List of compositions by Edward Elgar

The table below shows all known compositions by Edward Elgar.

Compositions

Works are shown in opus number order (Opp. 1–90), followed by those without opus number, in date order (1867–1933). The list includes incomplete and unpublished works.

Op.YearTitleGenreNotesDedicationWordsPub.
11878Romancechamberviolin and piano, also with orchestraOswin Grainger[1]Schott
1a1907The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1orchestralfrom music written 1867–71
1. Overture
2. Serenade
3. Minuet (Old Style)
4. Sun Dance
5. Fairy Pipers
6. Slumber Scene
7. Fairies and Giants
C. Lee Williams[2]Novello
1b1908The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 2orchestralfrom music written 1867–71
1. March
2. The Little Bells (Scherzino)
3. Moths and Butterflies (Dance)
4. Fountain Dance
5. The Tame Bear
6. The Wild Bears
Hubert A. Leicester[3]Novello
21887Three motets /
anthems
churchchoir and organ, pub. 1902-07
1. "Ave verum corpus"/"Jesu, Word of God Incarnate"
2. "Ave Maria"/"Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory"
3. "Ave Maris Stella"/"Jesu, Meek and Lowly"
Novello
2.11902"Ave verum corpus" /
"Jesu, Word of God Incarnate"
churchmotet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887
'In Memoriam – W. A. obit 27 January 1887.' (William Allen)[4]Eucharistic HymnNovello
2.21907"Ave Maria" /
"Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory"
churchmotet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887
Mrs Hubert A. Leicester[5]Eucharistic HymnNovello
2.31907"Ave Maris Stella" /
"Jesu, Meek and Lowly"
churchmotet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887
Rev. Canon Dolman, O.S.B., Hereford [6]Eucharistic HymnNovello
31912Cantique[7]keyboardorgan, originally a wind quintet Andante arioso from Harmony Music No. 6 (1879), arr. organ and for orchestraHugh BlairNovello
41883Three pieceschamberviolin and piano
1. Idylle (Esquisse Façile)
2. Pastourelle
3. Virelai
4.11883Idylle (Esquisse Façile)chamberviolin and pianoE. E., Inverness[8]Beare,
Ashdown
4.21883Pastourellechamberviolin and pianoMiss Hilda Fitton, Malvern[9]Swan,
Novello
4.31883Virelaichamberviolin and pianoFrank W. Webb[10]Swan,
Novello
51903Two songs[11]songvoice and piano
1. "A War Song"
2. unknown
5.11903"A War Song"songvoice and piano, originally "A Soldier’s Song" (1884)F. G. P., Worcester
(Frederick G. Pedley)[12]
C. Flavell Hayward[13]Boosey
5.21903unknownsongvoice and piano
61878–81Wind Quintetschamberwind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello[14]
see Op. 6.1 — Op. 6.6[15]
1. Six Promenades
2. Harmony Music, numbered 1 to 7
3. Five Intermezzos
4. Four Dances
5. Andante con Variazioni "Evesham Andante"
6. Adagio Cantabile "Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup"
pub. posth., first perf. 1934,
see also Peckham March (1877) for the same group
6.11878Six Promenadeschamberwind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1. Moderato e molto maestoso
2. Moderato ”Madame Taussaud's"[sic][16]
3. Presto
4. Andante "Somniferous"
5. Allegro molto
6. Allegro Maestoso "Hell and Tommy"
Belwin
6.21878–81Harmony MusicchamberNos. 1-6 for wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon/cello, No.7 a sextet, having also a part for violin.[17]
1. Allegro Molto (1878)
2. Allegro non tanto (1878)
3. (Allegro) (1878, incomplete)
4. Allegro molto "The Farm Yard" (1879)
5. Allegro moderato "The Mission"; Menuetto and Trio; Andante "Noah's Ark"; Finale (Allegro) (1879)
6. Allegro Molto; Andante arioso[18] (1879)
7. Allegro; Scherzo (1881)
Frank Exton (No. 1)[19]
W. B. Leicester (2)[20]
Frank Elgar (3)[21]
Belwin
6.31879Five Intermezzoschamberwind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1. Allegro moderato "The Farmyard"
2. Adagio Solenne
3. Allegretto "Nancy"
4. Andante con moto
5. Allegretto
Belwin
6.41879Four Danceschamberwind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1. Menuetto
2. Gavotte "The Alphonsa"[22]
3. Sarabande – Largo[23]
4. Gigue – Allegro
Belwin
6.51879Andante con Variazione "Evesham Andante"chamberwind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello'H. A. L.' (Hubert Leicester)[3]
6.61879Adagio Cantabile "Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup"chamberwind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/celloBelwin
71884SevillañaorchestralW. C. StockleyTuckwood,
Ascherberg
81888Quartetchamberstring quartet, destroyed[24]
91884?Violin Sonatachamberviolin and piano, destroyed
101899Three Characteristic Piecesorchestral1. Mazurka
2. Sérénade Mauresque
3. Contrasts: The Gavotte A.D. 1700 and 1900
Lady Mary Lygon[25]Novello
10.11899MazurkaorchestralLady Mary Lygon[25]Novello
10.21899Sérénade MauresqueorchestralLady Mary Lygon[25]Novello
10.31899Contrasts: The Gavotte A.D. 1700 and 1900orchestralLady Mary Lygon[25]Novello
111894Sursum corda (Élévation)orchestralstrings, brass, timpani and organH. Dyke Acland, Malvern[26]Schott
121888Salut d'Amour (Liebesgruss)chamberviolin and piano
also for piano, orchestra and numerous arrangements
à Carice (C. Alice Elgar)Schott
131889–90Two pieceschamberviolin and piano
1. Mot d'Amour (1889)
2. Bizarrerie (1890)
13.11889Mot d'Amourchamberviolin and piano
first pub. as Liebesahnung, companion piece to Liebesgruss
Alice (C. Alice Elgar)Ascherberg
13.21890Bizarreriechamberviolin and pianoFred Ward[27]Ascherberg
141890Vesper Voluntarieskeyboardorgan
Introduction,
1. Andante,
2. Allegro,
3. Andantino (from Quartet in D, 1888),
4. Allegro piacevole,
5. Poco lento,
6. Moderato,
7. Allegretto pensoso,
8. Poco allegro, Coda
Mrs W. A. Raikes[28]Ascherberg
151897–99Two pieceschamberviolin and piano
1. Chanson de Nuit
2. Chanson de Matin
15.11897Chanson de Nuitchamberviolin and piano,
also orchestra (1899), numerous arrangements
F. Ehrke, M.D.[29]Novello
15.21899Chanson de Matinchamberviolin and piano,
also orchestra (1901), numerous arrangements
Novello
161885–94Three songssongvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
1. "The Shepherd's Song" (1892)
2. "Through the Long Days" (1885)
3. "Rondel" (1894)
16.11892"The Shepherd's Song"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Barry PainTuckwood,
Ascherberg
16.21885"Through the Long Days"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
John HayWeber,
Ascherberg
16.31894"Rondel"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Longfellow,
after Froissart
Ascherberg
171891La Capricieusechamberviolin and pianoFred Ward[30]Breitkopf & Härtel
181890Three part-songspart-songSATB unacc.
1. "O Happy Eyes"
2. "Love"
3. "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land"
Novello
18.11890"O Happy Eyes"part-songSATB unacc.C. Alice ElgarNovello
18.21890"Love"part-songSATB unacc.C. A. E. (C. Alice Elgar)Arthur MaquarieNovello
18.3[31]1890"My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land"part-songSATB unacc.Rev. J. Hampton[32]Andrew LangNovello
191890Froissartorchestralconcert overtureNovello
201888–92Serenadeorchestralstring orchestra,
revised version of Three Pieces for string orchestra
1. Allegro piacevole
2. Larghetto
3. Allegretto
W. H. Whinfield[33]Breitkopf & Härtel
211899Minuetorchestraloriginally for piano 1897Paul Kilburn[34]Joseph Williams
221892Very Melodious Exercises in the First Positionchamberviolin and pianoMay Grafton[35]Chanot,
Laudy
231892"Spanish Serenade"part-song"Stars of the Summer Night".
