List of compositions by Edward Elgar
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Compositions

Works are shown in opus number order (Op. 1-90), followed by date order (1867–1933) for those without opus number. The list includes works which are incomplete and unpublished.
Op.YearTitleGenre2. "Ave Maria"/"Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory"
3. "Ave Maris Stella"/"Jesu, Meek and Lowly"
Novello
2.1 1902 "Ave verum corpus" /
"Jesu, Word of God Incarnate"
church motet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887
'In Memoriam - W. A. obit Jany.27:1887.' (William Allen) Eucharistic Hymn
Ave verum Corpus
Ave verum corpus is a short Eucharistic hymn that has been set to music by various composers. It dates from the 14th century and has been attributed to Popes Innocent III, Innocent IV and Innocent VI....

Novello
2.2 1907 "Ave Maria" /
"Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory"
church motet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887
Mrs H. A. Leicester Eucharistic Hymn
Hail Mary
The Angelic Salutation, Hail Mary, or Ave Maria is a traditional biblical Catholic prayer asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. The Hail Mary is used within the Catholic Church, and it forms the basis of the Rosary...

Novello
2.3 1907 "Ave Maris Stella" /
"Jesu, Meek and Lowly"
church motet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887
Rev. Canon Dolman, O.S.B., Hereford Eucharistic Hymn
Ave Maris Stella
Ave Maris Stella is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary. It is of uncertain origin and can be dated back at least as far as the eighth century. It was especially popular in the Middle Ages and has been used by many composers as the basis of other compositions...

Novello
3 1912 Cantique keyboard organ, originally the wind quintet Andante Arioso (1879), arr. organ and for orchestra Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair (composer)
Hugh Blair was an English musician, composer and organist.He was Organist of Worcester Cathedral from 1895 to 1897, having been Acting Organist before that time...

Novello
4 1883 Three pieces chamber violin and piano
1. Idylle
Idylle (Elgar)
Idylle is a piece for violin and piano composed by Edward Elgar in 1884, as his Opus 4, No. 1. It has appended to the title the further description . It was Elgar's first published work....

 (Esquisse Façile)
2. Pastourelle
3. Virelai
4.1 1883 Idylle
Idylle (Elgar)
Idylle is a piece for violin and piano composed by Edward Elgar in 1884, as his Opus 4, No. 1. It has appended to the title the further description . It was Elgar's first published work....

 (Esquisse Façile)
chamber violin and piano E. E., Inverness Beare,
Ashdown
4.2 1883 Pastourelle chamber violin and piano Miss Hilda Fitton, Malvern Swan,
Novello
4.3 1883 Virelai chamber violin and piano Frank W. Webb Swan,
Novello
5 1903 Two songs song voice and piano
1. "A War Song
A War Song
"A War Song", originally called "A Soldier's Song", was a poem written by C. Flavell Hayward and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1884....

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2. unknown
5.1 1903 "A War Song
A War Song
"A War Song", originally called "A Soldier's Song", was a poem written by C. Flavell Hayward and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1884....

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song voice and piano, originally "A Soldier’s Song" (1884) F. G. P., Worcester
(Frederick G. Pedley)
C. Flavell Hayward Boosey
5.2 1903 unknown song voice and piano
6 1878-81 Wind Quintets chamber Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
see Op. 6.1 — Op. 6.6
1. Six Promenades
2. Harmony Music (1—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
6.1 1878 Six Promenades chamber Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
I. Moderato e molto maestoso
II. Moderato ”Madame Taussaud's"
III. Presto
IV. Andante "Somniferous"
V. Allegro molto
VI. Allegro Maestoso "Hell and Tommy"
Belwin
6.2 1879-81 Harmony Music chamber for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon/cello,
- all from 1879 except VII.
I. Allegro Molto
II. Allegro non tanto
III. (Allegro) (incomplete)
IV. Allegro molto "The Farm Yard"
V. 1. Allegro moderato "The Mission"; 2. Menuetto and Trio
; 3. Andante "Noah's Ark"; 4. Finale (Allegro)
VI. Allegro Molto; Andante Arioso (re-scored as Cantique, Op. 3)
VII. Allegro; Scherzo—Allegro Giusto (1881)
Frank Exton (No. I)
W. B. Leicester (II)
Frank Elgar (III)
Belwin
6.3 1879 Five Intermezzos chamber Harmony Music for wind 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
6.4 1879 Four Dances chamber Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1. Menuetto
2. Gavotte "The Alphonsa"
3. Sarabande - Largo
4. Gigue - Allegro
Belwin
6.5 1879 Andante con Variazione "Evesham Andante" chamber Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
'H. A. L.' (Hubert Leicester)
6.6 1879 Adagio Cantabile "Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup
Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup
Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup was a medicinal product formula compounded by Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow and first marketed by her son-in-law Jeremiah Curtis and Benjamin A. Perkins in Bangor, Maine, USA in 1849. The formula consisted of morphine sulphate , sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculi, and...

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chamber Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
Belwin
7 1884 Sevillaña
Sevillana (Elgar)
Sevillana, or, as the composer titled it Sevillaña , is a short piece for orchestra by the English composer Edward Elgar written in 1884 and published as his Op. 7. It was first published by Tuckwood, with the composer's revision of 1889 published by Ascherberg in 1895. It was dedicated to W. C...

orchestral W. C. Stockley Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
8 1888 Quartet chamber string quartet, destroyed
9 1884? Violin Sonata chamber violin and piano, destroyed
10 1899 Three Characteristic Pieces orchestral 1. Mazurka
2. Sérénade Mauresque
3. Contrasts: The Gavotte A.D. 1700 and 1900
Lady Mary Lygon Novello
10.1 1899 Mazurka orchestral Lady Mary Lygon Novello
10.2 1899 Sérénade Mauresque orchestral Lady Mary Lygon Novello
10.3 1899 Contrasts: The Gavotte A.D. 1700 and 1900 orchestral Lady Mary Lygon Novello
11 1894 Sursum corda (Élévation) orchestral strings, brass, timpani and organ H. Dyke Acland, Malvern Schott
12 1888 Salut d'Amour
Salut d'Amour
Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano.-History:Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" because of Miss Roberts’ fluency in German...

 (Liebesgruss)
chamber violin and piano
also for piano, orchestra and numerous arrangements
à Carice (C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

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Schott
13 1889-90 Two pieces chamber violin and piano
1. Mot d'Amour (1889)
2. Bizarrerie (1890)
13.1 1889 Mot d'Amour chamber violin and piano
first pub. as Liebesahnung, companion piece to Liebesgruss
Alice (C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

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Ascherberg
13.2 1890 Bizarrerie chamber violin and piano Fred Ward Ascherberg
14 1890 Vesper Voluntaries keyboard organ
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 Ascherberg
15 1897-99 Two pieces chamber violin and piano
1. Chanson de Nuit
Chanson de Nuit
Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar for violin and piano, and later orchestrated by the composer. Its first publication was in 1897, though it is considered that it was almost certainly written in 1889 or 1890....


2. Chanson de Matin
Chanson de Matin
Chanson de Matin, Op. 15, No. 2, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar for violin and piano, and later orchestrated by the composer. Its first publication was in 1899, though it is thought that it was almost certainly written in 1889 or 1890....

15.1 1897 Chanson de Nuit
Chanson de Nuit
Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar for violin and piano, and later orchestrated by the composer. Its first publication was in 1897, though it is considered that it was almost certainly written in 1889 or 1890....

chamber violin and piano,
also orchestra (1899), numerous arrangements
F. Ehrke, M.D. Novello
15.2 1899 Chanson de Matin
Chanson de Matin
Chanson de Matin, Op. 15, No. 2, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar for violin and piano, and later orchestrated by the composer. Its first publication was in 1899, though it is thought that it was almost certainly written in 1889 or 1890....

chamber violin and piano,
also orchestra (1901), numerous arrangements
Novello
16 1885-94 Three songs song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...


1. "The Shepherd's Song
The Shepherd's Song
”The Shepherd’s Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892. The words are by Barry Pain.The manuscript is dated 22 August 1892.The song was first published in 1895 by Tuckwood as his Op. 16 No.1, then in 1896 by Ascherberg...

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2. "Through the Long Days
Through the Long Days
”Through the Long Days” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1885 as his Op.16, No.2. The words are from a poem by the American writer and statesman John Hay....

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3. Rondel
Rondel (Elgar)
”Rondel” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1894 as his Op.16, No.3. The words are by Longfellow, a translation of a Rondel by Froissart. The manuscript is dated 4 January 1894....

 (1894)
16.1 1892 "The Shepherd's Song
The Shepherd's Song
”The Shepherd’s Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892. The words are by Barry Pain.The manuscript is dated 22 August 1892.The song was first published in 1895 by Tuckwood as his Op. 16 No.1, then in 1896 by Ascherberg...

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song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

Barry Pain
Barry Pain
Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer.-Biography:Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta...

Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
16.2 1885 "Through the Long Days
Through the Long Days
”Through the Long Days” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1885 as his Op.16, No.2. The words are from a poem by the American writer and statesman John Hay....

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song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

John Hay
John Hay
John Milton Hay was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.-Early life:...

Weber,
Ascherberg
16.3 1894 "Rondel
Rondel (Elgar)
”Rondel” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1894 as his Op.16, No.3. The words are by Longfellow, a translation of a Rondel by Froissart. The manuscript is dated 4 January 1894....

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song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...

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after Froissart
Ascherberg
17 1891 La Capricieuse chamber violin and piano Fred Ward Breitkopf & Härtel
18 1890 Three part-songs part-song SATB unacc.
1. "O Happy Eyes"
2. "Love"
3. "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land"
Novello
18.1 1890 "O Happy Eyes" part-song SATB unacc. C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Novello
18.2 1890 "Love" part-song SATB unacc. C. A. E. (C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

)
Arthur Maquarie Novello
18.3 1890 "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land" part-song SATB unacc. Rev. J. Hampton Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.- Biography :Lang was born in Selkirk...

