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	Composer Page - Sir Edward Elgar
		Elgar: Organ Sonata in G major Op 28 - Presto (comodo) [7'13]
		Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82 - Allegro [8'06]
		Their texts allow Elgar to explore a wide range of choral and organ effects in the service of some vividly graphic word-painting, which Westminster Abbey Choir bring to life with obvious relish' (The Daily Telegraph)
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	The Symphony - Edward Elgar
		Edward Elgar was born in Broadheath, Worcester, on 2nd June 1857.
		Elgar's Cockaigne (In London Town) Overture was successfully premiered in 1901, and in that year, his status as the quintessential English composer was cemented with the composition of two Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
		Elgar's style is a synthesis of European influences, particularly Brahmsian structure and counterpoint, and Wagnerian harmony, with a uniquely English nobility and grace.
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	Edward Elgar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward William Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath outside Worcester, Worcestershire, to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.
		Elgar's Symphony No. 1 (1908) was given one hundred performances in its first year, the violin concerto (1910) was commissioned by the world-renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler, and in 1911, the year of the completion of his Symphony No. 2, he had the Order of Merit bestowed upon him.
		Elgar's sketches for a piano concerto dating from 1913 were elaborated by the composer Robert Walker and first performed in August 1997 by the pianist David Owen Norris.
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	Edward Elgar
		Edward William Elgar (June 2, 1857 - February 23, 1934), English composer, was born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.
		Shortly after its composition, Elgar was asked to set words by A C Benson[?] as a Coronation Ode to mark the coronation of King Edward VII.
		This indicates that Alice Elgar was the main influence behind his achievements, typifying her as a Victorian Woman, achieving her ambition through the man of her choice.
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	Sir Edward Elgar
		Sir Edward Elgar was born in Worcester in 1857.
		But Elgar himself was a good violinist, and it may well be that he would have played this tune through to himself on the violin, before adding a piano part and sending it off to his publishers for their consideration.
		Those who knew Elgar at this time have written that he was much taken with the surroundings, and would walk in the woods every day; they also suggest that the woodlands influenced his music, and in the Sonata's central Romance (Andante) it is not at all fanciful to sense an echo of those tranquil surroundings.
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	Composers --- Edward Elgar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward William Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath outside Worcester, Worcestershire, to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.
		Elgar's Symphony No. 1 (1908) was given one hundred performances in its first year, the violin concerto (1910) was commissioned by the world-renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler, and in 1911, the year of the completion of his Symphony No. 2, he had the Order of Merit bestowed upon him.
		Elgar's sketches for his third symphony were elaborated in the 1990s by the composer Anthony Payne, who has also subsequently produced a performing version of the sketches for a sixth Pomp and Circumstance march, due to be premiered at the Proms in August 2006.
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	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography: Edward Elgar
		Edward Elgar was the son of a piano tuner from Dover, who arrived in the cathedral city of Worcester in 1841, and married his landlord's daughter.
		Alice Elgar was convinced of her husband's genius and gave him every encouragement in his composing, even undertaking the laborious task of drawing the bar lines on his score paper — they could not afford to buy the real thing.
		Elgar's five ‘Pomp and Circumstance' marches form a set, and have the same opus number, but in fact were written over a total period of three decades.
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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Elgar was capable of expressing dominant and patriotic themes in his music.
		Elgar wrote a number of pieces for violin and piano during the earlier part of his life.
		Elgar wrote relatively little for the piano, but his "Salut d'Amour", originally written with a German title for his wife, has proved popular both in its original form and in a multitude of arrangements.
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	Sir Edward Elgar: English Composer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward inherited his love of literature from his mother Ann, who was a refined and well read English woman from a yeoman family of Herfordshire.
		Later in Edward's career he would address that very subject and be outspoken about his belief that music should be brought to those he felt needed it the most, the ones that couldn't afford it.
		Edward abandoned his idea of becoming a solo-violinist and from 1885 to1889 he succeeded his father as the organist for the St. George's Church in Worcester.
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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Elgar was capable of expressing dominant and patriotic themes in his music.
		Elgar wrote a number of pieces for violin and piano during the earlier part of his life.
		Elgar wrote relatively little for the piano, but his "Salut d'Amour", originally written with a German title for his wife, has proved popular both in its original form and in a multitude of arrangements.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/elgar.html (394 words)

	Sir Edward Elgar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward Elgar (1857-1934) was the greatest Catholic composer at the turn of the nineteenth century and the greatest English composer since Purcell some two hundred year earlier.
		Elgar's mother, Ann, was a convert to Catholicism and, despite her husband's objections, raised her children in the faith.
		Elgar recovered, and went on to open his heart in many other masterpieces, including two oratorios based on the New Testament: The Kingdom, and The Apostles.
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	Sir Edward Elgar - Picture and Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		English composer Sir Edward Elgar became well known in 1899 when Hungarian conductor Hans Richter performed Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme in London.
		Elgar also wrote the five popular Pomp and Circumstance marches.
