What is George Butterworth?
{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = George Butterworth | honorific_suffix = [[Military Cross|MC]] | birth_name = George Sainton Kaye Butterworth | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|07|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paddington]], London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|08|05|1885|07|12|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Pozières]], [[Somme|The Somme]], France | death_cause = Shot by [[sniper]] in the [[Battle of the Somme]] | resting_place = Unknown | nationality = [[England|English]] | education = {{Unbulleted list| [[Aysgarth School]] | [[Eton College]] }} | alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Oxford]] | occupation = [[Composer]], schoolmaster, music critic, professional [[morris dancer]], soldier | parents = Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth, general manager, [[North East railway line|North-East Railway Company]] }} '''George Butterworth''' (born [[London]], 12 July 1885; died Pozières, [[France]], 5 August 1916) was an [[England|English]] [[composer]]. He was killed while fighting in [[World War I]]. He is best known for a group of [[song]]s which are settings of [[poem]]s by [[A. E. Housman]]. == Early years == Butterworth was born in [[London]]. His father was a [[solicitor]] who later became the general manager of the North Eastern Railway. The family moved to [[Yorkshire]] soon after George’s birth. He had his first [[music]] lessons from his mother, who was a singer, He soon started to compose music. His father wanted him to be a solicitor and so he sent his son to [[Eton College]]. From there he went to Trinity College, [[Oxford]]. At Oxford he became more and more involved with music, especially after 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. Both of them were influenced by English folk songs when they were composing. Butterworth was also a very good [[folk dance]]r. He was particularly fond of [[Morris da