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Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)

English composer and inspector of music in schools. He wrote song cycles including one on A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. He did much to raise the standard of music teaching in British schools.

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The easiest Arthur Somervell on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.

In Summer-time on Bredon C major · 3 min There pass the careless People G major · <1 min Into my Heart an Air that kills E♭ major · 1 min The Street sounds to the Soldiers' Tread E♭ major · 2 min When I was one-and-twenty B major · <1 min The Lads in their hundreds A♭ major · 2 min On the idle hill of Summer B major · 2 min

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