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Leonard Butler: Ploughman's Song

1,340 views · Published 3 September 2016 · 2:44 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a country-inspired piece from 1919 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, but this is one of his best slower pieces.  It seems to be a stand-alone piece, and his headed by a quotation from Gray's famous 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard': "The plowman homeward plods his weary way".

My thumbnail shows an 18th century illustration of the Gray passage by Francis Wheatley (source: https://tinyurl.com/yxhzyewm ).
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