Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar (9 October 1848 – 7 April 1920) was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar. Caroline...
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Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ˈɛlɡɑːr/ ; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered...
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Enigma Variations (redirect from Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (Elgar))
include Elgar's wife Alice, his friend and publisher Augustus J. Jaeger and Elgar himself. In a programme note for a performance in 1911 Elgar wrote: This...
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Caroline Alice Elgar. In July 1897 the Penny family invited Edward and Alice Elgar to stay at the Wolverhampton Rectory for a few days. Edward Elgar was a...
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is clear in a letter to friend and close correspondent Alice Stuart-Wortley, in which Elgar states: I have written out my soul in the concerto, Symphony...
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Leicester – they were married three years before Edward Elgar and Alice A friend of Elgar's, the Very Rev. Canon Charles Vincent Dolman, O.S.B. was the...
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caught my eye and a name immediately sprang to my mind. The Lady [i.e. Alice Elgar] came and stood by me, saw what I was looking at, and translated the...
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Look up Elgar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Edward Elgar (1857–1934) was an English romantic composer. Elgar may also refer to: Alice Elgar (1848–1920)...
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Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last major completed work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the...
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Sea Pictures (category Song cycles by Edward Elgar)
Roden Noel (approximately 4 minutes) "In Haven (Capri)" by Caroline Alice Elgar, the composer's wife (under 2 minutes) "Sabbath Morning at Sea" by Elizabeth...
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exhibited under the name Alice Roberts Alice Roberts (actress) (1906–1985), Belgian actress Caroline Alice Elgar (1848–1920), born C. Alice Roberts, wife of the...
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Salut d'Amour (category Compositions by Edward Elgar)
Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano. Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was romantically involved with Caroline Alice Roberts...
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for contralto or mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was dedicated to "my friend Nicholas Kilburn". It was first performed...
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Pomp and Circumstance Marches (category Compositions by Edward Elgar)
Way' Elgar set Alice's words to the trio theme of Pomp and Circumstance No. 4, to celebrate the thoroughfare recently opened in London." Elgar Foundation...
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List of music museums Elgar, and his wife, Alice, are buried in the nearby Church of St Wulstan at Little Malvern. "Sir Edward Elgar". National Trust. Retrieved...
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The Dream of Gerontius (category Oratorios by Edward Elgar)
38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey...
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Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 in A♭ major, Op. 55 is one of his two completed symphonies. The first performance was given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted...
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copies." Ward 1926, p. 330. Elgar, Caroline Alice. "Diary". Papers of Sir Edward Elgar, Lady Caroline Alice Elgar and Carice Elgar Blake, ID: EE/1/2/16. University...
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French soprano Caroline Duprez (1832–1875), French soprano Caroline Alice Elgar (1848–1920), English writer and poet Caroline Leigh Gascoigne (1813–1883)...
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Percy M. Young (category Elgar scholars)
(1947), Elgar (five books: 1955–1978), Vaughan Williams (1953), Schumann (1957), Kodály (1964), Sir Arthur Sullivan (1971), Alice, Lady, Elgar (1978),...
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Cockaigne (In London Town) (category Overtures by Edward Elgar)
Edward Elgar in 1900–1901. The success of the Enigma Variations in 1899 was followed by the initial failure of The Dream of Gerontius, which caused Elgar to...
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49, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed on 14 October 1903 at the Birmingham Music Festival...
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In Haven (category Songs by Edward Elgar)
by Caroline Alice Elgar, probably best known in its musical setting as the second (and shortest) song composed by her husband Edward Elgar for his song-cycle...
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Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47, was composed in 1905 for performance in an all-Elgar concert by the newly formed London...
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The Sanguine Fan (category Compositions by Edward Elgar)
staged in the theatre by the London Festival Ballet. Elgar's close friend and confidante, Alice Stuart-Wortley (Lady Stuart of Wortley) asked him to compose...
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Elgar is a British drama documentary made in 1962 by the British director Ken Russell for BBC Television's Monitor series. It dramatised in vigorous style...
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A4200 road (section 1909 Edward Elgar song)
composer Edward Elgar, named The King's Way, celebrates the opening of Kingsway. The words are written by his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar. The song was...
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Alice in Wonderland is a 1966 BBC television play, shot on film, based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was adapted,...
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Avril Elgar Williams (1 April 1932 – 17 September 2021) was an English stage, radio and television actress. Avril Elgar Williams was born on 1 April 1932...
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in C minor, Op. 68, is an orchestral work by the English composer Edward Elgar. Though not so designated by the composer, it is a symphonic poem in the...
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