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Leonard Butler: The Song of the "Tillingbourne"

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a celebration of a local river - the ninth piece from the 1920 collection 'From the Surrey Hills' - 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 Tillingbourne is a river that runs along the south side of Butler's beloved North Downs and joins the River Wey at Guildford.  You can read more about it here: https://tinyurl.com/yaz9tw4l .  My thumbnail shows a detail from "Evening on the Tillinghorne" (1889) by the British artist Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848-1918), who lived as a young man in Shere, through which the river flows.
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