Novello
19 1890 Froissart
Froissart Overture (Elgar)
Froissart, Op 19, is a concert overture by Edward Elgar, inspired by the 14th century chronicles of Jean Froissart, to which Elgar had been attracted through mention of them in Walter Scott's Old Mortality.-History:...

orchestral concert overture Novello
20 1888-92 Serenade
Serenade for Strings (Elgar)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20, is a piece for string orchestra in three short movements, by Edward Elgar.It was written in March 1892 and first performed in private in that year, by the Worcester Ladies' Orchestral Class, with the composer conducting. It received its first public...

orchestral string orchestra,
revised version of Three Pieces for string orchestra
1. Allegro piacevole
2. Larghetto
3. Allegretto
W. H. Whinfield Breitkopf & Härtel
21 1899 Minuet orchestral originally for piano 1897 Paul Kilburn Joseph Williams
22 1892 Very Melodious Exercises in the First Position chamber violin and piano May Grafton Chanot,
Laudy
23 1892 "Spanish Serenade" part-song "Stars of the Summer Night".
SATB acc. 2 violins and piano,
also acc. orchestra 1893
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...

Novello
24 1892 Études caractéristiques chamber violin solo Adolphe Pollitzer
Adolf Pollitzer
Adolf Pollitzer, also Adolph Pollitzer was a Hungarian Jewish violinist.In 1842, he left Budapest for Vienna, where he studied the violin under Joseph Böhm at the Vienna Conservatory; and in his 14th year he took the first prize at the Conservatory. After a concert tour in Germany, he went to...

Chanot
25 1889-92 The Black Knight
The Black Knight (Elgar)
The Black Knight, Op. 25 is a symphony/cantata for orchestra and chorus written by Edward Elgar in 1889-1893. The librettist borrows from Longfellow's translation of the ballad Der schwarze Ritter by Ludwig Uhland.-Purpose:...

choral symphony/cantata for chorus and orchestra, poem by Uhland, tr. Longfellow Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair (composer)
Hugh Blair was an English musician, composer and organist.He was Organist of Worcester Cathedral from 1895 to 1897, having been Acting Organist before that time...

Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...

Novello
26 1894 Two part-songs part-song SSA acc. 2 violins and piano
1. "The Snow"
2. "Fly, Singing Bird"
Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Novello
26.1 1894 "The Snow" part-song SSA acc. 2 violins and piano,
also other vocal arrangements and with orchestra
Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Novello
26.2 1894 "Fly, Singing Bird" part-song SSA acc. 2 violins and piano,
also other vocal arrangements and with orchestra
Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Novello
27 1895-96 From the Bavarian Highlands choral choral-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
Murnau am Staffelsee
Murnau am Staffelsee is a market town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, Germany.Murnau is situated on the edge of the Bavarian alps, approx. 70 km south of Munich. Directly to its west is the Staffelsee lake.-History:Murnau was first documented in...

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Nos. 1, 3 and 6 arr. for orchestra as Three Bavarian Dances
Mr and Mrs Henry Slingsby Bethell, Garmisch, Bavaria C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

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adapted from Bavarian folksongs
Joseph Williams
27 1898 Three Bavarian Dances orchestral songs from From the Bavarian Highlands arranged for orchestra
1. "The Dance" (Sonnenbichl)
2. "Lullaby" (In Hammersbach)
3. "The Marksmen (Bei Murnau
Murnau am Staffelsee
Murnau am Staffelsee is a market town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, Germany.Murnau is situated on the edge of the Bavarian alps, approx. 70 km south of Munich. Directly to its west is the Staffelsee lake.-History:Murnau was first documented in...

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also for piano solo, and violin and piano
Joseph Williams
28 1898 Organ Sonata in G
Organ Sonata (Elgar)
The Sonata in G major, Op 28 is Sir Edward Elgar's first sonata composed for the organ and first performed on 8 July 1895. It also exists in an arrangement for full orchestra made after Elgar's death...

keyboard organ Dr. C. Swinnerton Heap Breitkopf
29 1896 The Light of Life choral (Lux Christi)
soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
Dr. C. Swinnerton Heap Rev. E. Capel-Cure,
adapted from the Scriptures
Novello
30 1896 Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf choral cantata for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
incl. part-song "As torrents in summer" pub. separately
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...


and Harry Arbuthnot Acworth
Novello
31 1900 Two songs song voice and piano
1. "After
After (Elgar)
”After” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1895, as his Op.31, No.1, with the words from a poem by Philip Bourke Marston.The manuscript is dated 21 June 1895....

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2. "A Song of Flight
A Song of Flight
"A Song of Flight" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1895, as his Op.31, No.2, with the words from a poem by Christina Rossetti....

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31.1 1900 "After
After (Elgar)
”After” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1895, as his Op.31, No.1, with the words from a poem by Philip Bourke Marston.The manuscript is dated 21 June 1895....

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song voice and piano Philip Bourke Marston
Philip Bourke Marston
Philip Bourke Marston was an English poet.He was born in London. His father, John Westland Marston , wrote verse dramas, and was a friend of Dickens, Macready and Charles Kean. Philip's godparents were Philip James Bailey and Dinah Mulock...

Boosey
31.2 1900 "A Song of Flight
A Song of Flight
"A Song of Flight" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1895, as his Op.31, No.2, with the words from a poem by Christina Rossetti....

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song voice and piano Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...

Boosey
32 1897 Imperial March orchestral for the Diamond Jubilee
Diamond Jubilee
A Diamond Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 60th anniversary in the case of a person or a 75th anniversary in the case of an event.- Thailand :...

 of the Queen's accession, also arr. piano
for H.M. Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

Novello
33 1897 The Banner of St. George choral ballad for chorus and orchestra Shapcott Wensley
Shapcott Wensley
Shapcott Wensley was the pseudonym of the English author and poet Henry Shapcott Bunce .- Life :He was born in Bristol in the summer of 1854. He died in Bristol on 1 June 1917. He married a singer, Alice Mary Wensley, and they had one daughter, Gertrude.By profession he was a clerk in a soap works...

Novello
34 1897 Te Deum and Benedictus church choir and organ Hymn
Te Deum
The Te Deum is an early Christian hymn of praise. The title is taken from its opening Latin words, Te Deum laudamus, rendered literally as "Thee, O God, we praise"....


Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
The Benedictus , given in Gospel of , is one of the three canticles in the opening chapters of this Gospel. The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the birth of his son, John the Baptist.The whole canticle naturally falls into two parts...

Novello
35 1897-98 Caractacus choral cantata for soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra H.M. Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

H. A. Acworth Novello
36 1899 Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)
Enigma Variations
Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra , Op. 36, commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1898–1899. It is Elgar's best-known large-scale composition, for both the music itself and the...

orchestral Theme 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' Novello
37 1897-99 Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar...

song song-cycle for contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
1. "Sea-Slumber Song
Sea Slumber Song
"Sea Slumber Song" is a poem by the Hon. Roden Noel set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the first song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures.-Lyrics:The poem here is as sung in Sea Pictures....

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2. "In Haven (Capri)
In Haven
In Haven is a poem by Caroline Alice Elgar, probably best known in its musical setting as the second song composed by her husband Edward Elgar for his song-cycle Sea Pictures.- History :...

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3. "Sabbath Morning at Sea
Sabbath Morning at Sea
"Sabbath Morning at Sea" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the third song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures. It was first published by Browning in 1839.-Lyrics:...

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4. "Where Corals Lie
Where Corals Lie
"Where Corals Lie" is a poem by Richard Garnett which was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the fourth song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures...

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5. "The Swimmer
The Swimmer
"The Swimmer" a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Originally conceived as a novel and pared down from over 150 pages of notes, it is probably Cheever's most famous and frequently anthologized story...

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Boosey
37.1 1899 "Sea-Slumber Song
Sea Slumber Song
"Sea Slumber Song" is a poem by the Hon. Roden Noel set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the first song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures.-Lyrics:The poem here is as sung in Sea Pictures....

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song from Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar...


contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Hon. Roden Noel
Roden Noel
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, also known as Noël , was an English poet.The son of Charles Noel, Lord Barham, afterwards 1st Earl of Gainsborough, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his M.A. in 1858. He then spent two years travelling in the East...

Boosey
37.2 1899 "In Haven (Capri)
In Haven
In Haven is a poem by Caroline Alice Elgar, probably best known in its musical setting as the second song composed by her husband Edward Elgar for his song-cycle Sea Pictures.- History :...

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song from Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar...


contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
pub. 1897 as Love alone will stay
Love alone will stay
" Love alone will stay" is a poem by Caroline Alice Elgar, set to music for voice and piano by her husband, the English composer Edward Elgar, in 1897....

C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Boosey
37.3 1899 "Sabbath Morning at Sea
Sabbath Morning at Sea
"Sabbath Morning at Sea" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the third song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures. It was first published by Browning in 1839.-Lyrics:...

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song from Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar...


contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members...

Boosey
37.4 1899 "Where Corals Lie
Where Corals Lie
"Where Corals Lie" is a poem by Richard Garnett which was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the fourth song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures...

"
song from Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar...


contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum....

Boosey
37.5 1899 "The Swimmer
The Swimmer
"The Swimmer" a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Originally conceived as a novel and pared down from over 150 pages of notes, it is probably Cheever's most famous and frequently anthologized story...

"
song from Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar...


contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.- Early life :Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad...

Boosey
38 1899–1900 The Dream of Gerontius
The Dream of Gerontius
The Dream of Gerontius, popularly called just Gerontius, 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 of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory...

choral for mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra A.M.D.G.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or ad majorem Dei gloriam, also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG, is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus, a religious order within the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church...

Cardinal Newman Novello
39 1901-30 Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
The "Pomp and Circumstance Marches" , Op. 39 are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar....

orchestral 1. in D (1901)
2. in A minor (1901)
3. in C minor (1904)
4. in G (1907)
5. in C (1930)
6. sketches
39.1 1901 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D orchestral the trio contains the tune known as Land of Hope and Glory
Land of Hope and Glory
"Land of Hope and Glory" is a British patriotic song, with music by Edward Elgar and lyrics by A. C. Benson, written in 1902.- Composition :...

