George Butterworth was a composer who noted down more than 450 folk songs, dance tunes and dances, many of them in Sussex. He was a skilled morris dancer, a founder of the English Folk Dance Society and one of Cecil Sharp’s demonstration team. He was killed on the Somme in 1916, and his manuscripts are now kept at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
George Butterworth
Composer and collector of songs, tunes and dances
- Born
- 12 July 1885, Paddington, London
- Died
- 5 August 1916, Pozières, Somme, France
Further reading: Wikipedia · English Folk Dance and Song Society
