George Butterworth

1885–1916 · 20th century · England

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.

• Loveliest of trees, the Cherry now — 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 1
• When I was one and twenty — 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 2
• Look not in my eyes — 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 3
• Think no more, lad — 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 4
• The lads in their hundreds — 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 5
• Is my team ploughing? — 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad · No. 6
• Bredon Hill — Bredon Hill and Other Songs · No. 1
• Oh Fair Enough are Sky and Plain — Bredon Hill and Other Songs · No. 2
• When the Lad for Longing Sighs — Bredon Hill and Other Songs · No. 3
• On the Idle Hill of Summer — Bredon Hill and Other Songs · No. 4
• With Rue my Heart is Laden — Bredon Hill and Other Songs · No. 5
• Love blows as the wind blows — Song