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HENRY BRINLEY RICHARDS

13thNovember 1819 --- 1stMay 1885

Richards, who was born in Carmarthen in 1819. His father owned a music shop in Lower Market Street in Carmarthen and he also played
the organ in St Peter’s Church,  and ran a philharmonic  society as well as a local band. Unusally Henry did not speak Welsh fluently,  but
he was a gifted pianist at a very young age. Richards spent as much time as he could in his father’s shop trying out new music.

Richards started his composing career by submitting variations on The Ash Grove   at the Eisteddfod of 1834 in Wales. Crucially the Duke
of Newcastle who happened to be in attendanceand was so impressed by  the young man that he  arranged for him to study  at the Royal
Academy of Music, Henry did well at the Royal  Academy and he made lifelong friends there,  including composers like Sir Arthur Sullivan.

He traveled to Paris to  continued his studies, under  the tutelage of Chopin, who got  a Parisian publisher to  publish a piano piece of his.
Richards compositions  included a symphony,  the first ever  to be written  by a Welshman,  of which there  is sadly  no trace.  He became
celebrated for improvising on Welsh airs, like Chopin, he return back to London,  were he was appointed instructor at the Royal Academy
and in due course became its Director.

Richards sat on numerous committees relating to music and to his native Wales and became a adjudicator at the National Eisteddfod,  he
composed one of  his most popular piece  God bless  the Prince of Wales (1863).  By the 1870s  huge choirs were in  vogue and great was
Brinley Richards’s delight at the triumph of the South Wales Choral Union in the Crystal Palace choir competitions.

Richards caught a cold at the end of April 1885 and died after three days’ illness.  His funeral was attended by a  huge gathering of many
grateful Welshmen and friends.

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