ArtistInfo

Dan Godfrey

1868-1939 GB, London
Conductor of Classical

Sir Dan Godfrey (20 June 1868 – 20 July 1939) was a British music conductor and member of a musical dynasty that included his father Dan(iel) 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.)

Genres

• Classical
• Pop