Arthur Somervell
British composer and art song writer (1863-1937) · United Kingdom · On the map · Musicians · Died at 73
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.
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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).
