George Butterworth
Composer
George Butterworth
1885 - 1916George Sainton Kaye Butterworth 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.
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Song List
This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.
| Bredon Hill (1909) | George Butterworth |
| Folk Songs from Sussex | George Butterworth |
| Is my team ploughing? (1911) | George Butterworth |
| Life in her creaking shoes | George Butterworth |
| Look not in my eyes (1911) | George Butterworth |
| Love Blows as the Wind Blows | George Butterworth |
| Loveliest of trees (1911) | George Butterworth |
| Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain | George Butterworth |
| On Bredon Hill | George Butterworth |
| On the Idle Hill of Summer (1919) | George Butterworth |
| Requiescat | George Butterworth |
| Roving in the Dew | George Butterworth |
| Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911) | George Butterworth |
| The lads in their hundreds (1911) | George Butterworth |
| Think no more, lad (1911) | George Butterworth |
| When I was one-and-twenty (1911) | George Butterworth |
| When the Lad for Longing Sighs | George Butterworth |
| With Rue My Heart Is Laden (1928) | George Butterworth |