SATB acc. 2 violins and piano,
also acc. orchestra 1893
LongfellowNovello
241892Études caractéristiqueschamberviolin soloAdolphe PollitzerChanot
251889–92The Black Knightchoralsymphony/cantata for chorus and orchestra, poem by Uhland, tr. LongfellowHugh BlairLongfellowNovello
261894Two part-songspart-songSSA acc. 2 violins and piano
1. "The Snow"
2. "Fly, Singing Bird"
Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern[36]C. Alice ElgarNovello
26.11894"The Snow"part-songSSA acc. 2 violins and piano,
also other vocal arrangements and with orchestra
Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern[36]C. Alice ElgarNovello
26.21894"Fly, Singing Bird"part-songSSA acc. 2 violins and piano,
also other vocal arrangements and with orchestra
Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern[36]C. Alice ElgarNovello
271895–96From the Bavarian Highlandschoralchoral-songs SATB and orchestra
1. "The Dance" (Sonnenbichl)
2. "False Love" (Wamberg)
3. "Lullaby" (In Hammersbach)
4. "Aspiration" (Bei Sankt Anton)
5. "On the Alm" 'True Love'(Hoch Alp)
6. "The Marksmen (Bei Murnau)"
Nos. 1, 3 and 6 arr. for orchestra as Three Bavarian Dances
Mr and Mrs Henry Slingsby Bethell, Garmisch, Bavaria[37]C. Alice Elgar,
adapted from Bavarian folksongs
Joseph Williams
271898Three Bavarian Dancesorchestralsongs from From the Bavarian Highlands arranged for orchestra
1. "The Dance" (Sonnenbichl)
2. "Lullaby" (In Hammersbach)
3. "The Marksmen (Bei Murnau)"
also for piano solo, and violin and piano
Joseph Williams
281898Organ Sonata in GkeyboardorganDr. C. Swinnerton HeapBreitkopf
291896The Light of Lifechoral(Lux Christi)
soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
Dr. C. Swinnerton HeapRev. E. Capel-Cure,
adapted from the Scriptures
Novello
301896Scenes from The Saga of King Olafchoralcantata for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
incl. part-song "As torrents in summer" pub. separately
Longfellow
and Harry Arbuthnot Acworth
Novello
311900Two songssongvoice and piano
1. "After"
2. "A Song of Flight"
31.11900"After"songvoice and pianoPhilip Bourke MarstonBoosey
31.21900"A Song of Flight"songvoice and pianoChristina RossettiBoosey
321897Imperial Marchorchestralfor the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen's accession, also arr. piano for H.M. Queen VictoriaNovello
331897The Banner of St. Georgechoralballad for chorus and orchestraShapcott WensleyNovello
341897Te Deum and Benedictuschurchchoir and organHymn
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
Novello
351897–98Caractacuschoralcantata for soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soloists, chorus and orchestraH.M. Queen VictoriaH. A. AcworthNovello
361899Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)orchestralTheme Enigma (andante)
I. C.A.E. (andante)
II. H.D.S.-P. (allegro)
III. R.B.T. (allegretto)
IV. W.M.B. (allegro di molto)
V. R.P.A. (moderato)
VI. Ysobel (andantino)
VII. Troyte (presto)
VIII. W.N. (allegretto)
IX. Nimrod (adagio)
X. Intermezzo, Dorabella (allegretto)
XI. G.R.S. (allegro di molto)
XII. B.G.N. (andante)
XIII. Romanza "***" (moderato)
Finale E.D.U. (allegro)
'To my friends pictured within':
Caroline Alice Elgar
Hew David Steuart-Powell
Robert Baxter Townshend
William Meath Baker
Richard Penrose Arnold
Isabel Fitton
Arthur Troyte Griffith
Winifred Norbury
August Jaeger
Dora Penny
George Robertson Sinclair
Basil George Nevinson
Lady Mary Lygon
Edward Elgar
Novello
371897–99Sea Picturessongsong-cycle for contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
1. "Sea-Slumber Song"
2. "In Haven (Capri)"
3. "Sabbath Morning at Sea"
4. "Where Corals Lie"
5. "The Swimmer"
Boosey
37.11899"Sea-Slumber Song"songfrom Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Hon. Roden NoelBoosey
37.21899"In Haven (Capri)"songfrom Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
pub. 1897 as Love alone will stay
C. Alice ElgarBoosey
37.31899"Sabbath Morning at Sea"songfrom Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningBoosey
37.41899"Where Corals Lie"songfrom Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Richard GarnettBoosey
37.51899"The Swimmer"songfrom Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Adam Lindsay GordonBoosey
381899–1900The Dream of Gerontiuschoralfor mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestraA.M.D.G.Cardinal NewmanNovello
391901–30Pomp and Circumstance Marchesorchestral1. in D (1901)
2. in A minor (1901)
3. in C minor (1904)
4. in G (1907)
5. in C (1930)
6. sketches[38]
39.11901Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in Dorchestralthe trio contains the tune known as Land of Hope and GloryA. E. Rodewald and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral SocietyBoosey
39.21901Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2 in A minororchestralGranville BantockBoosey
39.31904Pomp and Circumstance March No. 3 in C minororchestralIvor AtkinsBoosey
39.41907Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in Gorchestralin 1940 set to words by A. P. Herbert as Song of LibertyG. R. SinclairBoosey
39.51930Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in CorchestralDr. Percy C. Hull, HerefordBoosey
39.61930Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6 in G minororchestral"elaborated" from sketches by Anthony Payne, 2006Boosey
401900–01Cockaigne (In London Town)orchestralconcert-overture'My friends, the Members of British Orchestras'Boosey
411901Two songssong1. "In the Dawn"
2. "Speak, Music!"
41.11901"In the Dawn"songvoice and pianoA. C. BensonBoosey
41.21901"Speak, Music!"songvoice and pianoMrs E. Speyer, Ridghurst[39]A. C. BensonBoosey
421901Grania and Diarmidincidentalmusic for a play by George Moore and W. B. Yeats,
for orchestra and contralto soloist
1. Incidental Music and Funeral March
2. Song, "There are seven that pull the thread"
Henry J. WoodNovello
42.11901Incidental Music and Funeral Marchincidentalmusic for orchestra,
for a play Grania and Diarmid by George Moore and W. B. Yeats
Henry J. WoodNovello
42.21901"There are seven that pull the thread"songfor contralto soloist and orchestra,
for a play Grania and Diarmid by George Moore and W. B. Yeats
Henry J. WoodW. B. YeatsNovello
431902Dream ChildrenorchestralEnfants d'un Rêve
two pieces for small orchestra,
after Charles Lamb,
also for piano
1. Andante
2. Allegretto piacevole
Joseph Williams,
Schott
441902Coronation Odechoralfor soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus SATB and orchestra
I. "Crown the King", for soloists and chorus
II(a). "The Queen", for chorus
II(b). "Daughter of ancient Kings", for chorus
III. "Britain, ask of thyself", for bass solo and men's chorus
IV (a). "Hark upon the hallowed air", for soprano and tenor soloists
IV(b). "Only let the heart be pure", for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists
V. "Peace, gentle peace", for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists and chorus unaccompanied
VI. Finale "Land of Hope and Glory", for contralto solo, with chorus (separate song 1902)
H.M. King Edward VIIA. C. BensonBoosey
451902Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthologypart-songTTBB,
words tr. from the Greek Anthology
1. "Yea, cast me from height of the mountains"
2. "Whether I find thee"
3. "After many a dusty mile"
4. "It's oh! to be a wild wind"
5. "Feasting I watch"
Sir Walter ParrattNovello
45.11902"Yea, cast me from height of the mountains"part-songTTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.)Sir Walter ParrattAlma StrettellNovello
45.21902"Whether I find thee"part-songTTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.)Sir Walter ParrattAndrew LangNovello
45.31902"After many a dusty mile"part-songTTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.)Sir Walter ParrattEdmund GosseNovello
45.41902"It's oh! to be a wild wind"part-songTTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.)Sir Walter ParrattWilliam M. HardingeNovello
45.51902"Feasting I watch"part-songTTBB, words tr. from poem by Marcus ArgentariusSir Walter ParrattRichard GarnettNovello
461901Concert Allegro[40]concertantefor piano, orchestra part possibly addedWritten for Fanny Davies?
471904–05Introduction and Allegroorchestralfor strings (quartet and orchestra)Prof. S. S. Sanford,
Yale University
Novello
481908"Pleading"songvoice and piano,
pub. as Op. 48, No. 1, but no other Op. 48 works exist
Lady Maud Warrender[41]Arthur L. Salmon[42]Novello
481908Pleadingorchestralarrangement with flute, oboe, clarinet, cornet, or violin soloElgar Complete Works, Vol. 23
491902–03The Apostleschoraloratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor and three bass soloists, chorus and orchestra,
compiled from the Scriptures by the composer
A.M.D.G.The Holy ScripturesNovello
501903–04In the South (Alassio)orchestralconcert-overtureLeo F. SchusterNovello
511901–06The Kingdomchoraloratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra,
compiled from the Scriptures by the composer
A.M.D.G.The Holy ScripturesNovello
521907"A Christmas Greeting"part-songcarol for 2 sopranos, male chorus ad lib, 2 violins and pianoDr. G. R. Sinclair and the choristers of Hereford CathedralC. Alice ElgarNovello
531907Four part-songspart-songSATB unacc.
