Arthur Somervell
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About Arthur Somervell
Sir Arthur Somervell (5 June 1863 – 2 May 1937) was an English composer, and after Hubert Parry one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s-1900s. He was born in Windermere, Westmorland, the son of the founder of K Shoes, and was initially educated at Uppingham School and King's College, Cambridge,[1] where he studied composition under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. From 1883 to 1885 he studied at the High School for Music
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Somervell: Love in Spring-Time: No. 3, Young Love Lies Sleeping
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To Lucasta, On Going To The Wars
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Into My Heart An Air That Kills
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A Shropshire Lad: II. When I was one-and-twenty
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There Pass the Careless People
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A Kingdom by the Sea
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A Shropshire Lad: I. Loveliest of Trees
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A Shropshire Lad: VII. White in the moon the long road lies
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White in the Moon
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A Shropshire Lad: III. There pass the careless people
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