A. E. Rodewald
Rodewald Concert Society
The Rodewald Concert Society is a promoter of chamber music in the Liverpool and Merseyside area of England. The Society was established in 1911, in memory of Alfred E Rodewald , a well-respected amateur conductor in Liverpool, and close friend of Edward Elgar who dedicated the first of his Pomp...

 and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society
Boosey
39.2 1901 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2 in A minor orchestral Granville Bantock
Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...

Boosey
39.3 1904 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 3 in C minor orchestral Ivor Atkins
Ivor Atkins
Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral for over 50 years . He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble...

Boosey
39.4 1907 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G orchestral in 1940 set to words by A. P. Herbert
A. P. Herbert
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist...

 as Song of Liberty
Song of Liberty
"Song of Liberty" is a British patriotic song which became popular during the Second World War.The song was set to the music of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4. It followed the success of Land of Hope and Glory, another patriotic song with lyrics by A. C. Benson set to Elgar's Pomp...

G. R. Sinclair Boosey
39.5 1930 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C orchestral Dr. Percy C. Hull
Percy Hull
Sir Percy Clarke Hull was an English organist and composer who revived the Three Choirs Festival during his time as organist of Hereford Cathedral from 1918 to 1949...

, Hereford
Boosey
39.6 1930 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6 in G minor orchestral "elaborated" from sketches by Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne...

, 2006
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40 1900-01 Cockaigne (In London Town)
Cockaigne (In London Town)
Cockaigne , Op. 40, also known as the Cockaigne Overture, is a concert overture for full orchestra composed by the British composer Edward Elgar in 1900-01.-History:...

orchestral concert-overture 'My friends, the Members of British Orchestras' Boosey
41 1901 Two songs song 1. "In the Dawn
In the Dawn
”In the Dawn” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901 as his Op.41, No.1.The words are from the poem “The Professor” by Arthur Christopher Benson....

"
2. "Speak, Music!"
41.1 1901 "In the Dawn
In the Dawn
”In the Dawn” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901 as his Op.41, No.1.The words are from the poem “The Professor” by Arthur Christopher Benson....

"
song voice and piano Arthur Christopher Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge....

Boosey
41.2 1901 "Speak, Music!" song voice and piano Mrs E. Speyer, Ridghurst Arthur Christopher Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge....

Boosey
42 1901 Grania and Diarmid
Diarmuid and Grania
Diarmuid and Grania is a play in poetic prose co-written by George Moore and W. B. Yeats in 1901, with incidental music by the English composer Edward Elgar.-Play:...

incidental for a play by George Moore
George Moore (novelist)
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s...

 and W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

,
for orchestra and contralto soloist
1. Incidental Music and Funeral March
2. Song, "There are seven that pull the thread
There are seven that pull the thread
”There are seven that pull the thread” is a song with words by W. B. Yeats, and music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901.The song is from Act I of a play Grania and Diarmid co-written in poetic prose by Yeats and the Irish novelist George Moore. This song and the incidental music...

"
Henry J. Wood Novello
42.1 1901 Incidental Music and Funeral March incidental music for orchestra,
for a play Grania and Diarmid
Diarmuid and Grania
Diarmuid and Grania is a play in poetic prose co-written by George Moore and W. B. Yeats in 1901, with incidental music by the English composer Edward Elgar.-Play:...

 by George Moore
George Moore (novelist)
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s...

 and W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

Henry J. Wood Novello
42.2 1901 "There are seven that pull the thread
There are seven that pull the thread
”There are seven that pull the thread” is a song with words by W. B. Yeats, and music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901.The song is from Act I of a play Grania and Diarmid co-written in poetic prose by Yeats and the Irish novelist George Moore. This song and the incidental music...

"
song for contralto soloist and orchestra,
for a play Grania and Diarmid
Diarmuid and Grania
Diarmuid and Grania is a play in poetic prose co-written by George Moore and W. B. Yeats in 1901, with incidental music by the English composer Edward Elgar.-Play:...

 by George Moore
George Moore (novelist)
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s...

 and W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

Henry J. Wood W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

Novello
43 1902 Dream Children
Dream Children (Elgar)
Dream Children, Op 43 is a musical work for small orchestra by Sir Edward Elgar. There are two movements:- History :These two pieces were written in 1902, when Elgar was approaching the peak of his fame and popularity. Unusually for Elgar they were not written to any commission...

orchestral Enfants d'un Rêve
two pieces for small orchestra,
after Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb . Lamb has been referred to by E.V...

,
also for piano
1. Andante
2. Allegretto piacevole
Joseph Williams,
Schott
44 1902 Coronation Ode
Coronation Ode
Coronation Ode, Op 44 is a work composed by Sir Edward Elgar for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra, with words by A. C. Benson....

choral for 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
Land of Hope and Glory
"Land of Hope and Glory" is a British patriotic song, with music by Edward Elgar and lyrics by A. C. Benson, written in 1902.- Composition :...

", for contralto solo, with chorus (separate song 1902)
H.M. King Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

Arthur Christopher Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge....

Boosey
45 1902 Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology part-song TTBB,
words tr. from the Greek Anthology
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...


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 Parratt
Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

Novello
45.1 1902 "Yea, cast me from height of the mountains" part-song TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...

 (anon.)
Sir Walter Parratt
Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

Alma Strettell Novello
45.2 1902 "Whether I find thee" part-song TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...

 (anon.)
Sir Walter Parratt
Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.- Biography :Lang was born in Selkirk...

Novello
45.3 1902 "After many a dusty mile" part-song TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...

 (anon.)
Sir Walter Parratt
Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

Edmund Gosse
Edmund Gosse
Sir Edmund William Gosse CB was an English poet, author and critic; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.-Early life:...

Novello
45.4 1902 "It's oh! to be a wild wind" part-song TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...

 (anon.)
Sir Walter Parratt
Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

William M. Hardinge Novello
45.5 1902 "Feasting I watch" part-song TTBB, words tr. from poem by Marcus Argentarius
Marcus Argentarius
Marcus Argentarius , the author of about thirty epigrams in the Greek Anthology, most of which are erotic, and some are plays on words. We may infer from his style that he did not live before the time of the Roman empire, but nothing more is known of his age....

Sir Walter Parratt
Walter Parratt
Sir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...

Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum....

Novello
46 1901 Concert Allegro
Concert Allegro (Elgar)
The Concert Allegro, Op. 46 by Sir Edward Elgar is a piece of music for solo piano. It takes about 10 minutes to perform. It is the only piano work he wrote that was designed for concert performance...

concertante for piano, orchestra part possibly added Written for Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies was an English pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin...

?
47 1904-05 Introduction and Allegro
Introduction and Allegro (Elgar)
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 Symphony Orchestra. Scored for string quartet and string orchestra, Elgar composed it to show off the players' virtuosity. Though initial critical...

orchestral for Strings (Quartet and Orchestra) Prof. S. S. Sanford
Samuel Sanford
Samuel Simons Sanford was an American pianist and educator.He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He studied piano in New York with William Mason...

,
Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

Novello
48 1908 "Pleading
Pleading (Elgar)
"Pleading" is a poem written by Arthur L. Salmon, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1908, as his Op.48.This is one of the most popular of Elgar's songs. Elgar had returned home at the end of September 1908, feeling depressed after taking the score of his first Symphony to the...

"
song voice and piano,
pub. as Op. 48, No. 1, but no other Op. 48 works exist
Lady Maud Warrender Arthur L. Salmon Novello
49 1902-03 The Apostles
The Apostles (Elgar)
The Apostles, Op. 49, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed on 14 October 1903.-Overview:...

choral oratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor and three bass soloists, chorus and orchestra,
compiled from the Scriptures by the composer
A.M.D.G.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or ad majorem Dei gloriam, also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG, is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus, a religious order within the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church...

The Holy Scriptures
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

Novello
50 1903-04 In the South (Alassio)
In the South (Alassio)
In the South , Op. 50, is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar during a family holiday in Italy in the winter of 1903 to 1904.The work is dedicated "To my friend Leo F. Schuster".- History :...

orchestral concert-overture Leo F. Schuster
Leo Frank Schuster
Leo Frank Schuster , was a patron of the arts in the United Kingdom, normally known to his friends as "Frankie". His home at 22 Old Queen Street, London, became a meeting-place for artists, writers and musicians, including Siegfried Sassoon, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, Sir Edward Elgar...

Novello
51 1901-06 The Kingdom
The Kingdom (Elgar)
The Kingdom, Op. 51, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar.It was first performed at the Birmingham Music Festival on 3 October 1906, with the orchestra conducted by the composer, and soloists Agnes Nicholls, Muriel Foster, John Coates and William Higley. The...

choral oratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra,
compiled from the Scriptures by the composer
A.M.D.G.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or ad majorem Dei gloriam, also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG, is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus, a religious order within the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church...

The Holy Scriptures
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

Novello
52 1907 "A Christmas Greeting" song carol for 2 sopranos, male chorus ad lib, 2 violins and piano Dr. G. R. Sinclair and the choristers of Hereford Cathedral C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Novello
53 1907 Four part-songs part-song SATB unacc.
1. "There is sweet Music"
2. "Deep in my Soul"
3. "O Wild West Wind"
4. "Owls (An Epitaph)"
Novello
53.1 1907 "There is sweet Music" part-song part-song SSAATTBB unacc. Canon Gorton Lord Tennyson Novello
53.2 1907 "Deep in my Soul" part-song SATB unacc. Julia H. Worthington Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS , commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement...

Novello
53.3 1907 "O Wild West Wind" part-song SATB unacc. Dr. W. G. McNaught Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

Novello
53.4 1907 "Owls (An Epitaph)" part-song SATB unacc.,
words probably by the composer
Pietro d'Alba Novello
Novello 54 1907 "The Reveille" part-song TTBB unacc. Henry C. Embleton Bret Harte
Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.- Life and career :...

Novello
55 1907-08 Symphony No. 1 in A flat
Symphony No. 1 (Elgar)
Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 55 is one of his two completed symphonies. The first performance was given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter in Manchester, England, on 3 December 1908. It was widely known that Elgar had been planning a symphony for more than...

orchestral Hans Richter
Hans Richter (conductor)
Hans Richter was an Austrian orchestral and operatic conductor.-Biography:Richter was born in Raab , Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was opera-singer Jozsefa Csazenszky. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory...

