Dafydd Llywelyn (10 January 1939, in South Wales – 25 March 2013, in Munich)[1] was a Welsh composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.
Llywelyn, born in South Wales, received his first piano lessons from his father[2] and later from priests in a monastic boarding school in the Midlands.
He received an important musical influence from the pianist and later close friend Shura Cherkassky, who showed him the tradition of the old masters' polyphonic piano playing.
The deep religiosity of his work, which he was already composing in a meditative state since his youth, was in large part inspired by the early loss of his mother.
His works are played around the world by such pianists as Boris Berezovsky,[10] Nathan Carterette,[8] and Severin von Eckardstein,.