1. "There is sweet Music"
2. "Deep in my Soul"
3. "O Wild West Wind"
4. "Owls (An Epitaph)"
Novello
53.11907"There is sweet Music"part-songpart-song SSAATTBB unacc.Canon Gorton[43]Lord TennysonNovello
53.21907"Deep in my Soul"part-songSATB unacc.Julia H. Worthington[44]Lord ByronNovello
53.31907"O Wild West Wind"part-songSATB unacc.Dr. W. G. McNaught[45]ShelleyNovello
53.41907"Owls (An Epitaph)"part-songSATB unacc.Pietro d'Alba[46]Novello
541907"The Reveille"part-songTTBB unacc.Henry C. Embleton[47]Bret HarteNovello
551907–08Symphony No. 1 in A flatorchestralHans Richter, Mus. Doc.Novello
561909"Angelus (Tuscany)"part-songSATB unacc.Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley (Alice Stuart-Wortley, 'Windflower')[48]adapted from the Tuscan dialectNovello
571909"Go, Song of Mine"part-songSSAATB unacc.Alfred H. Littleton[49]Dante Gabriel Rossetti, tr. from CavalcantiNovello
581909Elegyorchestralstring orchestraRev. R. H. Haddon[50][51]Novello
591910Three songs[52]song1. & 2. not published
3. "Oh, soft was the song"
4. not published
5. "Was it some Golden Star?"
6. "Twilight"
Gilbert Parker
59.31910"Oh, soft was the song"songmezzo-soprano and piano or orchestraGilbert ParkerNovello
59.51910"Was it some Golden Star?"songmezzo-soprano and piano or orchestraGilbert ParkerNovello
59.61910"Twilight"songmezzo-soprano and piano or orchestraGilbert ParkerNovello
601909–10Two songssong1. "The Torch"
2. "The River"
Pietro d'Alba[46]
60.11909"The Torch"songmezzo-soprano and piano or orchestraYvonne[53]Pietro d'Alba[46]Novello
60.21910"The River"songmezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra
'Folk-Song (Eastern Europe) paraphrased by Pietro d'Alba'
Pietro d'Alba[46]Novello
611901–10Violin Concerto in B minorconcertanteviolin and orchestraFritz KreislerNovello
621910Romanceconcertantebassoon (or cello) and orchestraEdwin F. James[54]Novello
631909–11Symphony No. 2 in E flatorchestralIn memory of H.M. King Edward VIINovello
641911"O Hearken Thou"churchCoronation Offertorium "Intende voci orationis meæ", for choir and orchestra, for the Coronation of King George VH.M. King George VPsalm 5Novello
651911Coronation MarchorchestralH.M. King George VNovello
661911–12The Crown of IndiaincidentalImperial Masque for contralto and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
1a. Introduction, 1b. Sacred Measure,
2. Dance of Nautch Girls, 2a. India Greets her Cities,
3. Song: "Hail, Immemorial Ind!",
3a. Entrance of Calcutta, 3b. Entrance of Delhi,
4a. Introduction, 4b. March of the Mogul Emperors,
5. Entrance of "John Company", 5a. Entrance of St George,
6. Song: "The Rule of England",
7. Interlude,
8a. Introduction, 8b. Warrior's Dance,
9. The Cities of Ind,
11. The Crowning of Delhi,
12. "Ave Imperator!"
also Suite from the Crown of India for orchestra
Henry HamiltonEnoch
671912"Great is the Lord"churchanthem, choir SSAATB, bass solo, and organDean of Wells,
J. Armitage Robinson, D.D.
Psalm 48Novello
681913Falstafforchestralsymphonic study for orchestra,
after Shakespeare, King Henry IV and V
Landon RonaldNovello
691912The Music Makerschoralode for contralto or mezzo-soprano soloist, chorus SATB and orchestraNicholas Kilburn[55]Arthur O'ShaughnessyNovello
701914Sospiriorchestralstring orchestra, harp and organ (or harmonium)W. H. ReedBreitkopf & Härtel
711914Two part-songspart-songSATB unacc.
1. "The Shower"
2. "The Fountain"
71.11914"The Shower"part-songSATB unacc.Miss Frances Smart[56]Henry VaughanNovello
71.21914"The Fountain"part-songSATB unacc.W. Mann Dyson[57]Henry VaughanNovello
721914"Death on the Hills"part-songchoral-song SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov[58]
Lady Colvin[59]Rosa NewmarchNovello
731914Two part-songspart-songSATB unacc.
1. "Love's Tempest"
2. "Serenade"
73.11914"Love's Tempest"part-songSATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov[58]
Prof. C. Sanford TerryRosa NewmarchNovello
73.21914"Serenade"part-songSATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov[58]
Percy C. HullRosa NewmarchNovello
741914"Give unto the Lord"churchanthem SATB, organ and orchestraSir George Martin, M.V.O., Mus.D.Psalm 29Novello
751914Carillonorchestralrecitation with orchestraÉmile CammaertsElkin
761915Poloniaorchestralsymphonic preludeI. J. PaderewskiElkin
771915Une voix dans le désertorchestralrecitation with soprano solo and orchestra,
includes the song "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront" (When the spring comes round)
Émile CammaertsElkin
77.11915"Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront" (When the spring comes roundsongfrom Une voix dans le désert, Op. 77Émile CammaertsElkin
781915–16The Starlight Expressincidentalbaritone and soprano soloists and orchestra,
music to a play adapted from a story A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood,
includes the organ-grinder’s songs:
1. "To the Children"
2. "The Blue-Eyes Fairy"
3. "My Old Tunes"
Algernon BlackwoodElkin
791917Le drapeau belge (The Belgian Flag)orchestralrecitation with orchestra, tr. Lord Curzon of KedlestonÉmile CammaertsElkin
801915–17The Spirit of Englandchoraltenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestra
1. The Fourth of August (1917)
2. To Women (1915)
3. For the Fallen (1915)
'To the memory of our glorious men, with a special thought for the Worcesters'Novello
80.11917The Fourth of Augustchoraltenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestra,
from The Winnowing Fan by Binyon
Laurence BinyonNovello
80.21915To Womenchoraltenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestraLaurence BinyonNovello
80.31915For the Fallenchoraltenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestraLaurence BinyonNovello
80.31920With Proud Thanksgivingchoralchorus SATB and orchestra,
a simpler version of For the Fallen, for the dedication of the Cenotaph
League of Arts[60]Laurence BinyonNovello
811917The Sanguine Fanballetballet music for orchestra.[61] Echo's Dance arranged for pianoMS
811917Echo's Dancearrangementfrom The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81, arranged for pianoElkin
821918Violin Sonata in E minorchamberviolin and piano'M. J. -1918'
(Marie Joshua)[62]
Novello
831918String Quartet in E minorchamberstring quartetBrodsky Quartet[63]Novello
841918–19Piano Quintet in A minorchamberstring quartet and pianoErnest NewmanNovello
851918–19Cello Concerto in E minorconcertantecello and orchestraSidney and Frances ColvinNovello
861921–22Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
(J. S. Bach)
arrangementtranscription for orchestra, Fantasia 1921, Fugue 1922Novello
871930The Severn Suitebrass bandtranscribed for orchestra (1932))
1. Introduction (Worcester Castle)
2. Toccata (Tournament)
3. Fugue (The Cathedral) (1923)
4. Minuet (Commandery)
5. Coda
G. Bernard ShawR Smith
87a1933Organ Sonata No. 2keyboardarrangement of The Severn Suite for organ by Ivor AtkinsKeith Prowse
881932–34Symphony No. 3orchestralposth. Op. 88,
sketches, elaborated by Anthony Payne 1972–97
Boosey
891933The Spanish Ladyoperalibretto by Elgar and Sir Barry Jackson after Ben Jonson, planned in two acts but incomplete, posth. Suite for string orchestra ed. Percy M. Young[64]
songs:1. "Modest and Fair"
2. "Still to be Neat"
also suite for strings ed. Young (1956)
Ben JonsonElkin
901909–25Piano Concertoconcertantepiano and orchestra,
posth. Op. 90,
sketches, 1909–25, elaborated by Robert Walker 1997
?
10011919The Smoking Cantatasongbaritone soloist and orchestra[65][66]?
