George Butterworth
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916) was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.
Read more about George Butterworth: Early Years, First World War, A Shropshire Lad, and Other Compositions, List of Compositions, Other Writings, Recordings, Roads, Bibliography
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