, Mus. Doc.
Novello
56 1909 "Angelus (Tuscany)" part-song SATB unacc., words adapted from the Tuscan Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley (Alice Stuart-Wortley) Tuscan dialect Novello
57 1909 "Go, Song of Mine" part-song SSAATB unacc., tr. from Cavalcanti
Guido Cavalcanti
Guido Cavalcanti was a Florentine poet, as well as an intellectual influence on his best friend, Dante. His poems in their original Italian are available on Wikisource .-Historical background:...

Alfred H. Littleton Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...

Novello
58 1909 Elegy orchestral string orchestra Novello
59 1910 Three songs song 3. Oh, soft was the song
Oh, soft was the song
"Oh, soft was the song" is a song with words by Gilbert Parker set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1910, as his Op. 59, No. 3. It is the second and last verse of a poem "At Sea" which Parker published in Volume I of a series of poems called "Embers"...


5. "Was it some Golden Star?
Was it some Golden Star?
"Was it some Golden Star?" is a poem written by Gilbert Parker, published in Volume I of a series of poems called "Embers". It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1910, as his Op. 59, No. 5....

"
6. "Twilight
Twilight (Elgar)
"Twilight" is a song with music by the English composer Edward Elgar written in 1910 as his Op. 59, No. 6. Elgar set the words of the poem "The Twilight of Love", from Volume 2 of a series of poems called "Embers" by Sir Gilbert Parker....

"
Gilbert Parker
59.3 1910 "Oh, soft was the song
Oh, soft was the song
"Oh, soft was the song" is a song with words by Gilbert Parker set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1910, as his Op. 59, No. 3. It is the second and last verse of a poem "At Sea" which Parker published in Volume I of a series of poems called "Embers"...

"
song mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

 and piano or orchestra
Gilbert Parker Novello
59.5 1910 "Was it some Golden Star?
Was it some Golden Star?
"Was it some Golden Star?" is a poem written by Gilbert Parker, published in Volume I of a series of poems called "Embers". It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1910, as his Op. 59, No. 5....

"
song mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

 and piano or orchestra
Gilbert Parker Novello
59.6 1910 "Twilight
Twilight (Elgar)
"Twilight" is a song with music by the English composer Edward Elgar written in 1910 as his Op. 59, No. 6. Elgar set the words of the poem "The Twilight of Love", from Volume 2 of a series of poems called "Embers" by Sir Gilbert Parker....

"
song mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

 and piano or orchestra
Gilbert Parker Novello
60 1909-10 Two songs song 1. "The Torch
The Torch (Elgar)
"The Torch" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909 as his Op.60, No.1.The manuscript is dated 23 December 1909.On the title-page, the song is dedicated "To YVONNE", and it is described as a "Folk-Song , paraphrased by Pietro d’Alba and Edward Elgar".It was one of a set of a...

"
2. "The River
The River (Elgar)
"The River" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909 as his Op.60, No.2.On the title-page it is described as a "Folk-Song , paraphrased by Pietro d’Alba and Edward Elgar"....

"
Pietro d'Alba
60.1 1909 "The Torch
The Torch (Elgar)
"The Torch" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909 as his Op.60, No.1.The manuscript is dated 23 December 1909.On the title-page, the song is dedicated "To YVONNE", and it is described as a "Folk-Song , paraphrased by Pietro d’Alba and Edward Elgar".It was one of a set of a...

"
song mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

 and piano or orchestra
Yvonne Pietro d'Alba Novello
60.2 1910 "The River
The River (Elgar)
"The River" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909 as his Op.60, No.2.On the title-page it is described as a "Folk-Song , paraphrased by Pietro d’Alba and Edward Elgar"....

"
song mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

 and piano or orchestra
'Folk-Song (Eastern Europe) paraphrased by Pietro d'Alba'
Pietro d'Alba Novello
61 1901-10 Violin Concerto in B minor
Violin Concerto (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular success....

concertante violin and orchestra Fritz Kreisler
Fritz Kreisler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...

Novello
62 1910 Romance concertante bassoon and orchestra Edwin F. James Novello
63 1909-11 Symphony No. 2 in E flat
Symphony No. 2 (Elgar)
Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 2 in E major, Op. 63, was completed on 28 February 1911 and was premiered at the London Musical Festival at the Queen's Hall by the Queen's Hall Orchestra on 24 May 1911 with the composer conducting...

orchestral In memory of H.M. King Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

Novello
64 1911 "O Hearken Thou" church Coronation Offertorium "Intende voci orationis meæ", for choir and orchestra, for the Coronation of King George V H.M. King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

Psalm 5
Psalm 5
Psalm 5 is the 5th psalm from the Book of Psalms. Its authorship is traditionally assigned to king David. It is a reflection of how the righteous man prays for deliverance not only for freedom from suffering, but to allow himself to be able to serve God without distraction....

Novello
65 1911 Coronation March orchestral H.M. King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

Novello
66 1911-12 The Crown of India
The Crown of India
The Crown of India, was a masque, an elaborate theatrical presentation, staged in 1912 to celebrate the visit the preceding December of King George V and Queen Mary to Delhi for their coronation as Emperor and Empress of India. For this masque, the English composer Edward Elgar wrote the music as...

incidental Imperial 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 Hamilton Enoch
67 1912 "Great is the Lord" church anthem, choir SSAATB, bass solo, and organ Dean of Wells
Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who lives at the adjacent Bishop's Palace....

,
J. Armitage Robinson
Armitage Robinson
Joseph Armitage Robinson KCVO was a priest in the Church of England and scholar. He was successively Dean of Westminster and of Wells . He was educated at Liverpool College and Christ's College, Cambridge of which he became a Fellow...

, D.D.
Psalm 48
Psalm 48
Psalm 48 is the 48th psalm of the Book of Psalms, composed by sons of Korah.-Judaism:*Is the psalm of the day in the Shir Shel Yom for Monday.*Verse 2 is part of Mishnah Tamid 7:4.*Verse 12 is part of the blessings before the Shema....

Novello
68 1913 Falstaff
Falstaff (Elgar)
Falstaff – Symphonic Study 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 tradition of Franz Liszt and Richard Strauss...

orchestral symphonic study for orchestra,
after Shakespeare, King Henry IV and V
Landon Ronald
Landon Ronald
Sir Landon Ronald was an English conductor, composer, pianist, singing teacher and administrator...

Novello
69 1912 The Music Makers choral ode for contralto or mezzo-soprano soloist, chorus SATB and orchestra Nicholas Kilburn Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy was a British poet of Irish descent, born in London.-Biography:At the age of seventeen, in June 1861, Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum, reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton...

Novello
70 1914 Sospiri
Sospiri
Sospiri, Op. 70, is an adagio for string orchestra, harp and organ composed by Edward Elgar just before the beginning of World War I....

orchestral string orchestra, harp and organ (or harmonium) W. H. Reed
William Henry Reed
William Henry "Billy" Reed was an English violinist, teacher, minor composer, conductor and biographer of Sir Edward Elgar...

Breitkopf & Härtel
71 1914 Two part-songs part-song SATB unacc.
1. "The Shower"
2. "The Fountain"
71.1 1914 "The Shower" part-song SATB unacc. Miss Frances Smart Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...

Novello
71.2 1914 "The Fountain" part-song SATB unacc. W. Mann Dyson Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...

Novello
72 1914 "Death on the Hills" part-song choral-song SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov
Lady Colvin Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch was an English writer on music.-Biography:Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson was born in Leamington in 1857. She settled in London in 1880, when she began contributing articles to various literary journals. In 1883 she married Henry Charles Newmarch, thereafter using her married name in her...

Novello
73 1914 Two part-songs part-song SATB unacc.
1. "Love's Tempest"
2. "Serenade"
73.1 1914 "Love's Tempest" part-song SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov
Prof. C. Sanford Terry Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch was an English writer on music.-Biography:Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson was born in Leamington in 1857. She settled in London in 1880, when she began contributing articles to various literary journals. In 1883 she married Henry Charles Newmarch, thereafter using her married name in her...

Novello
73.2 1914 "Serenade" part-song SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov
Percy C. Hull
Percy Hull
Sir Percy Clarke Hull was an English organist and composer who revived the Three Choirs Festival during his time as organist of Hereford Cathedral from 1918 to 1949...

Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch
Rosa Newmarch was an English writer on music.-Biography:Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson was born in Leamington in 1857. She settled in London in 1880, when she began contributing articles to various literary journals. In 1883 she married Henry Charles Newmarch, thereafter using her married name in her...

Novello
74 1914 "Give unto the Lord" church anthem SATB, organ and orchestra Sir George Martin
George Clement Martin
Sir George Clement Martin MVO was an English organist, who served at St Paul's Cathedral.-Background:He was born in Lambourn, Berkshire on 11 September 1844. Footman's "History of Lambourn Church" describes him as "the only famous man to come from Lambourne"...

, M.V.O., Mus.D.
Psalm 29
Psalm 29
Psalm 29 is the 29th psalm from the Book of Psalms.-Judaism:*Is the sixth paragraph of Kabbalat Shabbat.*Is recited on Shabbat during Shacharit as when returning the Torah Scroll to the ark.*Is recited in some congregations before Maariv on Motzei Shabbat....

Novello
75 1914 Carillon
Carillon (Elgar)
”Carillon” is a recitation with orchestral accompaniment written by the English composer Edward Elgar as his Op. 75, in 1914. The words are by the Belgian poet Émile Cammaerts....

orchestral recitation with orchestra Émile Cammaerts
Émile Cammaerts
Émile Leon Cammaerts was a Belgian poet.He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, and his papers are held there in Senate House Library....

Elkin
76 1915 Polonia
Polonia (Elgar)
Polonia is a symphonic prelude by the English composer Edward Elgar written in 1915 as his Op. 76.-History:On 13 April 1915 the Polish conductor Emil Młynarski asked Elgar to compose something, thinking of how Elgar's Carillon had been a recent tribute to Belgium, but this time using Polish...

orchestral symphonic prelude I. J. Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...