1867Humoreske 'a tune from Broadheath'pianolater used for Fairies and Giants in The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1, see Op. 1a
1867The Wand of Youthincidentalmusic for a children’s play,
assembled as two orchestral suites in 1907, see Op. 1a and Op. 1b
1868Kyrie Eleison in Achurchchoir SATB
1870Fugue in G minorkeyboardfor organ [?], c. 1870, unfinished
1872"The Language of Flowers"songvoice and piano, unpub.'The Music composed & dedicated to my sister Lucy' [67]The Poetry by Percival[68]MS
1872Chantantkeyboardpiano soloMS
1872Gloriachurchfor choir and organ, arr. using the piano part of the Allegro from Violin Sonata in F, K.547
(Mozart)
MS
1873Credoarrangementchoir and organ, themes from Symphonies V VII and IX (Beethoven)
"arr. Bernard Pappenheim"[69] [comment by Elgar]
MS
1874Anthemarrangementarr. for strings, with original introductionMS
1875"The Self Banished"songsoprano or tenor acc. piano, unpub.Edmund WallerMS
1876Salve Reginachurchin D, choir and organMS
1876Tantum Ergochurchin D, choir and organEucharistic HymnMS
1877"O Salutaris Hostia"churchin G, bass solo and organO Salutaris HostiaMS
1877Credo in E minorchurchchoir and organNicene CreedMS
1877Gloriachurchchoir SATB and organMS
1877Kyriechurchchoir STBMS
1877Five well-known piecesarrangementarr. as studies for the violin, at the suggestion of Adolphe Pollitzer
1. Larghetto (Mozart)
2. Cavatina (Raff)
3. Romance (de Bériot)
4. Romance (Vieuxtemps)
5. Gigue (Ries)
Schott
1877Peckham MarchchamberHarmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
see also Op. 6.1 — Op. 6.6
MS
1877Reminiscenceschamberviolin and pianoO. G.[70]MS
1877Exercise for the 3rd fingerchamberviolin soloJascha Heifetz (1920)[71]MS
1878Adeste Fideles
(John F. Wade)
arrangementarr. for orchestraMS
1878Violin Sonata Op. 23, finale
(Beethoven)
arrangementarr. for wind quintetMS
1878Concerto X
(Corelli)
arrangementarr. for wind quintetMS
1878Ariodante overture
(Handel)
arrangementarr. for small orchestraMS
1878O ‘tis a glorious sight from Oberon
(Weber)
arrangementarr. for small orchestraF. G. Pedley[12]MS
1878Fantasiachamberviolin and piano, unfinishedMS
1878Fugue in D minorchamberoboe and violinFrank Elgar[72] and Karl Bammert[73]MS
1878String Quartet in DchamberunfinishedMS
1878String Quartet in BchamberunfinishedMS
1878String Trio in CchamberunfinishedMS
1878Triochamber2 violins and piano, unfinishedMS
1878Allegrochamberoboe, violin, viola and cello, unfinishedMS
1878Menuetto (Scherzo)chamberre-copied 1930MS
1878Symphony in G minor after Mozartorchestralpart of first movement existsMS
1878Introductory Overture for Christy MinstrelsorchestralMS
1878"Brother, For Thee He Died" (Easter Anthem)churchchoir and organMS
1878"Praise ye the Lord"churchhymn tune, revised as Good Morrow[74]
1878"Now with the fast-departing light"churchhymn tune in G, choir and organ, 'Broadheath'Edward CaswallMS
1878"Hear Thy children"churchhymn tune in F, choir and organ, pub. 1896 as Drakes Broughton in Westminster Hymnal, and Parish Hymn Book (Nos. 189/190), also used in Nursery Suite (Aubade)Francis StanfieldCary
1878"If She Love Me" (Temple Bar Rondeau)songvoice and pianoMS
1878Minuet in G minororchestralminuet for Powick Asylum band:
flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
MS
1879"Domine Salvam fac reginam"churchmotet, choir and organLatin hymnMS
1879–84Powick Asylum Musicorchestralfor Powick Asylum band:
1. La Brunette (1879)
2. Die Junge Kokette (1879)
3. L'Assomoir (1879)
4. The Valentine (1879)
5. Maud (1880)
6. Paris (1880)
7. Nelly[75] (1881)
8. La Blonde (1882)
9. Helcia (1883)
10. Blumine (1884)
MS
1879La Brunetteorchestral5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
Geo. Jenkins Esq.[76]MS
1879Die Junge Koketteorchestral5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
Miss J. Holloway[77]MS
1879Two Polonaiseschamberviolin and piano, unfinished" J. H. [Miss J. Holloway] with esteem"[77]MS
1879L'Assomoirorchestral5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
MS
1879The Valentineorchestral5 Lancers for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
MS
1879Minuet-graziosoorchestrallost or destroyed
1880Maudorchestralpolka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
MS
1880Parisorchestral5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
1. Châtelet
2. L'Hippodrome
3. Alcazar d'Été (Champs-Élysées)
4. La! Suzanne
5. Café des Ambassadeurs: "La femme de l'emballeur"
Miss J. Holloway, Powycke[77]MS
1880Violin Sonata in F, K.547
(Mozart)
arrangementarr. as GloriaMS
1880"O Salutaris Hostia"churchin F, choir and organO Salutaris HostiaMS
1880"O Salutaris Hostia"churchin E-flat, choir and organO Salutaris HostiaMS
1881Fantasy on Irish Airschamberviolin and piano, unfinishedMS
1881Fugue in F minorchamberincomplete – later copied for The Spanish LadyMS
1881Nelly[75]orchestralpolka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, viola, double bass and piano
Fras. Thos. Elgar[78]MS
1882La Blondeorchestralpolka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, clarinet, 2 cornets, trombone, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
'H. J. W.' (Helen Weaver)[75]MS
1882Douce Penséechamberviolin, cello and piano,
pub. 1915 as Rosemary
MS
1882Suite in Dorchestral1. Mazurka
2. Intermezzo-Sérénade Mauresque
3. Fantasia gavotte
4. Marche – Pas Redoublé
Revised 1899 as Three Characteristic Pieces (see Op. 10)
MS
1882"O Salutaris Hostia"churchin E-flat, bass solo and organO Salutaris HostiaMS
1882Benedictus in Gchurchfor choir, organ and stringsMS
1882Four Litanies for the Blessed Virgin Marychurchchoir unacc.Fr. T. Knight, S.J., Worcester[79]Cary
1882Air de Ballet – Pastoraleorchestralperf. WorcesterMS
1882Marche – Pas Redoubléorchestralperf. Worcester Marche incorporated into The Spanish Lady and Suite in DMS
1882Air de Balletorchestralperf. WorcesterMS
1883Scherzo
(Schumann)
arrangementarr. Scherzo from Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52,
for piano solo
MS
1883Entry of the Minstrels from Tannhaüser Act III,
(Wagner)
arrangementfor pianoMS
1883Helciaorchestralpolka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, viola, double bass and piano
MS
1884Blumineorchestralpolka for Powick Asylum band:
clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
MS
1884Griffinesquekeyboardpiano, pub. posth. by NovelloNovello
1884"A Soldier’s Song"songsee "A War Song", Op. 5.1
1885"Clapham Town End"songlow voice and piano,
arrangement of an old Yorkshire[80] folksong, unpub. "An old Yorkshire ballad taken down from the singing of old Tommy Kerr [?] as he got it from his grandfather. Harmonised in strict accordance with the spirit of the age" [comment by Elgar]
Dr. C. W. Buck[81]trad.Young[82]
1885"Clapham Town End"arrangementsee Clapham Town End, song
1885Gavottechamberviolin and pianoDr. C. W. Buck,[81] SettleSchott
1885Absent and Present
(Maude Valérie White)
arrangementcello obbligato, end note – "Lobster cutlets! Oh!!!!!!" [comment by Elgar]MS
1885Out on the Rocks
(C. H. Dolby)
arrangementcello obbligatoMS
1885Melody
(C. W. Buck)
arrangementpiano accompaniment for celloMS
1885The Lakes overtureorchestralMS lost
1885Scottish OvertureorchestralMS lost
1886Petite reine - Berceuse,
(G. F. Blackbourne)[83]
arrangementviolin and piano, pub. 1907Willcocks & Co.
1886"Is she not passing fair?"[84]songpub. 1908, Lay, tr. from poem by Charles, Duke of Orléans (1391–1466)Louisa Stuart CostelloBoosey
1886Triochamberviolin, cello and piano, fragment only of first movement, "Sans"[85]MS
1886Enina Valsekeyboardpiano,
dated Malvern Wells 21 Dec 1886
MS
1887Duett for trombone and double basschambertrombone and double bass,
pub. 1970, ed. Rodney Slatford
Frank William Weaver, on his wedding-day[75]Yorke
1888"As I laye a-thynkynge"songvoice and piano,
the last lines of Thomas Ingoldsby
Thomas IngoldsbyBeare
1888"The Wind at Dawn"songvoice and pianoDr. Ludwig Wüllner[86]C. Alice Roberts (Elgar)Boosey
1888Allegretto on G.E.D.G.E.[7]chamberviolin and pianoThe Misses Gedge, Malvern Wells[87]Schott
1888"Ecce Sacerdos Magnus"churchchoir and organHubert Leicester, Worcester[3]LiturgyCary
1888"O Salutaris Hostia"churchchoir, written 1880O Salutaris HostiaCary
1888Liebesgrusschambersee Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
1889Liebesahnungchambersee Mot d'Amour, Op. 13.1
1889"Queen Mary's Song"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
J. H. Meredith[88]Alfred TennysonOrsborn & Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
1889Prestokeyboardpiano
1890"Man"songvoice and piano
1890Violin Concertoconcertantedestroyed
1892"A Song of Autumn"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Miss Marshall[89]Adam Lindsay GordonOrsborn & Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
1892"Like to the Damask Rose"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Simon Wastell[90]
or Francis Quarles
Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
1892"The Poet's Life"songvoice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Ellen Burroughs[91]Ascherberg
1892"A spear, a sword"songvoice and piano, unpub.C. Alice Elgar[92]
1892Mill-wheel Songs[93]songvoice and piano, unpub.
