour la pose de...
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    (1874–1934) in early 20th-Century Britain, while contemporary countryman Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941) composed an equivalent setting of the White Paternoster...
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    Wilson Professor of International Politics Sir Henry Walford Davies, Master of the King's Music John Davies, Welsh historian Hannah Dee, Lecturer in Computer...
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  • London's Temple Church by its then organist, Sir Henry Walford Davies. In 1923, he succeeded Walford Davies as organist and director of the Temple Church...
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  • Britain. Reginald Jacques was appointed musical director, with Sir Henry Walford Davies and George Dyson also involved. John Denison took over after the...
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  • Villiers Stanford, Leopold Stokowski, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henry Walford Davies, and Henry Wood. The St George's Chapel Archives, Windsor Castle, maintains...
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