Wyn Morris

Wyn Morris ( born February 14, 1929 in Trellech; † 23 February 2010) was a Welsh conductor and choir.

Life

Morris studied in London at the Royal Academy of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Igor Markevitch and was awarded the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood. In 1965 he founded the Symphonica of London, with whom he realized many of his projects on the concert stage and on records recordings. From 1968 to 1970 he headed the Royal Choral Society, and from 1969 to 1974 the Huddersfield Choral Society. He also worked regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Morris was considered a specialist in the works of Gustav Mahler, whose symphonies he recorded almost entirely in the 1960s and 1970s as one of the first conductors to LP. He published the first recordings of Mahler's Song of Lamentation (1967 ) and by Deryck Cooke's second version of the completed Mahler Symphony No. 10 (1972). He also played a Barry Cooper completion of the 10th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1988 on CD.