Davie, Cedric Thorpe (1913–1983)

Scottish composer and organist. He studied at the Scottish National Academy of Music in Glasgow, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and later the Royal College of Music there, where he was a pupil of Reginald Morris, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Gordon Jacob, gaining the Cobbett and Sullivan Prizes in 1935. He also studied piano with Egon Petri in Germany, and composition with Zoltán Kodály in Budapest, Hungary, and Yryö Kilpinen in Helsinki, Finland. He was head of music at St Andrews University from 1945.

Works Stage opera Gammer Gurton's Needle, ballad opera The Forrigan Reel (James Bridie).

Instrumental concerto for piano and strings; string quartet; violin and piano sonata, sonatinas for cello and piano and flute and piano.

Vocal eight Little Songs.