'''George Butterworth''', (1885-1816), [[English]] composer, was a keen collector of folk tunes and used the traditional music of the English countryside as his inspiration. He is well known for his settings (in two “cycles”) of eleven of the poems from [[A.E. Housman]]’s “''A Shropshire Lad''” and two orchestral suites, “''Banks of Green Willow''”, and “''A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody''”. | '''George Butterworth''', (1885-1816), [[English]] composer, was a keen collector of folk tunes and used the traditional music of the English countryside as his inspiration. He is well known for his settings (in two “cycles”) of eleven of the poems from [[A.E. Housman]]’s “''A Shropshire Lad''” and two orchestral suites, “''Banks of Green Willow''”, and “''A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody''”. |