Arthur Somervell

1863–1937 · Late Romantic · England

Sir Arthur Somervell was an English composer and educationalist. After Hubert Parry, he was one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s–1900s. According to Michael Hurd, his most important work is found in the five song cycles, particularly his settings of Tennyson in Maud (1898) and Housman in A Shropshire Lad (1904).

• Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry now — A Shropshire Lad · No. 1
• The Lads in their hundreds — A Shropshire Lad · No. 10
• When I was one-and-twenty — A Shropshire Lad · No. 2
• There pass the careless People — A Shropshire Lad · No. 3
• In Summer-time on Bredon — A Shropshire Lad · No. 4
• The Street sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread — A Shropshire Lad · No. 5
• On the idle hill of Summer — A Shropshire Lad · No. 6
• White in the moon the long road lies — A Shropshire Lad · No. 7
• Think no more, Lad, laugh, be jolly — A Shropshire Lad · No. 8
• Into my Heart an Air that kills — A Shropshire Lad · No. 9