Parry

Ignoramus as I am, I've always believed until recently that the Parry who composed "Jerusalem" was one and the same man who had composed the hymn "Aberystwyth"; that Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry was the same guy as Joseph Parry.
Simon Heffer, writing in last Sunday's Telegraph, believes that Hubert Parry is a composer who has been much neglected not least by The Proms but that this year they have made amends to a degree by the inclusion of not just his "Jerusalem" - which they wouldn't dare leave out of every "last night" - but of other works of his like his Sinfonietta.
I clicked on "Spotify" and put his name in the slot and up came a whole page of his works (with "Jerusalem" at the top of course); I discovered that he is indeed as Heffer maintains a wonderful composer of, my words now, light, English music - not as light as Percy Grainger but lighter that Vaughan Williams (who was once a student of his and a great admirer too).
Joseph Parry, described on a website as Wales's greatest composer, did not, of course, write "Jerusalem" but he did compose two other popular works that have been sung in Wales, if not elsewhere, for over a century: the hymn "Aberystwyth" and the song "Myfanwy".
He is not on the Spotify list so I was unable to sample any of his other works in order to discover if he does qualify as "Wales's greatest composer" (not much competition really).
He led an interesting life from working in an iron mine in Merthyr Tydfil at the age of nine to emigrating with his family to the USA where he worked again in a mine; from learning music to becoming a composer; from relative obscurity to become Professor of music at Aberystwyth University.
A few matters of some interest about these composers: Jack Jones's famous novel "Off to Philadelphia in the Morning" was a "life" of Joseph Parry; neither of the composers is mentioned in my three inch wide copy of Hutchinson's Encyclopedia.
According to Heffer, George Bernard Shaw was "afraid to meet him in case he was spellbound by Parry's personality". I find that hard to believe. I feel Shaw's reluctance may have had something to do with his work as a music critic; when he reviewed Elgar's "Enigma Variations" he wrote "English music has arrived at last". The "Enigma" came two years after Parry's Symphonic Variations about which Heffer writes "it is the finest work written by an Englishman in the 19th Century".
Mmmm!