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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (July 12, 1885 - August 5, 1916) was a British composer best known for his settings of A. E. Housman's poems.
Born in London into a musical family who moved to Yorkshire early in his life, Butterworth received his first music lessons from his mother, who was a singer. He began composing at an early age, but his father intended for him to be a solicitor, and he was sent to Eton College, and from there went to Trinity College, Oxford.
It was at Trinity that he became more concentrated on music, for there he met the folk song collector Cecil Sharp and composer and folk song enthusiast, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Butterworth and Vaughan Williams made several trips into the English countryside to collect folk songs, and both their compositions were to be strongly influenced by what they heard. Butterworth was also an expert folk dancer, being particularly fond of Morris dancing.
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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth - Biography with photograph, explanatory notes, details of his life, military service, and music, listening tips, links to related subjects and people, supporting material, and works list.
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Butterworth, George - Brief biography and works list from the Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of Composers.
Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye - Biography with education, Vaughn Williams association, and representative work from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
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George Butterworth (1885-1916) - Catalogue of art songs from recmusic.org includes cycles and individual pieces, all linked to their texts.
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