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.
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Blue plaque commemorating Butterworth's childhood home in Driffield Terrace, York
Memorial to George Butterworth at the Pozières Memorial, inscribed:.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}One of "the lads that will die in their glory and never be old"
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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.
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Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1885 to 1916 · aged 31
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