HARRIS, GRIFFITH (1811-1892), musician;
b. at Carmarthen, the son of Griffith and Mary Harris. He had a clothier's shop at Carmarthen. He was precentor at Water Street Calvinistic Methodist chapel; he also conducted a town choir. In 1849 he published a collection of 260 hymn-tunes under the title of Haleluwia, this being followed in 1855 by Haleliwia Drachefn, containing 200 hymn-tunes; the two collections are important as they include the early hymn-tunes which were sung during the religious revivals of the 18th cent. He d. 1 Nov. 1892 and was buried in the Water Street graveyard.
Bibliography:
- Ceitho;
- M. O. Jones, Byw. Cerdd. Cymr.
Author:
Robert David Griffith, M.A., (1877-1958), Old Colwyn