1. "Winter"
2. "May (a rhapsody)"
C. Alice Elgar
1894"The Wave"[94]songvoice and piano, unpub.
1894"Muleteer's Song"songvoice and piano[94]Barry Pain[95]
1894Parsifal, Good Friday Music (Wagner)arrangementfor small orchestra, Worcester High School
301896"As torrents in summer"part-songSATB unacc., from Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30, pub. separately,LongfellowNovello
291896"Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars"songtenor solo and chorus TTBB, from The Light of Life, Op. 29, pub. separatelyRev. E. Capel-CureNovello
291896"Doubt not thy Father's care"songduet, soprano and alto, from The Light of Life, Op. 29, pub. separatelyRev. E. Capel-CureNovello
351897"The Sword Song"songbaritone, from Caractacus, Op. 35, pub. separatelyH.M Queen VictoriaH. A. AcworthNovello
1897"Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light"songvoice and piano, composed 1887, unpub.A. C. SwinburneMS
1897"Grete Malverne on a Rocke"part-songChristmas carol SATB unacc.,
pub. 1909 as Lo, Christ the Lord is born
trad.[96]Christmas Card
1898"The Holly and the Ivy"arrangementChristmas carol,
chorus and orchestra
trad.
1898Festival March in Cchoralchorus and orchestra, fragment only remains
1898"Love alone will stay"songvoice and piano, published in "The Dome",
later adapted as In Haven, No. 2 of Sea Pictures, Op. 37
C. Alice ElgarPaternoster Press
1898"O Salutaris Hostia"churchchoir unacc., in Tozer’s Benediction Manual No. 47O Salutaris HostiaCary
1899"Dry those fair, those crystal eyes"songvoice and pianoHenry KingCharing + Hospital Bazaar
1899"To her beneath whose stedfast star"part-songSATB unacc., orchestrated 1902H.M. Queen VictoriaFrederic W. H. MyersMacmillan
121899"Woo thou, sweet Music"songvoice and piano,
from Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, adapted by Max Laistner[97]
A. C. Bunten[98]Schott
1899Sérénade LyriqueorchestralIvan Caryll’s OrchestraChappell
1900"Pansies"songvoice and piano,
from Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, adapted by Max Laistner[97]
Percy E. PinkertonSchott
1900"The Pipes of Pan"songvoice and pianoAdrian RossBoosey
1901"Always and Everywhere"songvoice and piano, from the Polish of KrasińskiF. H. Fortey[99]Boosey
1901"Come, Gentle Night!"songvoice and pianoClifton Bingham[100]Boosey
1901May-Songkeyboardpiano, for orchestra (Elkin, 1928)Mrs. T. Garmston Hyde[101]W. H. Broome
Morrice Music
Elkin
1901Emmaus
(Herbert Brewer)
arrangementorchestration
1902"Land of Hope and Glory"songvoice and piano or orchestraA. C. BensonBoosey
1902"O Mightiest of the Mighty"churchhymn for the Coronation of Edward VIIH.R.H. Prince of Wales
(later H.M. King Edward VII)
Rev. S. Childs Clarke[102]Novello
1902"God Save the King"arrangementsoloists, chorus and orchestraNovello
1903"Speak, my Heart!"songvoice and pianoA. C. BensonBoosey
1903"Weary Wind of the West"part-songSATB unacc.T. E. BrownNovello
1903Offertoire (Andante Religioso)chamberviolin and piano, "Offertoire pour le violon, Gustave Francke (op.11)"[103]dédié à Serge Derval, Anvers[104]Boosey
1903Skizzekeyboardpiano, repub. NovelloProf. Julius Buths, DüsseldorfMusik-Beilag zur Nuen Musik-Zeitung (Stuttgart),
Novello
501904Canto Popolarechamberviola and piano, arranged by the composer from his concert-overture In the South (Alassio), Op. 50Boosey
501904"In Moonlight"songvoice and piano,
adapted to the viola serenade Canto Popolare from the concert-overture In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
ShelleyBoosey
1905"Evening Scene"part-songSATB unacc.In Memory of R. G. H. Howson[105]Coventry PatmoreNovello
1905In Smyrnakeyboardpiano, pub. "Queen's Christmas Carol Book", repub. NovelloDaily Mail,
Novello
1906Piece for Organkeyboardorgan, "For Dot's Nuns"[106] [remark by Elgar]
1907Berceuse - Petite reinesee Petite reine - Berceuse
1907Andantino
(Victor Bérard)
arrangementviolin, mandolin and guitar "For the Barbers" [remark by Elgar],[107]
unfinished
1907Two single chants for Venite in D and Gchurchchoir, in "New Cathedral Psalter"Novello
1907Two double chants in D for Psalms 68 and 75churchchoir, in "New Cathedral Psalter"Novello
1907String quartetchamberfragmentary
1907"How calmly the evening"part-songSATB unacc.Thomas Toke Lynch[108]Novello
1907Seven Lieder of Edward Elgarsongvoice and piano
1. "Like to the Damask Rose"
2. "Queen Mary's Song"
3. "A Song of Autumn"
4. "The Poet's Life"
5. "Through the Long Days"
6. "Rondel"
7. "The Shepherd's Song"
all first pub. 1889-1894
Boosey
1908"Follow the Colours"songMarching song for solo, piano/orchestra/military band, and optional male chorus
Republished 1914
Worshipful Company of MusiciansCapt. W. de Courcy Stretton [109]Novello
1908Marching Song-see "Follow the Colours"
1908"Abide with me"
(Ivor Atkins)
arrangementanthem, rev. 1928
1909"Lo! Christ the Lord is Born"churchChristmas carol SATB unacc.,
after Grete Malverne on a Rocke, 1897
Shapcott WensleyNovello
1910"A Child Asleep"songvoice and pianoAnthony Goetz[110]Elizabeth Barrett BrowningNovello
1910"The King's Way"songvoice and pianoC. Alice ElgarBoosey
1910"They are at Rest"churchanthem for choir and organ, perf. at the Royal Mausoleum for the anniversary of Queen Victoria's deathCardinal NewmanNovello
1911St Matthew Passion
(J. S. Bach)
arrangementperforming edition, with Ivor AtkinsNovello
1911St Matthew Passion
(J. S. Bach)
arrangementtwo chorales
"O Mensch bewein dein Sünde Gross" BWV 622,
"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" BWV 244,
for 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones and tuba
MS
1913"Callicles"songScena, intended for Muriel FosterMatthew Arnold
1913CarissimaorchestralWinifred Stephens[111]Elkin
1914"Fear not, O Land"churchHarvest AnthemJoel iiNovello
1914"Arabian Serenade"songvoice and pianoMargery LawrenceBoosey
1914"The Chariots of the Lord"songvoice and pianoRev. John Brownlie[112]Boosey
1914"The Birthright"part-songboys' voices unison acc. bugles and drums or SATB unacc.George A. Stocks[113]Novello
1914"The Merry-go-round"songunison song acc. piano,
pub. USA[114]
Florence C. Fox[115]Silver Burdett
1915Rosemaryorchestralorchestration of Douce Pensée (1882) for piano trioElkin
1915"Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront"songsee Une voix dans le désert, Op. 77
1915"The Brook"part-song2-part song acc. piano,
pub. USA[114]
Ellen Soule[116]Silver Burdett
1915"The Windlass Song"part-songSATB unacc.,
pub. USA[114]
William AllinghamSilver Burdett
1916"Fight for Right"songvoice and pianoMembers of the Fight for Right MovementWilliam MorrisElkin
1917"Ozymandias"songvoice and pianoShelley
1917The Fringes of the Fleetsongsongs for four baritones and orchestra,
1. "The Lowestoft Boat (A Chanty)"
2. "Fate's Discourtesy"
3. "Submarines"
4. "The Sweepers"
5. "Inside the Bar (A Sailor's Song)" added later
'To my friend Admiral Lord Beresford'Rudyard KiplingEnoch
1917"The Lowestoft Boat (A Chanty)"songfour baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
Rudyard KiplingEnoch
1917"Fate's Discourtesy"songfour baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
Rudyard KiplingEnoch
1917"Submarines"songfour baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
Rudyard KiplingEnoch
1917"The Sweepers"songfour baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
Rudyard KiplingEnoch
1917"Inside the Bar (A Sailor's Song)"songfour baritones unaccompanied
added to The Fringes of the Fleet,
dedicated to the four singers
Charles Mott,
Harry Barratt,
Frederick Henry and
Frederick Stewart
Gilbert ParkerEnoch
1918"Big Steamers"songunison song for children, acc. pianoRudyard KiplingTeachers' World
1922"Ye Holy Angels bright"
(John Darwall)
arrangementorchestral accompaniment
1922"Jerusalem"
(Parry)
arrangementfor chorus and orchestraWilliam Blake
1923Arthurincidentalto a play by Laurence Binyon
1923"The Wanderer"part-songTTBB unacc.Anon., adapted from Wit and Drollery, 1661Novello
1923"Zut, zut, zut!"part-songTTBB unacc.Richard Marden[117]Novello
1923Memorial Chimes for a Carillonkeyboardfor the opening of the Loughborough War Memorial Carillon[118]William Wooding Starmer[119]MS
1923Overture in D minor
(Handel)
arrangementtranscription for orchestra of the Overture in D minor (Chandos Anthem "In the Lord put I my Trust", HWV247)Novello
