Daniel Godfrey
Daniel Godfrey may refer to: * Daniel Godfrey (bandmaster) (1831–1903), bandmaster, composer and arranger of compositions for military bands * Dan Godfrey (1868–1939), his son, British music conductor * Daniel Strong Godfrey Daniel Strong Godfrey (born 1949 in ryn Mawr, PA is an American composer who has written for symphonic bands as well as a large body of chamber and orchestral music. He began composing at the age of eight while his family was living in Anka ...

Daniel Godfrey (bandmaster)
Daniel Godfrey (4 September 1831 – 30 June 1903) was a bandmaster, composer and arranger of compositions for military bands. He was for many years bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards. Life He was born in Westminster in 1831, eldest of four sons of Charles Godfrey, bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards for fifty years. His eldest brother, George William Godfrey, was well known as a playwright. Daniel Godfrey was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, where he subsequently became professor of military music and was elected a fellow. In his early days he was a flute player in the orchestra of Louis-Antoine Jullien and at the Royal Italian Opera. In 1856, on the recommendation of Sir Michael Costa, he was, through the influence of the Prince Consort Albert, appointed bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards. One of his first duties was to play into London the brigade of guards returning from the Crimean War. In 1863 he composed his "Guards" waltz for the ball given by the officers of the ...
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Dan Godfrey
Sir Daniel Eyers "Dan" Godfrey (20 June 1868 – 20 July 1939) was a British music conductor and member of a musical dynasty that included his father Daniel Godfrey (bandmaster), Daniel Godfrey (1831–1903). His son, also Dan Godfrey, was also a musician, station manager at BBC Manchester in the 1920s, and the first full-time conductor of the BBC Wireless Orchestra (1924–1926). He was born in London, a member of a distinguished family of English bandmasters, and son of the bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards - (to whom the waltz ''Les Grenadiers'', Op. 207, by Émile Waldteufel was dedicated.) He founded the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in 1893 and remained its leading conductor for 41 years, until 1934. Although he was contracted by the Bournemouth Corporation to conduct a seasonal band of 30 musicians, his ambition was to build a permanent symphony orchestra in the town. Godfrey gave the first performance of the reconstruction of Va ...
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