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Leonard Butler: In the Heart of the Garden

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays the second piece from a 1931 suite 'In the Heart of the Garden' by the British composer Leonard Butler (1869-1943).
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More from the British composer Leonard Butler (1869-1943). I know little about him except that he was born in Dorking, studied with Ebenezer Prout, later became a professor of piano at the Guildhall School in London, and died in St. Austell. He seems to gave specialised in liturgical and organ music, but also wrote some picturesque piano suites - rather in the manner of Alfred Mullen and Percy Elliott. He had a real gift for short lively light pieces, even if he was not a particularly original melodist.  The suite is dedicated to a Bexhill piano teacher, Miss E. Bourrie Hamilton.  This piece is headed by a quotation from Tennyson's 'The Poet's Mind': "In the heart of the garden the merry bird chants".

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