TY - BOOK ID - 138941808 TI - Whom the gods love : the life and music of George Butterworth AU - Barlow, Michael. AU - Handley, Vernon. PY - 1997 SN - 0907689426 0907689434 PB - London Toccata Press DB - UniCat KW - Composers KW - Butterworth, George, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138941808 AB - This is the first full-length study of the life and music of the composer George Butterworth (1885-1916), whose career was cut short by a sniper's bullet at the Somme. He was perhaps the finest of the many outstanding musical talents whose lives were claimed by the First World War. The music Butterworth managed to compose in the short time he had showed an exceptional talent, and his name is kept alive by the popularity of his orchestral tone-poems, such as The Banks of Green Willow and A Shropshire Lad, and his songs. ER -