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Ivor Novello. Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. He was born into a musical family, and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the ...
May 18, 2010 · His country home, Redroofs in Maidenhead, Berkshire, later became Redroofs Theatre School, and in the 1950s the Ivor Novello Awards, presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ...
May 14, 2018 · NOVELLO, IvorNationality: British. Born: David Ivor Davies in Cardiff, Wales, 15 January 1893. Education: Attended Magdalen College Choir School, Oxford, and chorister of Magdalen College, 1905–11; studied composition with Dr. Brewer, Gloucester.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1893, he was the son of a tax-collector father and a well-known singing teacher mother. His prodigious musical skills were evident fairly early. Trained at the Magdalen College Choir School on a soprano scholarship, he soon began writing songs under the name Ivor Novello.
- January 15, 1893
- March 6, 1951
Mar 29, 2024 · March 6, 1951, London, Eng. (aged 58) Ivor Novello (born Jan. 15, 1893, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales—died March 6, 1951, London, Eng.) was a Welsh actor-manager, composer, and playwright, best known for his lush, sentimental, romantic musicals. Novello, the son of the celebrated Welsh singing teacher, Dame Clara Novello Davies, was educated ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Yet a cultural grounding Novello did to some extent have, albeit not under the name Novello. In 1893 he was born David Ivor Davies and, at ten years old, this boy in Cardiff won a choral scholarship to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where he was a choirboy for six years.
A leg up: Ivor Novello at the piano in the 1928 film The Vortex. KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK. Alexandra Coghlan. Sunday July 02 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times. I vor Novello was once described as “the ...
