Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Morfydd Llwyn Owen (October 1, 1891 September 7, 1918) was a Welsh composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano. Though she lived an abbreviated life, dying shortly before her 27th birthday, Owen was a prolific composer, as well as a member of influential intellectual circles. Owen was born in Treforest, South Wales, October 1, 1891. Her parents were both amateur musicians who ran a drapery business. She was a musical child, showing great talent at an early age and received piano lessons early on. While in her teens she appeared as a soloist in a performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto. At 16 she began to study piano and composition with Dr David Evans in Cardiff and published her first work in 1909, a hymn tune entitled Morfydd. .