Elkin
77 1915 Une voix dans le désert
Une voix dans le désert
”Une voix dans le désert" is a recitation, with a soprano soloist and orchestra, written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1915 as his Op. 77...

orchestral recitation with soprano solo and orchestra,
includes the song "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront
Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront
”Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront” is a song for solo soprano, part of a staged recitation with orchestra Une voix dans le désert written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1915...

" (When the spring comes round)
Émile Cammaerts
Émile Cammaerts
Émile Leon Cammaerts was a Belgian poet.He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, and his papers are held there in Senate House Library....

Elkin
78 1915-16 The Starlight Express
The Starlight Express
"The Starlight Express" is a children's play by Violet Pearn, based on the imaginative novel "A Prisoner in Fairyland" by Algernon Blackwood, with songs and incidental music written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1915.- Production :...

incidental baritone 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 Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...

Elkin
79 1917 Le drapeau belge
Le drapeau belge
”Le drapeau belge” is a recitation with orchestral accompaniment written by the English composer Edward Elgar as his Op. 79, in 1917...

 (The Belgian Flag)
orchestral recitation with orchestra, tr. Lord Curzon of Kedleston
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC , known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary...

Émile Cammaerts
Émile Cammaerts
Émile Leon Cammaerts was a Belgian poet.He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, and his papers are held there in Senate House Library....

Elkin
80 1915-17 The Spirit of England choral soprano and contralto or tenor soloists, 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'
80.1 1917 The Fourth of August choral soprano and contralto or tenor soloists, chorus and orchestra,
from The Winnowing Fan by Binyon
Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....

Novello
80.2 1915 To Women choral soprano and contralto or tenor soloists, chorus and orchestra Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....

Novello
80.3 1915 For the Fallen choral soprano and contralto or tenor soloists, chorus and orchestra Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....

Novello
80.3 1920 With Proud Thanksgiving choral soprano soloist, chorus SATB and orchestra,
a simpler version of For the Fallen, for the dedication of the Cenotaph
League of Arts Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....

Novello
81 1917 The Sanguine Fan
The Sanguine Fan
The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81, is a single-act ballet written by Sir Edward Elgar in 1917. It was one of the pieces he composed to raise money for wartime charities, having been asked to write it by his close friend and confidante Lady Alice Stuart-Wortley....

ballet ballet music for orchestra. Echo's Dance arranged for piano MS
81 1917 Echo's Dance arrangement from The Sanguine Fan
The Sanguine Fan
The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81, is a single-act ballet written by Sir Edward Elgar in 1917. It was one of the pieces he composed to raise money for wartime charities, having been asked to write it by his close friend and confidante Lady Alice Stuart-Wortley....

, Op. 81, arranged for piano
Elkin
82 1918 Violin Sonata in E minor
Violin Sonata (Elgar)
Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, in 1918, at the same time as he wrote his String Quartet in E minor and his Piano Quintet in A minor...

chamber violin and piano 'M. J. -1918'
(Marie Joshua)
Novello
83 1918 String Quartet in E minor
String Quartet (Elgar)
The String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, was one of three major chamber music works composed by Sir Edward Elgar in 1918. The others were the Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82, and the Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84. Along with the Cello Concerto in E minor, Op...

chamber string quartet Brodsky Quartet Novello
84 1918-19 Piano Quintet in A minor
Piano Quintet (Elgar)
The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op. 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar.He worked on the Quintet and two other major chamber pieces in the summer of 1918 while staying at Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex. W. H...

chamber string quartet and piano Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman was an English music critic and musicologist. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century." His style of criticism, aiming at intellectual objectivity in contrast to the more subjective...

Novello
85 1918-19 Cello Concerto in E minor
Cello Concerto (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, by which time his music had gone out of fashion with the concert-going public...

concertante cello and orchestra Sidney and Frances Colvin
Sidney Colvin
Sidney Colvin was an English curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family. He is primarily remembered for his friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson.-Biography:...

Novello
86 1921-22 Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
(J. S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

)
arrangement transcription for orchestra, Fantasia 1921, Fugue 1922 Novello
87 1930 The Severn Suite
The Severn Suite
The Severn Suite, Opus 87, is a musical work written by Sir Edward Elgar. It is a late composition, written in 1930, the result of an invitation to write a test piece for the National Brass Band Championship...

brass band transcribed for orchestra (1932))
1. Introduction (Worcester Castle)
2. Toccata (Tournament)
3. Fugue (The Cathedral) (1923)
4. Minuet (Commandery)
5. Coda
G. Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

R Smith
87a 1933 Organ Sonata No. 2 keyboard arrangement of The Severn Suite
The Severn Suite
The Severn Suite, Opus 87, is a musical work written by Sir Edward Elgar. It is a late composition, written in 1930, the result of an invitation to write a test piece for the National Brass Band Championship...

 for organ by Ivor Atkins
Ivor Atkins
Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral for over 50 years . He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble...

Keith Prowse
88 1932-34 Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 3 (Elgar)
Edward Elgar's Third Symphony was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as "Edward Elgar: the sketches for Symphony No 3 elaborated by...

orchestral posth. Op. 88,
sketches, elaborated by Anthony Payne 1972-97
?
89 1933 The Spanish Lady opera libretto by Elgar and Sir Barry Jackson
Barry Vincent Jackson
Sir Barry Vincent Jackson, , was a distinguished theatre director and the founder of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.-Life and career:He was the son of George Jackson of Birmingham and was educated privately....

 after Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

, planned in two acts but incomplete, posth. Suite for string orchestra ed. Percy M. Young
Percy M. Young
Percy Marshall Young was a British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher.Young was born in Northwich, Cheshire. From 1934 to 1937 he was a Director of Music at Stranmillis Teacher Training College in Belfast. From 1937 to 1944, Young was a Musical Adviser to...


songs:1. "Modest and Fair"
2. "Still to be Neat"
also suite for strings ed. Young
Percy M. Young
Percy Marshall Young was a British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher.Young was born in Northwich, Cheshire. From 1934 to 1937 he was a Director of Music at Stranmillis Teacher Training College in Belfast. From 1937 to 1944, Young was a Musical Adviser to...

 (1956)
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

Elkin
90 1909-25 Piano Concerto concertante piano and orchestra,
posth. Op. 90,
sketches, 1909–25, elaborated by Robert Walker 1997
?
1001 1919 The Smoking Cantata song baritone soloist and orchestra ?
1867 Humoreske 'a tune from Broadheath' piano later used for Fairies and Giants in The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1, see Op. 1a
1867 The Wand of Youth incidental music for a children’s play,
assembled as two orchestral suites in 1907, see Op. 1a and Op. 1b
1868 Kyrie Eleison in A church choir SATB
1870 Fugue in G minor keyboard for organ [?], c. 1870, unfinished
1872 "The Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers
"The Language of Flowers" is a song from a poem by the American poet and botanist James Gates Percival, with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar, when he was only fourteen years old. It is dated 29 May 1872, inscribed "by Edward W...

"
song voice and piano, unpub. 'The Music composed & dedicated to my sister Lucy' The Poetry by Percival
James Gates Percival
James Gates Percival was an American poet and geologist, born in Berlin, Connecticut and died in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.-Biography:...

MS
1872 Chantant keyboard piano solo MS
1872 Gloria church for choir and organ, arr. of the Allegro from Violin Sonata in F, K.547
(Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

) as a Gloria
MS
1873 Credo arrangement choir and organ, themes from Symphonies V VII and IX (Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

)
"arr. Bernard Pappenheim" [comment by Elgar]
MS
1874 Anthem arrangement arr. for strings, with original introduction MS
1875 "The Self Banished
The Self Banished
"The Self Banished" is a poem written by Edmund Waller in about 1645, and is one of the first songs written by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was written in 1875, and specifically for “soprano or tenor”...

"
song soprano or tenor acc. piano, unpub. Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...

MS
1876 Salve Regina church in D, choir and organ MS
1876 Tantum Ergo church in D, choir and organ Eucharistic hymn MS
1877 "O Salutaris Hostia" church in G, bass solo and organ O Salutaris Hostia
O Salutaris Hostia
O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the...

MS
1877 Credo in E minor church choir and organ Nicene Creed
Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed is the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Nicaea by the first ecumenical council, which met there in the year 325.The Nicene Creed has been normative to the...

MS
1877 Gloria church choir SATB and organ MS
1877 Kyrie church choir STB MS
1877 Five well-known pieces arrangement arr. as studies for the violin, at the suggestion of Adolphe Pollitzer
Adolf Pollitzer
Adolf Pollitzer, also Adolph Pollitzer was a Hungarian Jewish violinist.In 1842, he left Budapest for Vienna, where he studied the violin under Joseph Böhm at the Vienna Conservatory; and in his 14th year he took the first prize at the Conservatory. After a concert tour in Germany, he went to...


1. Larghetto (Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

)
2. Cavatina (Raff
Joachim Raff
Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...

)
3. Romance (de Bériot
Charles de Bériot
Charles Auguste de Bériot was a Belgian violinist and composer.-Biography:Born in Leuven, where there is now a street named in his honour, he moved to France in 1810, where he studied violin with Jean-François Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti...

)
4. Romance (Vieuxtemps
Henri Vieuxtemps
Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century....

)
5. Gigue (Ries
Franz Ries
Franz Ries was a Romantic German violinist and composer, son of Hubert Ries. He studied at the Paris Conservatory...

)
Schott
1877 Peckham March chamber Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
see also Op. 6.1 — Op. 6.6
MS
1877 Reminiscences chamber violin and piano MS
1878 Adeste Fideles
Adeste Fideles
"Adeste Fideles" is a hymn tune attributed to English hymnist John Francis Wade . The text itself has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in the 13th century by John of Reading, though it has been concluded that Wade was probably the author.The original four verses of the hymn were...


(John F. Wade)
arrangement arr. for orchestra MS
1878 Violin Sonata Op. 23, finale
(Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

)
arrangement arr. for wind quintet MS
1878 Concerto X
(Corelli
Arcangelo Corelli
Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music.-Biography:Corelli was born at Fusignano, in the current-day province of Ravenna, although at the time it was in the province of Ferrara. Little is known about his early life...

