Meredith Davies, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Meredith Davies

British conductor

Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1922

Date of Death: 09-Mar-2005

Profession: conductor, organist, choir director

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

(Albert) Meredith Davies CBE (30 July 1922 – 9 March 2005) was a British conductor, renowned for his advocacy of English music by composers such as Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius and Ralph Vaughan Williams. His co-conducting, with the composer, of the premiere of Britten's War Requiem, at the re-consecration of Coventry Cathedral on 30 May 1962, is generally regarded as one of the highlights of British 20th-century choral music.