David Evans (Composer)
Born: 6th February 1874, Resolven, Glamorgan, Wales
Died: 17th May 1948, Rhosllanerchrugog, Wales
Nationality: Welsh
David Evans was a Welsh musician, academic and composer.
Evans was born at Resolven, Glamorgan. He worked in the coal industry as a teenager, but music was always his primary interest. He won a music scholarship and became a pupil of Joseph Parry, which led to his qualifying at University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1895. He went on to become organist and choirmaster of Jewin Calvinistic Methodist Church in London. He succeeded Joseph Parry, his former teacher, in the Music department at Cardiff, where he was appointed a professor in 1908.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Evans_(composer)