)
arrangement arr. for wind quintet MS
1878 Ariodante overture
(Handel
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

)
arrangement arr. for small orchestra MS
1878 O ‘tis a glorious night from Oberon
(Weber
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

)
arrangement arr. for small orchestra F. G. Pedley MS
1878 Fantasia chamber violin and piano, unfinished MS
1878 Fugue in D minor chamber oboe and violin Frank Elgar and Karl Bammert MS
1878 String Quartet in D chamber unfinished MS
1878 String Quartet in B chamber unfinished MS
1878 String Trio in C chamber unfinished MS
1878 Trio chamber 2 violins and piano, unfinished MS
1878 Allegro chamber oboe, violin, viola and cello, unfinished MS
1878 Menuetto (Scherzo) chamber re-copied 1930 MS
1878 Symphony in G minor after Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

orchestral part of first movement exists MS
1878 Introductory Overture for Christy Minstrels orchestral MS
1878 "Brother, For Thee He Died" (Easter Anthem) church choir and organ MS
1878 "Praise ye the Lord" church hymn tune, revised as Good Morrow
1878 "Now with the fast departing light" church hymn tune MS
1878 "Hear Thy children" church hymn tune in F, choir and organ, pub. 1896 as Drakes Boughton in Westminster Hymnal, and Parish Hymn Book (Nos. 189/190), also used in Nursery Suite (Aubade) Francis Stanfield Cary
1878 "If She Love Me" (Temple Bar Rondeau) song voice and piano MS
1879 "Domine Salvam fac" church motet, choir and organ Latin hymn MS
1879-84 Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 Music
orchestral for asylum band:
1. La Brunette (1879)
2. Die Junge Kokette (1879)
3. L'Assomoir (1879)
4. The Valentine (1889)
5. Maud (1880)
6. Paris (1880)
7. Nelly (1881)
8. La Blonde (1882)
9. Helcia (1883)
10. Blumine (1884)
MS
1879 La Brunette orchestral 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
Geo. Jenkins Esq. MS
1879 Die Junge Kokette orchestral 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
Miss J. Holloway MS
1879 Two Polonaises chamber violin and piano, unfinished J. K. MS
1879 L'Assomoir orchestral 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
MS
1879 The Valentine orchestral set of Lancers for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
MS
1879 Minuet-grazioso orchestral lost or destroyed
1880 Maud orchestral polka for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
MS
1880 Paris orchestral 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
1. Châtelet
Théâtre du Châtelet
The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.One of two theatres built on the site of a châtelet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and...


2. L'Hippodrome
3. Alcazar d'Été
Alcazar d'Été
The Alcazar d'Été was a Café-concert which opened in 1860, located on the Champs-Élysées at 8 Avenue Gabriel in Paris, and closed in 1914.The old Café Morel behind the Élysée Palace was acquired in 1869 by Arsène Goubert who at the time was owner of the "Alcazar" at 10 Rue du Faubourg Poissonière. ...

 (Champs-Élysées
Champs-Élysées
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is a prestigious avenue in Paris, France. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and clipped horse-chestnut trees, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets and one of the most expensive strip of real estate in the world. The name is...

)
4. La! Suzanne
5. Café des Ambassadeurs: "La femme de l'emballeur"
Miss J. Holloway, Powycke MS
1880 Violin Sonata in F, K.547
(Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

)
arrangement arr. as Gloria MS
1880 "O Salutaris Hostia" church in F, choir and organ O Salutaris Hostia
O Salutaris Hostia
O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the...

MS
1880 "O Salutaris Hostia" church in E-flat, choir and organ O Salutaris Hostia
O Salutaris Hostia
O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the...

MS
1881 Fantasy on Irish Airs chamber violin and piano, unfinished MS
1881 Fugue in F# minor chamber incomplete - later copied for The Spanish Lady MS
1881 Nelly orchestral polka for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, 1st & 2nd violins, viola, cello, double bass and piano
Fras. Thos. Elgar MS
1882 La Blonde orchestral polka for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, clarinet, 2 cornets, trombone, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
'H. J. W.' (Helen Weaver) MS
1882 Douce Pensée chamber violin, cello and piano,
pub. 1915 as Rosemary
MS
1882 Suite in D orchestral 1. 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" church in E-flat, bass solo and organ O Salutaris Hostia
O Salutaris Hostia
O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the...

MS
1882 Benedictus in G church for choir, organ and strings MS
1882 Four Litanies for the Blessed Virgin Mary church choir unacc. Fr. T. Knight, S.J.
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

, Worcester
Cary
1882 Air de Ballet - Pastorale orchestral perf. Worcester MS
1882 Marche - Pas Redoublé orchestral perf. Worcester Marche incorporated into The Spanish Lady and Suite in D MS
1882 Air de Ballet orchestral perf. Worcester MS
1883 Scherzo
(Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

)
arrangement arr. Scherzo from Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52,
for piano solo
MS
1883 Entry of the Minstrels from Tannhaüser Act III,
(Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

)
arrangement for piano MS
1883 Helcia orchestral polka for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
piccolo, clarinet, 2 cornets, 1st & 2nd violins, viola, cello, double bass and piano
MS
1884 Blumine orchestral polka for Powick Asylum
Powick Hospital
Powick Hospital was a psychiatric facility located on outside the village of Powick, Worcestershire. Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects John R. Hamilton & James Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852...

 band:
flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, 1st & 2nd violins, cello, double bass and piano
MS
1884 Griffinesque keyboard piano, pub. posth. by Novello Novello
1884 "A Soldier’s Song" song see "A War Song", Op. 5.1
1885 "Clapham Town End
Clapham Town End
”Clapham Town End” is an old Yorkshire folk song which was harmonised by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1890.Elgar arranged the song for his friend Dr. Charles W. Buck. It is for voice with piano accompaniment...

"
song low voice and piano,
arrangement of an old Yorkshire 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],
for Dr. C. W. Buck
trad. Young
Percy M. Young
Percy Marshall Young was a British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher.Young was born in Northwich, Cheshire. From 1934 to 1937 he was a Director of Music at Stranmillis Teacher Training College in Belfast. From 1937 to 1944, Young was a Musical Adviser to...

1885 "Clapham Town End
Clapham Town End
”Clapham Town End” is an old Yorkshire folk song which was harmonised by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1890.Elgar arranged the song for his friend Dr. Charles W. Buck. It is for voice with piano accompaniment...

"
arrangement see Clapham Town End, song
1885 Gavotte chamber violin and piano Dr. C. W. Buck, Settle
Settle
Settle is a small market town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is served by the Settle railway station, which is located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away. It is from Leeds Bradford Airport...

Schott
1885 Absent and Present
(Maude Valérie White
Maude Valerie White
Maude Valérie White was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters of the Victorian period.-Early years:...

)
arrangement cello obbligato, end note - "Lobster cutlets! Oh!!!!!!" [comment by Elgar] MS
1885 Out on the Rocks
(C. H. Dolby)
arrangement cello obbligato MS
1885 Melody
(C. W. Buck)
arrangement piano accompaniment for cello MS
1885 The Lakes overture orchestral MS lost
1885 Scottish Overture orchestral MS lost
1886 Berceuse,
(G. F. Blackbourne)
arrangement violin and piano, pub. 1907 MS
1886 "Is she not passing fair?
Is she not passing fair?
"Is she not passing fair?" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar.It was completed on 28 October 1886, but not published until 1908, by Boosey & Co....

"
song pub. 1908, Lay
Lai
A lai is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.Lais were mainly composed in France and Germany, during the 13th and 14th centuries. A Provençal term for a similar kind of poem is descort.The English term lay is a...

, tr. from poem by Charles, Duke of Orléans (1391-1466)
Louisa Stuart Costello
Louisa Stuart Costello
Louisa Stuart Costello was a writer on travel and French history.Costello was born in Ireland or Sussex.She resided in Paris, France, near the Seine River ....

 
Boosey
1886 Trio chamber violin, cello and piano, fragment only of first movement, "Sans" MS
1886 Enina Valse keyboard piano,
dated Malvern Wells 21 Dec 1886
MS
1887 Duett for trombone and double bass
Duett for trombone and double bass
Duett for trombone and double bass is a musical work by the English composer Edward Elgar.The duet was composed as wedding gift to Frank Weaver, a brother of Helen Weaver to whom the composer had been engaged some four years earlier, and presented to him on 1 August 1887, when he married Fannie Jones...

chamber trombone and double bass,
pub. 1970, ed. Rodney Slatford
Frank William Weaver, on his wedding-day Yorke
1888 "As I laye a-thynkynge
As I laye a-thynkynge
"As I laye a-thynkynge" is the last poem written by "Thomas Ingoldsby" . It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar.The song was published in 1888 by Beare & Son, though may have been written in the previous year...

"
song voice and piano,
the last lines of Thomas Ingoldsby
Richard Harris Barham
Richard Harris Barham was an English cleric of the Church of England, novelist, and humorous poet. He was known better by his nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby.-Life:Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury...

Thomas Ingoldsby
Richard Harris Barham
Richard Harris Barham was an English cleric of the Church of England, novelist, and humorous poet. He was known better by his nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby.-Life:Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury...

Beare
1888 "The Wind at Dawn
The Wind at Dawn
"The Wind at Dawn" is a poem set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1888. The poem was written in 1880 by Caroline Alice Roberts, before she had met Elgar, though they were married in the year after the song was written....

"
song voice and piano Dr. Ludwig Wüllner C. Alice Roberts
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

 (Elgar)
Boosey
1888 Allegretto on G.E.D.G.E. chamber violin and piano The Misses Gedge, Malvern Wells Schott
1888 "Ecce Sacerdos Magnus" church choir and organ Hubert Leicester, Worcester Liturgy
Ecce sacerdos magnus
Ecce sacerdos magnus is an antiphon and a responsory from the common of confessors in the Liturgy of the Hours and in the Graduale Romanum.Its words are, Ecce sacerdos magnus, qui in diebus suis, placuit Deo, which means, "behold the great priest, who in his days, pleased God".In certain cases,...

