GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
George Butterworth’s small catalogue became one of the poignant bodies of English music before World War I. His works draw on folk song, pastoral atmosphere, and the poetry of A. E. Housman. Pieces such as The Banks of Green Willow and A Shropshire Lad place him in the English 20th Century Classical tradition cut short by war.
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