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"Paham mae dicter, O Myfanwy,
Yn llenwi'th lygaid duon di?"

Parry was born at this house, 4 Chapel Row, Merthyr Tydfil, in 1841, to a poor but musical family. He left school at the age of nine to work in a coal mine and later at the Cyfarthfa ironworks, before emigrating with his family to the USA. He learned music theory from musical colleagues during a layoff at the Rough & Ready Ironworks at Danville, Pennsylvania. His compositions attracted attention in Wales and funds were raised that enabled him to study at Cambridge. He was later to become the first professor of music at Aberystwyth.

Parry's works include the first opera in Welsh, Blodwen. He is best remembered for his part song Myfanwy, a lament of unrequited love much performed by male voice choirs, and for the striding, minor-mode hymn tune Aberystwyth, often used for the hymn Jesu, Lover of my Soul. See Wikipedia
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