Daniel Jones (composer)
Daniel Jenkyn Jones ( born December 7, 1912 in Pembroke, Wales, † April 23, 1993 in Swansea, Wales) was a Welsh composer and conductor. He came from a musical family; his father Jenkyn Jones was also a composer, his mother a singer.
From 1935 he studied, among others with Sir Henry Wood and Harry Farjeon. 1951 won his '' Symphonic Prologue '' the First Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society. He was a friend since high school with Dylan Thomas and composed the music for the 1954 radio play Under Milk Wood. The finished version was sent in January 1954 with the participation Richard Burton, who spoke to the main part of the first voice for the first time on the radio and even with the significant Hörspielpreis Prix Italia Award in the same year. Dylan Thomas, however, should not live to see the worldwide success of Under Milk Wood; he died two months before the groundbreaking first broadcast of the piece at the age of 40 years.
Jones composed, inter alia, 14 symphonies, the fourth of which he dedicated to Dylan Thomas.
At 1968 Jones was by Queen Elizabeth II as Officer of the Order of the British Empire appointed.