Victor Edward Galway

Victor Edward Galway (24 May 1894 – 9 July 1960) was a New Zealand music academic, organist, conductor and composer.

Biography

Victor Galway was born in Colchester, Essex, England in 1894.

In 1919 Galway moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, to take up the position of organist and choirmaster at First Church of Otago.

Galway also served as conductor of the Dunedin Choral Society, conductor of the Otago University Musical Society, and president of the Otago Society of Musicians. Most of his compositions were for choral music, and several of his pieces were published by Oxford University Press.

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1953, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.

Galway suffered a stroke in 1954 and shortly afterwards retired from the University of Otago. He died at Cherry Farm Hospital, near Dunedin, on 9 July 1960, survived by his daughter. His wife Janette, whom he married in 1917, predeceased him.

Selected works

"Who is Sylvia?" - choral work Six works in the Dominion Song Book No. 13 (1949) Magnificat in G Nunc Dimittis in G Two anthems: Let us now praise famous men and Grant, we beseech thee