Cary
1888 "O Salutaris Hostia" church choir, written 1880 O Salutaris Hostia
O Salutaris Hostia
O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the...

Cary
1888 Liebesgruss chamber see Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
1889 Liebesahnung chamber see Mot d'Amour, Op. 13.1
1889 "Queen Mary's Song
Queen Mary's Song
”Queen Mary's Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are from Lute Song by Tennyson.It was composed between 14 June and 1 July 1889, and dedicated to 'J. H. Meredith'....

"
song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

J. H. Meredith Alfred Tennyson Orsborn & Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
1889 Presto keyboard piano
1890 "Man" song voice and piano |—
1890 Violin Concerto concertante destroyed
1892 "A Song of Autumn
A Song of Autumn
"A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon set to music by Edward Elgar in 1892.It was dedicated to 'Miss Marshall'.The song was first published by Orsborn & Tuckwood, then by Ascherberg in 1892. It was re-published in 1907 as one of the Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar, with English and...

"
song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

Miss Marshall Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.- Early life :Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad...

Orsborn & Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
1892 "Like to the Damask Rose
Like to the Damask Rose
”Like to the Damask Rose” is a poem either by Francis Quarles called "Hos ego versiculos", or by Simon Wastell called “The flesh profiteth nothing”. It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892....

"
song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

Simon Wastell
or Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems.-Career:Francis was born in Romford, Essex, , and baptised there on 8 May 1592. He traced his ancestry to a family settled in England before the Norman Conquest with a long history in royal service...

Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
1892 "The Poet's Life
The Poet's Life
”The Poet’s Life” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892, with words by "Ellen Burroughs".The manuscript of the song has a dedication to "Mrs. Fitton", but this is crossed out....

"
song voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

Ellen Burroughs Ascherberg
1892 "A spear, a sword" song voice and piano, unpub. C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

1892 Mill-wheel Songs song voice and piano, unpub.
1. "Winter"
2. "May (a rhapsody)"
C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

1894 "The Wave" song voice and piano, unpub.
1894 "Muleteer's Song" song voice and piano Barry Pain
Barry Pain
Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer.-Biography:Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta...

1894 Parsifal, Good Friday Music (Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

)
arrangement for small orchestra, Worcester High School
30 1896 "As torrents in summer" part-song SATB unacc., from Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30, pub. separately, Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...

Novello
29 1896 "Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars" song tenor solo and chorus TTBB, from The Light of Life, Op. 29, pub. separately Rev. E. Capel-Cure Novello
29 1896 "Doubt not thy Father's care" song duet, soprano and alto, from The Light of Life, Op. 29, pub. separately Rev. E. Capel-Cure Novello
35 1897 "The Sword Song" song baritone, from Caractacus, Op. 35, pub. separately H.M Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

H. A. Acworth Novello
1897 "Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light
Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light
"Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light" is a song with piano accompaniment written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1897. The words are from the fourth roundel of a poem A Baby's Death written by A. C...

"
song voice and piano, composed 1887, unpub. A. C. Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

MS
1897 "Grete Malverne on a Rocke" part-song Christmas carol SATB unacc.,
pub. 1909 as Lo, Christ the Lord is born
trad. Christmas Card
1898 "The Holly and the Ivy" arrangement Christmas carol,
chorus and orchestra
trad.
1898 Festival March in C choral chorus and orchestra, fragment only remains
1898 "Love alone will stay
Love alone will stay
" Love alone will stay" is a poem by Caroline Alice Elgar, set to music for voice and piano by her husband, the English composer Edward Elgar, in 1897....

"
song voice and piano, published in "The Dome",
later adapted as In Haven, No. 2 of Sea Pictures, Op. 37
C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Paternoster Press
1898 "O Salutaris Hostia" church choir unacc., in Tozer’s Benediction Manual No. 47 O Salutaris Hostia
O Salutaris Hostia
O salutaris Hostia, "O Saving Host", is a section of one of the Eucharistic hymns written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi. He wrote it for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office. It is actually the last two stanzas of the hymn Verbum supernum prodiens, and is used for the...

Cary
1899 "Dry those fair, those crystal eyes
Dry those fair, those crystal eyes
”Dry those fair, those crystal eyes” is a poem by Henry King Bishop of Chichester, set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1899....

"
song voice and piano Henry King
Henry King (poet)
-Life:The eldest son of John King, Bishop of London, and his wife Joan Freeman, he was baptised at Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, 16 January 1592. He was educated at Lord Williams's School, Westminster School and in 1608 became a student of Christ Church, Oxford...

Charing + Hospital Bazaar
1899 "To Her Beneath Whose Steadfast Star" part-song SATB unacc., orchestrated 1902 H.M. Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

Frederick W. H. Myers Macmillan
12 Y1899 "Woo thou, sweet Music" song voice and piano,
from Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, adapted by Max Laistner
A. C. Bunten Schott
1899 Sérénade Lyrique orchestral Ivan Caryll’s Orchestra Chappell
1900 "Pansies" song voice and piano,
from Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, adapted by Max Laistner
Percy E. Pinkerton
Percy E. Pinkerton
Percy Edward Pinkerton was an English translator and poet.- Biography :Percy Edward Pinkerton was born on 19 June 1855, at Manor Road, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, London, Middlesex. He was the third child of George Pinkerton and Mary Easum...

Schott
1900 "The Pipes of Pan
The Pipes of Pan
"The Pipes of Pan" is a poem by Adrian Ross set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar, being completed on 5 June 1899.The song was published by Boosey in 1900. Early editions of the vocal score are inscribed 'Sung by Mr...

"
song voice and piano Adrian Ross
Adrian Ross
For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Boosey
1901 "Always and Everywhere
Always and Everywhere
”Always and Everywhere” is a song by the English composer Edward Elgar with words translated from the Polish of Zygmunt Krasiński by Frank H. Fortey...

"
song voice and piano, from the Polish of Krasiński
Zygmunt Krasinski
Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński , a Polish count, is traditionally ranked with Mickiewicz and Słowacki as one of Poland's Three National Bards — the trio of great Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness during the period of Poland's political bondage.-Life and...

F. H. Fortey Boosey
1901 "Come, Gentle Night!
Come, gentle night!
"Come, Gentle Night!" is a poem by Clifton Bingham set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901.It is a song for soprano voice, the title page advertising that it was sung by Madame Clara Butt....

"
song voice and piano Clifton Bingham Boosey
1901 May-Song keyboard piano, for orchestra (Elkin, 1928) W. H. Broome
Morrice Music
Elkin
1901 Emmaus
(Herbert Brewer
Herbert Brewer
Sir Arthur Herbert Brewer was an English composer and organist. As organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 until his death, he contributed a good deal to the Three Choirs Festival for 30 years....

)
arrangement orchestration
1902 "Land of Hope and Glory
Land of Hope and Glory
"Land of Hope and Glory" is a British patriotic song, with music by Edward Elgar and lyrics by A. C. Benson, written in 1902.- Composition :...

"
song voice and piano or orchestra Arthur Christopher Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge....

Boosey
1902 "O Mightiest of the Mighty" church hymn for the Coronation of Edward VII H.R.H. Prince of Wales
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...


(later H.M. King Edward VII)
Rev. S. Childs Clarke Novello
1902 "God Save the King" arrangement soloists, chorus and orchestra Novello
1903 "Speak, my Heart!
Speak, my Heart!
”Speak, my Heart” is a poem by Arthur Christopher Benson, set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1902.The score was dated 16 August 1902 and it was published by Boosey & Co...

"
song voice and piano Arthur Christopher Benson
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge....

Boosey
1903 "Weary Wind of the West" part-song SATB unacc. T. E. Brown
Thomas Edward Brown
Thomas Edward Brown , commonly referred to as T.E. Brown was a Manx poet, scholar and theologian.Brown was born at Douglas, Isle of Man. His father, the Rev. Robert Brown, shared with the parish schoolmaster in tutoring the clever boy until, at the age of fifteen, he was entered at King William's...

Novello
1903 Offertoire (Andante Religioso) chamber violin and piano, "Offertoire pour le violon, Gustave Francke (op 11), dedié à Serge Derval, Anvers" [note by Elgar] Serge Derval, Antwerp Boosey
1903 Skizze keyboard piano, repub. Novello Prof. Julius Buths
Julius Buths
Julius Buths was a German pianist, conductor and minor composer. He was particularly notable in his early championing of the works of Edward Elgar in Germany. He conducted the continental European premieres of both the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius...

, Düsseldorf
Musik-Beilag zur Nuen Musik-Zeitung (Stuttgart),
Novello
50 1904 Canto Popolare
Canto Popolare (Elgar)
Canto Popolare is an arrangement for viola with piano accompaniment, made by the English composer Edward Elgar. It is from the viola solo in the central section of his concert-overture In the South , written in 1904....

chamber viola and piano, arranged by the composer from his concert-overture In the South (Alassio)
In the South (Alassio)
In the South , Op. 50, is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar during a family holiday in Italy in the winter of 1903 to 1904.The work is dedicated "To my friend Leo F. Schuster".- History :...

, Op. 50
Boosey
50 1904 "In Moonlight
In Moonlight
"In Moonlight" is a song with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1904 to words from the poem "An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing to her Accompaniment on the Guitar", by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published in 1832....

"
song voice and piano,
adapted to the viola serenade Canto Popolare
Canto Popolare (Elgar)
Canto Popolare is an arrangement for viola with piano accompaniment, made by the English composer Edward Elgar. It is from the viola solo in the central section of his concert-overture In the South , written in 1904....

 from the concert-overture In the South (Alassio)
In the South (Alassio)
In the South , Op. 50, is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar during a family holiday in Italy in the winter of 1903 to 1904.The work is dedicated "To my friend Leo F. Schuster".- History :...

, Op. 50
Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

Boosey
1905 "Evening Scene" part-song SATB unacc. In Memory of R. G. H. Howson Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.-Youth:...

