George Butterworth has been played on NTS shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, with Ballade In A Minor, Op. 33 first played on 7 May 2019.

George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885-1916) was an English composer, best known for his settings of A.E. Housman's poems.

Born on 12th July 1885, he studied at Trinity College, Oxford, with fellow composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, going on to become a music critic for The Times while composing and teaching at Radley College, a public school in Oxfordshire. Between 1911 and 1912, he composed two of the most enduring cycles of British song: Bredon Hill and Other Songs and…