1923"O Lord,look down from Heaven"
(Battishill)
arrangementorchestral accompanimentMS
1923"Let us Lift up our Hearts"
(S. S. Wesley)
arrangementorchestral accompanimentMS
1924Empire MarchorchestralEnoch
1924Arthur: Suiteorchestralfor chamber orchestra (from the incidental music to Binyon's ArthurMS
1924Pageant of Empireincidentalsolo songs, except No. 8 "A Song of Union" for SATB
Nos. 5 and 7 were also later arranged for chorus SATB; some also with orchestral accompaniment
1. "Shakespeare's Kingdom"
2. "The Islands (A Song of New Zealand)"
3. "The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia)"
4. "The Heart of Canada"
5. "Sailing Westward"
6. "Merchant Adventurers"
7. "The Immortal Legions"
8. "A Song of Union" (part-song SATB)
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"Shakespeare's Kingdom"songsolo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"The Islands (A Song of New Zealand)"songsolo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia)"songsolo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"The Heart of Canada"songsolo voice, SATB chorus and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"Sailing Westward"songsolo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire,
later arranged for chorus SATB
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"Merchant Adventurers"songsolo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"The Immortal Legions"songsolo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire,
later arranged for chorus SATB
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924"A Song of Union"part-songSATB chorus and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire, trio of Empire March
Alfred NoyesEnoch
1924Marchchamberviolin, cello and piano,
intended also for orchestra[120]
The Grafton family[35]
1924"The Song of the Bull"part-songmale voices and piano, for Cambridge University May WeekF. Hamilton
1925"The Herald"part-songSATB unacc.Alexander SmithNovello
1925"The Prince of Sleep"part-songSATB unacc.Walter de la MareElkin
1927Civic Fanfareorchestralorchestra without violins[121]Dr. Percy C. HullMS
1928May-Songorchestralfrom the original for piano
1928Beau Brummelincidentaldramatic music to a play by Bertram Matthews. MS full score mostly missing, except for the Minuet, found in c2006.[122]Bertram P. MatthewsMS
1928Minuet from Beau Brummelorchestralarr. for full orch. by Elgar: arr. for piano solo by Ernest Austin[122] Elkin
1928"I sing the Birth"churchChristmas carol SATB unacc.Rev. Harcourt B. S. Fowler[123]Ben JonsonNovello
1929"Good Morrow"church'A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery', SATB unacc. or acc. pianoH.M. King George VGeorge GascoigneNovello
1929"Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei"
(Purcell)
arrangementorchestral accompanimentMS
1930"It isnae me"songvoice and pianoJoan ElwesSally HolmesKeith Prowse
1930"XTC"songvoice and pianoEdward Elgar
1930Soliloquychamberoboe and piano
1931Nursery Suiteorchestral1. Aubade (Awake)
2. The Serious Doll
3. Busy-ness
4. The Sad Doll
5. The Wagon (Passes)
6. The Merry Doll
7. Dreaming – Envoy (coda)
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of York and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret RoseKeith Prowse
1932Queen Alexandra's Memorial Odechoral"So many true Princesses who have gone",
SATB and orchestra or military band[124]
In Memory H.M. Queen AlexandraJohn MasefieldMS
1932"The Woodland Stream"songunison songStephen S. Moore[125]Charles MackayKeith Prowse
1932"The Rapid Stream"songunison songStephen S. Moore, Worcester[125]Charles MackayKeith Prowse
1932"When Swallows Fly"songunison songStephen S. Moore[125]Charles MackayKeith Prowse
1932Sonatinakeyboardpiano, certainly written many years earlierMay Grafton[35]Keith Prowse
1932Adieukeyboardpiano, certainly written many years earlier, transcribed for violin by SzigetiKeith Prowse
1932Serenadekeyboardpiano, certainly written many years earlierJohn Austin[126]Keith Prowse
1933Mina[127]orchestralsmall orchestraKeith Prowse
1933"Tarantella"songbaritone and orchestra, incompleteHilaire Belloc
1933Funeral March
(Chopin)
arrangementtranscription for orchestra of the Funeral March from the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35Keith Prowse
1879Adagio Solennesee Five Intermezzos of Wind Quintets, Op 6.1, also used in Cantique, Op. 3
1879Evesham Andantesee Andante con Variazioni of Wind Quintets, Op. 6.5
1879Mrs Winslow's soothing syrupsee Adagio Cantabile of Wind Quintets, Op. 6.6
1892"Stars of the Summer Night"see "Spanish Serenade", Op. 23
1884Une Idyllesee Idylle, Op. 4.1
1894King Olafsee Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf, Op. 30
1896Lux Christisee The Light of Life, Op. 29
34.11897Te Deum LaudamusseeTe Deum and Benedictus, Op.34Hymn
34.21897BenedictusseeTe Deum and Benedictus, Op.34Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
1899Enigma Variationssee Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36
1902Enfants d'un Rêvesee Dream Children, Op. 43
1911Coronation Offertoriumsee "O Hearken Thou", Op. 64
1911"Intende voci orationis meæ"see "O Hearken Thou", Op. 64
1915"When the spring comes round"see "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront"
1915"A voice in the desert"see "Une voix dans le désert", Op. 77
1916The Belgian Flagsee Le drapeau belge, Op. 79
1932"So many true Princesses who have gone"see Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode, 1932

Notes

  1. Oswin Grainger was an older musical friend, reluctantly a grocer by trade
  2. Dr. Charles Lee Williams was former organist of Gloucester Cathedral
  3. Hubert Leicester was a lifelong friend of Elgar's, played flute in the early wind quintets (his brother William played clarinet), and was always a keen musician; the Leicester family lived at No. 6 Worcester High Street, a few doors away from the Elgar music shop. Hubert Leicester wrote a book Forgotten Worcester with a preface by Elgar, and became Mayor of Worcester (Kennedy p.263)
  4. Elgar's boyhood employer, the solicitor William Allen (Moore, p.118)
  5. Agnes Leicester was the wife of Elgar's lifelong friend Hubert Leicester – they were married three years before Edward Elgar and Alice
  6. A friend of Elgar's, the Very Rev. Canon Charles Vincent Dolman, O.S.B. was the priest of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Broad Street, Hereford
  7. Op. 3 was first assigned to Allegretto on G.E.D.G.E., then finally to Cantique
  8. Elgar met 'Miss E. E.' before he was married, whilst on holiday in Scotland
  9. Hilda Fitton was sister of Isabel Fitton – 'Ysobel' (Variation VI) of the Enigma Variations
  10. Frank Webb was a Worcester furniture dealer, and he and his sisters were some of Elgar's earliest violin pupils in Worcester, and a member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society. His son Alan Webb was curator of the Elgar Birthplace in the 1960s(Kennedy, p.19)
  11. J. F. Porte, in his critical book Sir Edward Elgar, asserts that Elgar wrote two songs in his Op. 5, but does not name either: "The two numbers comprising Opus 5 are to be commended to those who would see how a great composer commenced his contributions to the world of song."
  12. Frederick G. Pedley was (according to the 1881 census) a warehouseman from Worcester, two years older than Elgar. He was an amateur singer, and gave the first performance of "A Soldier's Song" at a Worcester Glee Club meeting on 18 March 1884
  13. Charles Flavell Hayward (1863–1906) was born in Wolverhampton, England into a show-business family. He was an actor, poet, violinist, conductor, composer and arranger of music. He was a friend of Elgar's and played at the same desk in the violins. His father Henry Hayward was a violinist known as the "English Paganini". The family emigrated to New Zealand where he, his brothers, their wives and other family (known as "The Brescian Family") made their living in the theatre, which included the novelty of a moving picture show or bioscope as it was called. He died in Adelaide, Australia. His most well-known song (he wrote the lyrics and the music) is called "Come back to me" which was sung by his sister Florence Hayward.
