
George Butterworth
✶July 12, 1885
†August 5, 1916
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✶July 12, 1885
†August 5, 1916
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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC 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.
English composer (1885–1916)
Biography from the article George Butterworth on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.