Arthur Butterworth

British composer Arthur Butterworth completed his 100th opus, a string quartet, in time for his 75th birthday in 1997. Despite his large output based on diverse subjects such as poetry, landscapes, Viking archaeology, and vintage trains and clocks, he remains little-known outside England; his major breakthrough internationally has been in brass band music. An extremely small discography has not helped his career, nor has sometimes being confused with the composer George Butterworth, to whom he is no relation. He began his musical life as a brass player with the Besses o' the ...