About George Butterworth
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885-1916) was an English composer, best known for his settings of A.E. Housman's poems. Born on 12th July 1885, he studied at Trinity College, Oxford, with fellow composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, going on to become a music critic for The Times while composing and teaching at Radley College, a public school in Oxfordshire. Between 1911 and 1912, he composed two of the most enduring cycles of British song: Bredon Hill and Other Songs and Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", both settings of Housman poems.
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The Banks of Green Willow
A Shropshire Lad
Fantasia (completed by K. Russman)
A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody
2 English Idylls: No. 1. English Idyll
6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty
2 English Idylls: No. 2. English Idyll
The Lads in their hundreds (A Shropshire Lad)
When I was One-and-Twenty (A Shropshire Lad)
Two English Idylls
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