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William Denis Browne |
William Denis Browne (November 3 1888 - June 4 1915) was a British composer and poet of the early twentieth century.
Of Irish descent, Browne's family hailed from Leamington Spa.
He died, aged 26, in the Third Battle of Krithia at Gallipoli while attacking the Turkish trenches.
A small selection of his surviving songs have been recorded, such as Diaphenia, performed by the English tenor Heddle Nash. He is mostly remembered for his friendship with poet Rupert Brooke, from their years together at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge. He set several of Brooke's poems to music, although these settings have not survived. Fellow soldier and poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson dedicated a poem to Browne in his 1916 volume of poems entitled Battle, and other Poems.
Sources
- Marsh, Edward, Rupert Brooke: A Memoir (published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922).
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