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World Service,4 mins

The composer whose music was only discovered 100 years after her death.

The History Hour

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The Welsh composer Morfydd Owen wrote many songs and piano pieces - including a piano sonata at the age of just 18, and yet most of her works were undiscovered until recently. Brian Ellsbury tell Rebecca Kesby for Witness how he deciphered her recovered manuscripts and was the first person to record the lost music - 100 years after her death. (PHOTO: Welsh composer Morfydd Owen. Credit family picture.)

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