		Heard here is an excerpt from the first of these marches, which is often played during graduation ceremonies.
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	Elgar - A Short Biography
		Elgar was born on 2nd June 1857 at Broadheath, a village some three miles from the small city of Worcester in the English West Midlands.
		She married Edward in opposition to her aunts and cousins (her mother had died in 1887) who considered that in marrying the son of a mere tradesman, a music teacher without prospects, she was marrying beneath herself.
		Elgar dedicated the symphony to the memory of King Edward VII, who had recently died but the composition is much more than an expression of national mourning for a much loved monarch.
	www.elgar.org /2english.htm (1998 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Sir Edward Elgar
		Elgar's Sérénade mauresque in a concert in 1883.
		Elgar was knighted in 1904 at age 47, and in 1911 became a member of the OM.
		Elgar's greatness as a composer lies in his ability to combine nobility and spirituality of utterance with a popular style.
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	ELGAR ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory
		Elgar was 35 years old when he wrote this work and still somewhat unknown in his part of rural England.
		Elgar was a private man by nature and when success came late in his life he was surprised to learn he was a national hero.
		Elgar conducted the first recording of the work with violinist Yehudi Menuhin who was 15 years old.
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	In His Temple - the music of Sir Edward Elgar - The Choir and Organ of St Paul’s, Rock Creek Parish, Washington DC USA
		Elgar’s sacred choral music possesses the same innate qualities so admired today in his orchestral music, namely an unerring sense for musical development and drama, allied to a glorious ear for melody.
		Elgar arranged it as a setting of Ave verum corpus for publication in 1902, as a setting alternating soprano or tenor solos with choral verses.
		Elgar’s settings date from the 1880s, when he was struggling to make a living as a provincial musician in his native Worcester and playing the organ in St George’s Roman Catholic Church.
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	Edward Elgar: Biography - Classic Cat
		Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 ;– 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer.
		Elgar's recordings were released on 78-rpm discs by both HMV and RCA Victor.
		Elgar's sketches for his third symphony were elaborated in the 1990s by the composer Anthony Payne, who has also subsequently produced a performing version of the sketches for a sixth Pomp and Circumstance march, premiered at the Proms in August 2006.
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	Elgar, Sir Edward
		In 1879 he had a few violin lessons in London, but as a composer Elgar was self-taught.
		Elgar's compositions, especially his oratorios and other choral music and his orchestral works, won him growing success and prestige.
		An authoritative conductor of his own music, Elgar was the first major composer to record his works systematically for the phonograph.
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	Edward Elgar biography - 8notes.com
		Sir Edward William Elgar, Bt OM GCVO (June 2, 1857 –; February 23, 1934) was a British composer, born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.
		Edward Elgar: Salut D'Amour Composed by Edward Elgar (1857-1934), edited by Donald Burrows.
		By Edward Elgar and arranged by Julian Lloyd Webber.
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	Sir Edward Elgar
		Elgar's principal works of a programmatic nature are the overture Cockaigne, or In London Town (1901), and the "symphonic study" Falstaff (1913).
		A life-size bronze statue of Sir Edward Elgar, in the centre of Malvern, was unveiled by the Duke of York last June (2000) just a couple of weeks before a visit to Malvern by Jeffrey Titford - leader of the UK Independence Party.
		King Edward VII was impressed, and suggested that if only it had words, it would go round the British Empire (he actually said 'the world', though they amounted to pretty much the same thing in 1901).
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	Edward Elgar
		Edward Elgar was born at Lower Broadheath, on 2nd June 1857, within sight of the Malvern Hills and the tower of Worcester Cathedral, features that meant much to him throughout his creative life.
		Elgar had raised oratorio to a new level of achievement; but a projected sequel, The Last Judgement, was never written.
		Throughout his career, Elgar produced a notable series of partsongs, pieces that show him working with equal success on a small scale and writing as sensitively for voices as he did for instruments.
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	Sir Edward Elgar
		Edward William Elgar Was Born On 2nd June 1857 In A Small Cottage In The Village Of Lower Broardheath Near Worcester England.
		Elgar Was The Forth Child Born To Ann and William Elgar, A Piano Tuner and Music Dealer.
		Elgar Died On The 23 Rd February 1934 and Was Buried Beside His Wife Alice At Little Malvern A Close Friend Wrote At The Time " Eulogies Pour In On Every Side, Tributes To Elgars Genius, Life and Character, But He Has Written His Own Biography As No Other Man Can Ever Do.
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	Edward Elgar
		Edward Elgar was born at Lower Broadheath, on 2nd June 1857, within sight of the Malvern Hills and the tower of Worcester Cathedral, features that meant much to him throughout his creative life.
		Elgar had raised oratorio to a new level of achievement; but a projected sequel, The Last Judgement, was never written.
		Throughout his career, Elgar produced a notable series of partsongs, pieces that show him working with equal success on a small scale and writing as sensitively for voices as he did for instruments.
	www.schirmer.com /Default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&composerId_2872=419 (864 words)

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