Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, Bt, COM, GCVO (* 2. June 1857 in Broadheath with Worcester; † 23. February 1934 in Worcester) was an English composer.

lives

Edward Elgar was the son of a musi potash dealer and played already early different instruments. After short work with a notary it entered into the paternal business. Only 1879 it took in London Violinunterricht, as a composer was it Autodidact. Elgar became 1882 in Worcester concert master and 1885 as a successor of its father organist at the church pc. George. 1889 he married its Violinschülerin Caroline Alice Robert, pulled after Malvern (Worcestershire) and lived since then as a free lance composer.

Its first Kantaten The BlackKnight (1893) and King Olaf (1896) as well as the Oratorium The Light OF would run (1896) provided for it acknowledgment, but the final break-through as a composer succeeded to Elgar 1899 with its Enigma variations and one year later with the Oratorium The Dream OF Gerontius. The Enigma variations, a large sizedOrchestra work with 14 character variations symbolizes a personal characteristic of a friend in each case in art-full-colored instrumentation and/or. Friend of the composer and attaches 19 to the large tradition of the orchestra variation in the music. Century on.

1904 to the knight struck, became Elgar shortly thereafter professor at the universityof Birmingham. In the years of the 1. World war created Elgar beside patriotic pieces three chamber music works and the elegische cello concert. That remained to a large extent unknown 1910 developed concert for violin and orchestra, its two symphonies (1908 and 1910) as well as its large neoromantische G major Orgelsonate, more singularlyEnglish contribution to virtuosen organ info. NIC.

As its far away most well-known work country OF Hope and Glory on basis of the Pomp and Circumstance March No. is considered. 1. Beside Rule Britannia and God save the Queen/King is it the most well-known British hymn. Among other things it becomes annuallywith the load Night OF the PROMs as well as English national anthem with the Commonwealth Games easily. Because of the large popularity of this work Elgars musical work of future generations, to a large extent to injustice, was limited to its patriotic works.

1920 died Alice Elgar, and the death of itsWoman let Elgars work strength triumph. In addition it came that its composition style was regarded in the twenties as old fashionable. Nevertheless he was appointed 1924 the “master OF the King's music” and ennobled 1931 to the “1st Baronet OF Broadheath”. Again he dedicated himself to the composition, butwhen it died 1934 at cancer, many of its works remained unfinished.

Elgar was a first outstanding English composer since Purcell and one of the most important representatives of the musical late romance. It often all too reduced only as Pomp and Circumstance - composer and representative of a past, imperialSeen, but its best works show epoch a clay/tone setter of remarkable musical feeling wealth. Deserving is also its revival of the kind of the Oratoriums.

1877 it began to play bassoon, as musical directors/conductors of the Worchester amateur Society trained musicians. Under the name “The Sunday volume”or “brothers wind” it formed The out of to the order a Holzbläserquintett with unusual occupation: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and it at the bassoon. It created numerous promenades and “Harmoniemusiken”. Simple and obliging/pleasing customs music for sun-daily performance. It described this music in an interview in“The beach of magazines, 1905, p. 540":Into the early days OF which I have been speaking five OF US established A wind quintet. Incoming goods had two flutes, at oboe, A clarionet, and A bassoon, which read I played for some time, and afterwards relinquished itfor the' cello. There which NO music RK all ton suit our peculiar requirements, as into the ideally wind quintet A horn should find A place and emergency A second flood, so I used ton write the music. Incoming goods met on Sunday afternoons, and itwhich understood thing that on incoming goods should have A new piece each week. The sermons in our church used ton take RK leases helped on hour, and I spent the time composing the thing for the afternoon. It which great experience for ME, as youMay imagine, and the books acres all extant, so some OF that music quietly exists. Incoming goods played occasionally for friends, and I more remember one moonlight night stopping in front OF A house ton of PUT the bassoon more together. I hero it UP ton lake if itwhich straight before tightening it. As I did so, someone rushed out OF the house, grabbed ME by the of arm, and shouted, `It wants five of Schilling if you DO.' He thought I had A gun in my hand.

Its face ziert in the rest of that20-Pound cash note.

it attached

a note with an obviously coded message to Dorabella cipher a letter, which Elgar wrote the Dora penny (* 1877), admired by him. The code well-known as Dorabella cipher could not be cracked until today.