  14. The wind quintet was: Hubert Leicester and Frank Exton (1st and 2nd flutes), Edward's brother Frank Elgar (oboe), Hubert's brother William Leicester (clarinet), and Edward Elgar (bassoon or cello)
  15. Young has "Op. 6, WIND QUINTETS: any of the above, but not specified by E.", referring to the works in the sets here numbered only for convenience "Op. 6.1" to "Op. 6.6" to keep them together (Young, p. 408)
  16. Elgar's spelling. More correctly "Madame Tussaud's"
  17. The violinist who joined the wind quintet was Karl Bammert, a young lodger at the Elgar Music Shop
  18. Andante arioso, the second movement of Harmony Music No.6, was re-scored for organ by the composer in 1912, as Cantique, Op.3
  19. Frank Exton was the second flautist in the quintet
  20. William Leicester, Hubert's brother, was the clarinettist in the quintet
  21. Frank Elgar, Edward's brother, was the oboist in the quintet
  22. The Gavotte named after Alphonsa Leicester, who was the sister of Elgar's friends William and Hubert Leicester
  23. Re-copied for The Spanish Lady
  24. Percy Fletcher identifies this as possibly that of 1888
  25. Lady Mary Lygon (pronounced "Liggon"), commemorated in the Romanza "***" of the Enigma Variations, was sister of Earl Beauchamp. She promoted, among others similar, the Madresfield Musical Competition in 1903. She became Lady Mary Trefusis on marrying Lt.-Col. Henry Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis in 1905
  26. Dyke Acland was a bank manager and amateur cellist
  27. Fred Ward was one of Elgar's pupils, and Bizarrerie was written for him, but (unlike La Capricieuse) not dedicated to him
  28. Julia Raikes, wife of William Raikes, cousin of his wife Alice. The Raikes were the only members of her family to attend Elgar's wedding, and lent the Elgars their house in Upper Norwood for a few weeks in 1889
  29. Dr. Frank Ehrke of the Manor House, Kempsey was 1st violin in the Worcestershire Philharmonic Society Orchestra
  30. Fred Ward was one of Elgar's pupils
  31. Diana McVeagh gives this as Op.18 No.3
  32. Rev. J. Hampton, M.A., Warden of St. Michael's College, Tenbury (Kennedy, p.280)
  33. The Rev. Walter H. Whinfield was the youngest son of Edward Whinfield, head of an organ-building firm and vice-president of the Worcester Musical Society, who gave musical evenings at his large house 'Severn Grange' near Claines, where the young Edward Elgar began to meet a wide range of musicians, some of whom were to become lifelong friends (Moore, p. 89)
  34. Paul Kilburn was the son of Elgar's friend, the organist and conductor Nicholas Kilburn
  35. May Grafton was Elgar's niece, daughter of William Grafton and Elgar's sister Pollie
  36. Mrs E. B. Fitton was a Malvern pianist and mother of Hilda and Isabel Fitton ('Ysobel' of the Enigma Variations)
  37. In August 1893 the Elgars spent two weeks in Garmisch at the guest-house of an English family, the Bethells, who they had met the year before (Moore, p.175)
  38. Sketches "elaborated" by Anthony Payne
  39. Mrs. Edward Speyer was Antonia Kufferath, the Belgian-born soprano, daughter of Alice Elgar's old piano teacher Ferdinand Kufferath and wife of Elgar's friend the wealthy banker Edward Speyer. 'Ridgehurst' was their home at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Not to be confused with Sir Edgar Speyer and Lady Speyer (the latter a professional violinist Leonora von Stosch)
  40. Concert Allegro sometimes still shown in references as "Op. 41"
  41. Lady Maud Warrender (1870–1945) was the youngest daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbury and married Sir George Warrender. She was a singer and patron of music – she organised the first performance of the Coronation Ode in 1903 – and a personal friend of Elgar and his wife
  42. Arthur Leslie Salmon (born 1865), lover of literature, poet, music critic and author of British travel guides
  43. Canon Charles Vincent Gorton was chairman of the Morecambe Festival, and assisted Elgar with the words of The Apostles
  44. Julia Worthington was an American, a friend of Prof. Sanford, whom he met in the U. S. A., and who later saw him in England. The enigmatic dots in the Spanish quotation inscribed on Elgar's Violin Concerto are said to refer to her. He called her "Windflower".
  45. Dr. William McNaught, musical editor and choral conductor, worked for the publishers Novello
  46. "Pietro d'Alba" (alias "Peter Rabbit") was Elgar's pseudonym for himself
  47. Henry Embleton was the wealthy and enthusiastic president of the Leeds Choral Union who encouraged Elgar in his choral music (Moore, p.215)
  48. Elgar's friend and 'muse', known to him as Alice and 'Windflower', Alice Sophia Caroline Millais was daughter of the artist John Everett Millais and wife of Lord Stuart of Wortley. She and her husband shared an interest in music.
  49. Alfred Henry Littleton was chairman of publishers Novello. At the time he wrote the song, Elgar and his wife were staying at the villa of his friend Julia Worthington at Careggi near Florence when they were visited by Littleton, whose wife had just died
  50. Kennedy, p.289
  51. 'Elegy' was premiered at a Memorial Concert in the Mansion House on 13 July 1901. In memoriam Rev. R. H. Haddon, late Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
  52. Of the songs in the planned Op. 59, nos. 1, 2 and 4 were never published, and not even their titles are known
  53. Percy M. Young (in his Elgar O. M.) says this is "Probably fictitious."
  54. Edwin James was principal bassoonist and chairman of the London Symphony Orchestra (Moore, p.563)
  55. Nicholas Kilburn (1843-1923) was an amateur musician, principally an organist and conductor, from Bishop Auckland in Co. Durham who was a close friend of Elgar's for many years.
  56. Frances Smart was a neighbour of the Elgars at 'Forli' before the turn of the century (Moore, p.659)
  57. William Mann Dyson was a singing teacher who sang in the Worcester Glee Club (Moore, p. 695 and 1901 England Census, Worcester)
  58. Vasily Ivanovich Maikov (1728—1778), Russian poet and dramatist. See ru: Майков, Василий Иванович
  59. Frances Colvin, wife of Sir Sidney Colvin
  60. Inscription on the vocal score: 'This adaptation has been made by Sir Edward Elgar, O.M. at the request of the LEAGUE OF ARTS, to whom it is dedicated. It is specially intended for the performance at the Dedication of the Cenotaph and similar ceremonies throughout the country.'
  61. Ballet based on a fan designed by Charles Conder
  62. The violinist Maria Joshua said she was 'overwhelmed' by Elgar's offer of dedication, but was ill and would write later to explain. She never wrote, and died a week later. The dedication was accepted later by her daughter (Moore, p. 725)
  63. The leader was Adolph Brodsky (nearly 70 at the time and principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music) and the others Hugo Becker, Hans Sitt, and Julius Klengel
  64. Young Elgar O.M.
  65. The Smoking Cantata was probably never intended to be performed and was given the jocular opus number of 1001. Its duration is less than a minute
  66. Ward, David (11 December 2003). "Unknown Elgar is just a puff of smoke". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2006.
  67. On her birthday
  68. McVeagh, p. 3
  69. Elgar himself
  70. Probably Oswin Grainger, an older musical friend, reluctantly a grocer by trade
  71. Elgar wrote on the manuscript: "Exercise for the 3rd finger – (The chords not to be played, the 1st, 2nd & 4th fingers remain fixed in the positions ...)." Finally: "Written for my own use in 1877. Copied for Mr. Jascha Heifetz at his request, November 1920. Edward Elgar"
  72. The composer's brother Frank Elgar, who played the oboe
  73. The England 1881 census shows that Karl Bammert was a German watchmaker aged 21, a boarder at the Elgar family house No. 10 High Street Worcester – he was probably the violinist. Frank Elgar and two sisters Lucy and 'Dot' were there, with their parents
  74. Leicester private collection
  75. Frank and Helen Weaver were among the children of William Weaver, a shoe merchant whose shop was opposite the Elgar's at No. 84 Worcester High Street. Frank Weaver also became a shoemaker, and he played the double bass; Elgar wrote the Duett for trombone and double bass as a wedding present to him on 1 August 1887, when he married Fannie Jones. Helen Weaver was 'Nelly' of the Harmony Music; in 1883 Helen and Elgar were engaged to be married, but the engagement was broken off the next year.(Moore, p. 67, and England censuses 1871, 1881)
  76. George Jenkins lived in Powick and was recorded as Clerk at the Asylum in the national censuses of 1871, 1881 and 1891
  77. Miss J. Holloway was the pianist at the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum. Moore, p.87
  78. Elgar's brother Frank
  79. Fr. Thomas Knight, of St. Georges' Church, Worcester
  80. The same tune as "Richard of Taunton Dene", a traditional Somersetshire song
  81. Dr. Charles William Buck was a lifelong cellist friend of Elgar's who lived in Settle, North Yorkshire. On occasional visits Elgar played his violin in trios with Charles and his wife Emma who played piano. He also composed short compositions while he was there. Buck kept most of Elgar's letters to him.
