Sheet music by Ivor Gurney
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Ivor Bertie Gurney was an English poet and composer, particularly of songs.
Gurney wrote hundreds of poems and more than 300 songs, as well as instrumental music. He set only a handful of his own poems, the best known being Severn Meadows. His well-known compositions include his Five Elizabethan Songs (or 'The Elizas' as he called them) and the song cycles Ludlow and Teme and The Western Playland, both settings of poetry by A. E. Housman. There is something of Schubert and Schumann, but considerably less of the prevailing folk idiom of the time, in the intensity of his musical language.