works

• symphonies
  • symphony Nr.1 A flat major op.55 (1908)
  • symphony Nr.2 E flat major op.63 (1911)
  • symphony Nr.3 C-moll op.88 (only sketches, 1932/33)
• concerts
  • Violinkonzert h-moll op.61 (1910)
  • cello concert e-moll op.85 (1919)
  • piano concert op.90 (only sketches, 1909-32)
• further orchestra works
  • The wall OF Youth. 2 Suitenop.1 (1907-08)
  • Three Characteristic Pieces op.10 (1899)
  • Sursum corda op.11 (1894)
  • Froissart. Ouvertüre op.19 (1890)
  • serenade e-moll for strike ago op.20 (1892)
  • imperially March op.32 (1897)
  • Enigma. Variation on A original Theme (Enigma variations) op.36 (1899)
  • Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nr.1-5 op.39 (1901-07)
  • Cockaigne (in London Town). Ouvertüre op.40 (1901)
  • Dream Children op.43 (1902)
  • Introduktion and Allegro for caper quartet and caper orchestra op.47 (1905)
  • into the South (Alassio). Ouvertüre op.50 (1904)
  • Elegy for strike ago op.58 (1909)
  • Coronation March op.65 (1911)
  • Falstaff. Sinfoni study op.68(1913)
  • Sospiri for strike ago, harp and organ op.70 (1914)
  • Polonia. Sinfoni Prelude op.76 (1915)
  • Severn Suite for Blechbläser op.87 (1930)
• chamber music
  • chanson de nuit, chanson de matin op.15 (1897; orchestriert 1899/1901)
  • Etudes of caractéristiques for violin op.24 (1892)
  • Violinsonate e-moll op.82 (1918)
  • caper quartet e-mollop.83 (1918)
  • Klavierquintett A-moll op.84 (1919)
• chamber music for Holzbläser
  • wind Quintets (2 flutes, oboe, Clarinet, bassoon),
  • volume. 1: *Peckham March, Harmony No. 1,
  • Harmony No. 2, Andante con variazioni (Evesham Andante),
  • Harmony No. 3 (roofridge version),
  • Harmony No. 3 (second, unfinished version).
  • Wind Quintets, volume of 2:
  • Promenades 1-3 (No. 2 titled madame Taussauds or Waxworks), Menuette (Glee club), Adagio Cantabile (Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup), Shed 4,
  • Promenades 4-6 (Somniferous, Skip, bright and Tommy).
  • Mixed Quintets (2 flutes, oboe, Clarinet in C, violoncello), volume. 1,
  • Mixed Quintets (2 flutes oboe Clarinet inC, violoncello), volume. 2: Gavotte (Alphonsa Gavotte), Sarabande & Gigue, 5 Intermezzi,
  • Sextet (2 flutes, oboe, Clarinet in C, violin, violoncello),
  • Harmony No. 1, second version (2 flutes, oboe, Clarinet in C, bassoon/cello, with violin part)
  • Promenades 4 & 5, second version (2 flutes,oboe, Clarinet in C, bassoon/cello, with violin voice)
• of piano works
  • Salut d'amour op.12 (1888; 1889 orchestriert)
  • Sonatina (1889; ) Konzertallegro (
  • 1901) in Smyrna
  • (1905) works on 1931
• organ works
  • Eleven Vesper Voluntaries op.14 (1890)
  • Orgelsonate G major op.28 (1895)
• choir works with orchestra
  • The Black Knight. Kantate op.25 (1889-92)
  • TheLight OF would run. Oratorium op.29 (1896)
  • Scenes from the Saga OF King Olaf. Kantate op.30 (1894-96)
  • The banner OF sp George. Ballade op.33 (1895)
  • width unit Deum and Benedictus for choir, organ and orchestra OI. 34 (1897)
  • Caractacus. Kantate op.35 (1897-98)
  • TheDream OF Gerontius. Oratorium op.38 (1899-1900)
  • Coronation desert op.44 (1901-02; ) The Apostles
  • works on 1911. Oratorium op.49 (1902-03)
  • The Kingdom. Oratorium op.51 (1901-06)
  • The music Makers. Desert for alto, choir and orchestra op.69 (1912)
  • The mirror-image-guessed/advised further choir works to OF England op.80 (
• 1915-17)
  • Spanish serenade op.23 (1891; 1892 orchestriert)
  • Two Partsongs op.26 (1894; 1903 orchestriert)
  • From the Bavarian Highlands for choir and piano op.27 (1895; 1896 orchestriert)
  • Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology op.45 (1902)
  • Four Choral Songs op.53 (1907)
  • Two Choral Songs op.71 (1914)
  • Two Choral Songsop.73 (1914)
  • numerous further choirs
• of orchestra songs
  • Sea Pictures for alto and orchestra op.37 (1897-99)
  • song cycle after G. Parker op.59 (1909-10)
• piano songs
  • of 3 songs op.16 (1885-94)
  • of 2 songs op.31 (1895-1900)
  • of 2 songs op.41 (1901-02)
  • of 2 songs op.60 (1909-10; 1912 orchestriert)
  • numerous further songs
• of stage works
  • Grania andDiarmid. Play music op.42 (1901)
  • The Crown OF India. Imperially masque op.66 (1911-12)
  • The Starlight express. Play music op.78 (1915)
  • The Sanguine fan. Ballet op.81 (1917)
  • Arthur. Play music (1923)
  • Beau Brummel. Play music (1928)
  • The Spanish lady. Opera op.89 (unfinished)
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literature

• Simon Mundy: Elgar. His would run and of Time. Midas Books, Speldhurst 1980

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