David Jenkins (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Welsh composer, born 1848
Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1848
Place of Birth: Trecastle, Wales, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 10-Dec-1915
Profession: composer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About David Jenkins (composer)
- David Jenkins (30 December 1848 – 10 December 1915) was a Welsh composer, best known for his choral works and hymn tunes.Born at Trecastle near Brecon, Jenkins was apprenticed to a tailor at a young age, due to the death of his father.
- He did not take an interest in music until he was nine years old.
- At the time, Jenkins was a member of a choir which was to compete in a local Eisteddfod.At age sixteen, his musical interest deepened and Jenkins began serious study of the Tonic-Solfa system.
- Two years later, he received an advanced certificate from the Tonic-Solfa college and began conducting his own choir.
- At age 20, Jenkins and his choir won a competition at Llanddeusant.
- He next turned his attention to the study of composition, harmony and counterpoint and was awarded a prize for the best anthem from the Tonic-Solfa college.In 1874 he began studying music at Aberystwyth.
- By his second term, he had been awarded a three-year scholarship and became an assistant to Joseph Parry.
- Jenkins continued participating in various Eisteddfodau at home and abroad.
- He had won a prize at the Utica, New York Eistoddfod in 1873 and won a national prize at Pwllheli in 1875.
- Jenkins also continued composing and studying music.
- He was awarded the top prize in composing for his cantata Arch y Cyfamod at Carnarvon in 1876; the next year, Jenkins received a Bachelor of Music degree from Cambridge University.Jenkins spent four months touring the United States in 1885; during that time he served as a conductor and as a judge at the various singing festivals.
- In 1893 he returned to Aberystwyth as a lecturer.
- Jenkins continued composing while at the university; composing an oratorio, Dewi Sant (Saint David), for the 1894 Eisteddfod at Carnarvon, and a cantata, The Psalm of Life for the 1895 Cardiff Triennial Festival.
- This work was performed by 2,000 voices at the Crystal Palace, London in the same year.He continued his activities conducting choirs and serving as a judge at various Eisteddfodau; Jenkins also became a co-editor of the music journal Y Cerddor, sharing the duties with Emlyn Evans.
- He rose to Professor at Aberystwyth in 1910; retaining this position until his death in 1915.
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