  82. photograph of the MS in Elgar, O.M. by Percy Young, p.128
  83. G. Frank Blackbourne (1840-c1911), an actor, director of musical comedies and song composer, used the pseudonym Victor Béraud for his compositions. He was a neighbour of Elgar in Worcester. Elgar gave the arrangement to Blackbourne, who then sold it to Willcocks & Co. in 1907
  84. From Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection,
  85. Percy Fletcher identifies this as possibly the trio mentioned in a letter to Dr. Buck, 1887
  86. Ludwig Wüllner (1858–1938) was the German tenor (and actor) who deeply impressed Elgar with his performance as Gerontius at Düsseldorf in 1901
  87. Elgar used to go to the Malvern Wells house of The Rev. William Wilberforce Gedge, Headmaster of Wells House School, every week to give violin lessons to his daughters (Moore, p. 72)
  88. According to Percy Young (in Elgar O. M.) Elgar pencilled in a note on the MS that J. H. Meredith was an honorary member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society
  89. According to Percy Young (in Elgar O. M.) Mrs. Marshall and her daughter were friends of Lady Elgar
  90. Simon Wastell (1560–1635), headmaster of the Free School at Northampton
  91. Ellen Burroughs was the pseudonym of the American poet Sophie Jewett (1861–1909)
  92. Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar, p.281
  93. Moore, Edward Elgar: A Creative Life, p. 168
  94. Percy M. Young "Elgar O.M.", footnote p.70
  95. Moore (A Creative Life, p.177) notes (from the Chappell archives) that permission to use the poem by 'Barry Pain' was obtained on 3 March
  96. from 'Historic Worcestershire' by W. Scott Brassington
  97. Max Laistner (1853–1917) was a German musician, a concert pianist and director of the Max Laistner Choir. He made piano transcriptions of the classics, including an "Etude de Concert" after Chopin's Valse in D-flat "Minute Waltz"
  98. Alice Chambers Bunten, scholar, author and lyricist for many songs, well known for her Life of Alice Barnham, Wife of Sir Francis Bacon, London: Oliphants Ltd. 1928
  99. Frank H. Fortey (born in India 1876) was a translator of Polish literature. His main work was the poems of Mickiewicz. He lived in King's Norton near Worcester, and died in 1940.
  100. Clifton Bingham (1859–1913) was an English author of poems and children's books, many of them illustrated by Louis Wain.
  101. Dedicated to Martina Hyde, wife of wealthy Worcester solicitor Thomas Garmston Hyde. Their daughter Martina, one of six children, was a pupil of Elgar's, and the family encouraged him in the formation of a new Worcester Philharmonic Society, with Elgar as conductor. The Hyde family were also amusing friends of the Elgars and lived in a large house in Foregate Street near the station.
  102. Samuel Childs Clarke (1821-1903) was born at Stoke Damerell, his father an army Major-General. He was educated at Oxford - Queens College and St. Mary Hall - before taking Holy Orders and becoming Curate of Thorverton in Devon then later Vicar of St. Thomas, Launceston and Headmaster of Launceston Grammar School. He was the author of a large number of poems and hymns, some set to music by his friend Sir John Stainer.
  103. The composer name on the score Gustave Francke is a pseudonym. The false opus number 11 was in fact allocated to the Sursum Corda of 1894. The work may have been composed as early as 1893 as a movement of a Violin Sonata.
  104. The dedication, like the name of the composer, is probably fictional. Serge Derval, Anvers may form various anagrams which include the name Elgar
  105. R. G. H. Howson was a bank manager who conducted choirs at the Morecambe festivals (Kennedy, p.166)
  106. Elgar's sister Helen Agnes Elgar, known as 'Dot', was in a convent)
  107. Discovering that Italian clients of a hairdresser at Capri diverted themselves with music while waiting for their turn, Elgar composed this piece for their general benefit
  108. Biography and hymns of Thomas Toke Lynch (1818–1871)
  109. At the time he wrote the lyrics, William de Courcy Stretton was a 46-year old wealthy retired Captain of the Royal Artillery, living in Salcombe, Devon. He was the son of Col. Severus William Lynam Stretton (1793–1884) of Nottingham who had served in both Peninsular Wars, and the Hon. Catherine Adela de Courcy, youngest daughter of the 28th Lord Kinsale, premier baron of Ireland
  110. Anthony Goetz was the son of Ludovic Goetz and Muriel Foster, a favourite singer and personal friend of Elgar’s
  111. Winifred Stephens was sister of the singer Muriel Foster, and her husband Jeffrey Stephens worked for the Gramophone Company which made the first recording of Elgar's music, including Carissima
  112. John Brownlie, D.D. (1857–1925) Scottish hymnologist – photo and biography
  113. George Alfred Stocks (1858-1934) had in 1909 written and published The Records of Blackburn Grammar School in two volumes
  114. Elgar made four visits to the USA: the last in 1911. He wrote three songs: "The Merry-go-round" for (children's) voices in unison with piano accompaniment; "The Brook" a simple two-part song with piano accompaniment; and "Windlass Song" for four-part voices (SATB) unaccompanied. The songs were published by Silver, Burdett & Co. of New York City in "The Progressive Music Series", books Two (1914), Three (1915) and Four (1915) respectively. All three songs are short: "The Merry-go-round" 13 bars with two verses – the tune of this is simple and the notation unusually large, indicating that this was written for young children; "The Brook" 13 bars with three verses; and "Windlass Song" 14 bars with four verses. Elgar signed a schedule excluding their publication in any form apart from that series, and specifically not to be published outside the USA, though in 1921 Elgar gave permission for them to be published in the Canadian edition of that series. (Information provided on 1 April 1980 by Elsie Plant, Senior Editor Music Publications, Silver Burdett Company, 250 James Street, Morristown, NJ)
  115. Florence C. Fox (1861–1933) was an American writer of books and poems, and lyricist of songs for children. Her children's books include "Fox's Indian Primer" about American Indians and how they lived.
  116. Ellen Soule (1847-1928) lived in Pasadena, LA. She was dean of women at Northwestern University, and writer of short stories and volumes of poetry, the best-known called "Overflow". Between 1916 and 1917 she was president of the Pasadena Browning Society. She married professor of physics Henry Smith Carhart and they had three children.
  117. Richard Marden was a pseudonym of the composer
  118. "Edward Elgar manuscript found in dusty folder". The Guardian. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  119. William Wooding Starmer (1866–1927) was Professor of Campanology in the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music, London. He was an organist and musicologist, and a keen proponent of carillon music in the early 20th century
  120. According to the composer's markings in the MS (Young, p. 407)
  121. The Civic Fanfare was written for the mayoral procession at the opening of the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford on 4 September 1927. The orchestration includes fanfares for the orchestral brass accompanied by wind and percussion; but the only strings which take part are violas, celli and double basses. The work was intended to precede a performance of Elgar's transcription of 'God Save the King' and ends with a side-drum roll which leads directly into the National Anthem, when the violins join in at the same time as the choir.
  122. Kay, Robert (December 2011). "Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music" (PDF). The Elgar Society Journal. 17 (3): 13–14. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  123. Rev. Harcourt B. S. Fowler of Elmley Castle
  124. Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode was written with accompaniment for orchestra, but was performed by a military band, and all parts have been lost
  125. Stephen Moore was a young Worcester schoolmaster, and the three songs were written for him to complete a contract with publishers Keith Prowse
  126. John Austin was a local violinist, leader of the Worcester Philharmonic, who assisted Elgar in the copying out, checking and playing through of parts, for example Gerontius and the Violin Concerto, Ref Moore, pp.243,348
  127. Mina was Elgar's Cairn terrier

References

  • Kennedy, Michael (1987). Portrait of Elgar (Third ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-284017-7.
  • McVeagh, Diana M. (2007). Elgar the Music Maker. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-295-9.
  • Moore, Jerrold N. (1984). Edward Elgar: A Creative Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315447-1.
  • Porte, J. F. (1921). Sir Edward Elgar. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. Ltd.
  • Young, Percy M. (1973). Elgar O.M.: a study of a musician. London: Collins. OCLC 869820.
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