George Butterworth
English composer
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916) was an English composer who was 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. He was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at the Battle of Pozières in the First World War, and died during the Battle of the Somme.
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Works
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- A Shropshire Lad
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs: I. Bredon Hill
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs: II. Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs: III. When the Lad for Longing Sighs
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs: IV. On the Idle Hill of Summer
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs: V. With Rue My Heart Is Laden
- Folk Songs from Sussex
- Folk Songs from Sussex: A Blacksmith Courted Me
- Folk Songs from Sussex: A Brisk Young Sailor Courted Me
- Folk Songs from Sussex: A Lawyer He Went Out One Day
- Folk Songs from Sussex: Come My Own One
- Folk Songs from Sussex: Roving in the Dew
- Folk Songs from Sussex: Seventeen Come Sunday
- Folk Songs from Sussex: Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Folk Songs from Sussex: Tarry Trousers
- Folk Songs from Sussex: The Cuckoo
- Folk Songs from Sussex: The True Lover’s Farewell
- Folk Songs from Sussex: Yonder Stands a Lovely Creature
- Heaven Responds at Bethlehem
- I Fear Thy Kisses
- I Will Make You Brooches
- Love blows as the wind blows
- Love blows as the wind blows: I. In the year that's come and gone
- Love blows as the wind blows: II. Life in her creaking shoes
- Love blows as the wind blows: III. Fill a glass with golden wine
- Love blows as the wind blows: IV. On the way to Kew
- Orchestral Fantasia
- Requiescat
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: I. Loveliest of Trees
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: II. When I was One-and-Twenty
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: III. Look not in my eyes
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: IV. Think no More, Lad
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: V. The Lads in their Hundreds
- Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: VI. Is my Team Ploughing?
- The Banks of Green Willow, Idyll
- Two English Idylls for Small Orchestra
- Two English Idylls for Small Orchestra: No. 1
- Two English Idylls for Small Orchestra: No. 2