James Butt (1929-2003) was an English composer of classical music. Combining careers as composer, pianist, publisher, James Henry Baseden Butt was born in Middlesex in 1929 and educated at Kidstones School in Yorkshire before studying composition from 1944 onwards with Dr. Erwin Stein, Benjamin Britten and Matyas Seiber, as well as studying pianoforte with Franz Osborne.
