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Daniel Jenkyn Jones OBE (7 December 1912 – 23 April 1993) was
a Welsh composer of classical music.
Jones was born in Pembroke, Wales. He studied at the University of
Wales and the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers included
Sir Henry Wood. A Mendelssohn Travelling Scholarship allowed him to
study in Czechoslovakia, France, Holland and Germany, and to
develop his skills as a linguist. He later employed these abilities
during the Second World War as a cryptographer and decoder of
Russian, Romanian and Japanese at Bletchley Park.
He enjoyed long friendships with several leading Welsh artists,
amongst them Vernon Watkins, Ceri Richards and Grace Williams.
However, he is probably best remembered as the friend from
childhood of Dylan Thomas, and composed the music for the 1954
radio production of Thomas's Under Milk Wood, as well as editing
several collections of Thomas's poetry and prose. Jones' fourth
symphony is dedicated to Thomas' memory, and he also wrote a
biography of the poet, My Friend Dylan Thomas, in 1977.
Jones wrote twelve numbered symphonies in all, plus a later
Symphony in Memory of John Fussell. Among his other works are
chamber music, including eight string quartets and a sonata for
three timpani, orchestral and choral works, and several
operas.
Jones was made an OBE in 1968. He died in Swansea.
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