Novello
1905 In Smyrna keyboard piano, pub. "Queen's Christmas Carol Book", repub. Novello Daily Mail,
Novello
1906 Piece for Organ keyboard organ, "For Dot's Nuns" [remark by Elgar]
1907 Berceuse-Petit Reine
(Victor Bérard)
arrangement violin and piano Wilcocks (?)
Ashdown
1907 Andantino
(Victor Bérard)
arrangement violin, mandolin and guitar "For the Barbers" [remark by Elgar],
unfinished
1907 Two single chants for Venite in D and G church choir, in "New Cathedral Psalter" Novello
1907 Two double chants in D for Psalms 68 and 75 church choir, in "New Cathedral Psalter" Novello
1907 String quartet chamber fragmentary
1907 "How calmly the evening" part-song SATB unacc. T. Lynch Novello
1907 Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
The Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.The set was published with German words 'by Ed...

song voice and piano
1. "Like to the Damask Rose
Like to the Damask Rose
”Like to the Damask Rose” is a poem either by Francis Quarles called "Hos ego versiculos", or by Simon Wastell called “The flesh profiteth nothing”. It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892....

"
2. "Queen Mary's Song
Queen Mary's Song
”Queen Mary's Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are from Lute Song by Tennyson.It was composed between 14 June and 1 July 1889, and dedicated to 'J. H. Meredith'....

"
3. "A Song of Autumn
A Song of Autumn
"A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon set to music by Edward Elgar in 1892.It was dedicated to 'Miss Marshall'.The song was first published by Orsborn & Tuckwood, then by Ascherberg in 1892. It was re-published in 1907 as one of the Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar, with English and...

2
4. "The Poet's Life
The Poet's Life
”The Poet’s Life” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892, with words by "Ellen Burroughs".The manuscript of the song has a dedication to "Mrs. Fitton", but this is crossed out....

"
5. "Through the Long Days
Through the Long Days
”Through the Long Days” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1885 as his Op.16, No.2. The words are from a poem by the American writer and statesman John Hay....

"
6. "Rondel
Rondel (Elgar)
”Rondel” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1894 as his Op.16, No.3. The words are by Longfellow, a translation of a Rondel by Froissart. The manuscript is dated 4 January 1894....

"
7. "The Shepherd's Song
The Shepherd's Song
”The Shepherd’s Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1892. The words are by Barry Pain.The manuscript is dated 22 August 1892.The song was first published in 1895 by Tuckwood as his Op. 16 No.1, then in 1896 by Ascherberg...

"
all first pub. 1889-1894
Boosey
1908 "Marching Song
Follow the Colours
"Follow the Colours" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar, with words by Capt. William de Courcy Stretton. The song is for male voice solo with an optional chorus of male voices....

"
part-song SATB and piano,
repub. 1914 as "Follow the Colours
Follow the Colours
"Follow the Colours" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar, with words by Capt. William de Courcy Stretton. The song is for male voice solo with an optional chorus of male voices....

" for solo and optional male chorus and orchestra
Capt. W. de Courcy Stretton Novello
1908 "Abide with me"
(Ivor Atkins
Ivor Atkins
Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral for over 50 years . He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble...

)
arrangement anthem, rev. 1928
1909 "Lo! Christ the Lord is Born" church Christmas carol SATB unacc.,
after Grete Malverne on a Rocke, 1897
Shapcott Wensley
Shapcott Wensley
Shapcott Wensley was the pseudonym of the English author and poet Henry Shapcott Bunce .- Life :He was born in Bristol in the summer of 1854. He died in Bristol on 1 June 1917. He married a singer, Alice Mary Wensley, and they had one daughter, Gertrude.By profession he was a clerk in a soap works...

Novello
1910 "A Child Asleep
A Child Asleep
"A Child Asleep" is a song, with lyrics from a poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in December 1909 and published in 1910 by Novello...

"
song voice and piano Anthony Goetz Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members...

Novello
1910 "The King's Way
The King's Way
”The King’s Way” is a poem set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909. The words were written by his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar....

"
song voice and piano C. Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice Elgar
Caroline Alice, Lady Elgar was an English author of verse and prose fiction, who married the composer Edward Elgar.- Family :...

Boosey
1910 "They are at Rest" church anthem for choir and organ, perf. at the Royal Mausoleum
Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

 for the anniversary of Queen Victoria's
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

 death
Cardinal Newman Novello
1911 St Matthew Passion
(J. S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

)
arrangement performing edition, with Ivor Atkins
Ivor Atkins
Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral for over 50 years . He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble...

Novello
1911 St Matthew Passion
(J. S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

)
arrangement two 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" song Scena, intended for Muriel Foster Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator...

1913 Carissima
Carissima (Elgar)
"Carissima" is a piece for small orchestra by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar.It was composed in December 1913 and published in 1914 by Elkin & Co.It was the first work of Elgar's to be recorded, and the recording was its first performance...

orchestral Winifred Stephens Elkin
1914 "Follow the Colours" part-song see Marching Song, 1908 Capt. W. de Courcy Stretton Novello
1914 "Fear not, O Land" church Harvest Anthem Joel ii
Book of Joel
The Book of Joel is part of the Hebrew Bible. Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve; the distinction 'minor' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the "Major Prophets".-Content:After...

Novello
1914 "Arabian Serenade
Arabian Serenade
"Arabian Serenade" is a poem written by Margery Lawrence and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1914.The poem is from "Songs of Childhood and other Verses" by Margery Lawrence, published by Grant Richards, Ltd....

"
song voice and piano Margery Lawrence
Margery Lawrence
Margery Lawrence was an English Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction and detective fiction author who specialized in ghost stories....

Boosey
1914 "The Chariots of the Lord
The Chariots of the Lord
‘”The Chariots of the Lord” is a poem by Rev. John Brownlie, D.D., set to music by Edward Elgar in 1914.The song was written for Clara Butt and first performed by her in the Royal Albert Hall on 28 June 1914. It was published by Boosey & Co.-Lyrics:...

"
song voice and piano Rev. John Brownlie Boosey
1914 "The Birthright" part-song SATB unacc. George A. Stocks Novello
1914 "The Merry-go-round" song unison song acc. piano,
pub. USA
Florence C. Fox Silver Burdett
1915 Rosemary orchestral orchestration of Douce Pensée (1882) for piano trio Elkin
1915 "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront
Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront
”Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront” is a song for solo soprano, part of a staged recitation with orchestra Une voix dans le désert written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1915...

"
song see Une voix dans le désert, Op. 77
1915 "The Brook" part-song 2-part song acc. piano,
pub. USA
Ellen Soule Silver Burdett
1915 "The Windlass Song" part-song SATB unacc.,
pub. USA
William Allingham
William Allingham
William Allingham was an Irish man of letters and a poet.-Biography:He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent...

Silver Burdett
1916 "Fight for Right" song voice and piano Members of the Fight for Right
Fight for Right
"Fight for Right" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar, with words taken from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris.It was published by Elkin in 1916, and dedicated to Members of the Fight for Right Movement....

 Movement
William Morris
William Morris
William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...

Elkin
1917 "Ozymandias" song voice and piano Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

1917 The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

song songs for four baritones and orchestra,
1. "The Lowestoft Boat
The Lowestoft Boat
"The Lowestoft Boat" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

 (A Chanty)"
2. "Fate's Discourtesy"
3. "Submarines
Submarines (poem)
"Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

"
4. "The Sweepers
The Sweepers
"The Sweepers" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

"
5. "Inside the Bar
Inside the Bar
”Inside the Bar" is a song written in 1917 by the English composer Edward Elgar, with words by Sir Gilbert Parker.It was published by Enoch & Sons in 1917....

 (A Sailor's Song)" added later
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Enoch
1917 "The Lowestoft Boat
The Lowestoft Boat
"The Lowestoft Boat" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

 (A Chanty)"
song four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Enoch
1917 "Fate's Discourtesy" song four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Enoch
1917 "Submarines
Submarines (poem)
"Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

"
song four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Enoch
1917 "The Sweepers
The Sweepers
"The Sweepers" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

"
song four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Enoch
1917 "Inside the Bar
Inside the Bar
”Inside the Bar" is a song written in 1917 by the English composer Edward Elgar, with words by Sir Gilbert Parker.It was published by Enoch & Sons in 1917....

 (A Sailor's Song)"
song four baritones unaccompanied
added to The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

,
dedicated to the four singers
Charles Mott
Charles James Mott
- Biography :Charles James Mott was born in Hornsey, North London, the son of Henry Isaac Mott, a surveyor's clerk, and Eliza Brockley, a singing teacher. He was one of a large family. His early music was as a choirboy at St. James' Church in Muswell Hill...

,
Harry Barratt
Harry Barratt
Harold "Harry" Barratt was an English football player and manager.-Playing career:Barratt's entire professional playing career was spent with Coventry City. He joined the club in 1935, left for a short spell with non-league Cheltenham Town, then returned to Coventry in 1937 and played there...

,
Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry may refer to:People* Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, , Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel* Frederick Henry , Roman Catholic bishop in Calgary, Canada...

 and
Frederick Stewart
Frederick Stewart
Frederick or Fred Stewart may refer to:*Frederick Stewart , Australian businessman, politician and government minister*Frederick Stewart , Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong...

Gilbert Parker Enoch
1918 "Big Steamers
Big Steamers
Big Steamers is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1911 as one of his twenty-three poems written specially for C. R. L. Fletcher's "A School History of England". It appears in the last chapter of the book...

"
song unison song for children, acc. piano Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Teachers' World
1920 Study for strengthening the third finger chamber re-copied from 1877 sketch Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...

1922 "Ye Holy Angels bright"
(John Darwall
John Darwall
John Darwall was an English clergyman and hymnodist.Born in the village of Haugh­ton in Staffordshire, Darwall was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford , grad­u­at­ing in 1756. He then became curate and later vicar of St Matthew's Parish in Walsall...

)
arrangement orchestral accompaniment
1922 "Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time
"And did those feet in ancient time" is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date on the title page of 1804 for Milton is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed c. 1808...

"
(Parry
Hubert Parry
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...

)
arrangement for chorus and orchestra William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

1923 Arthur incidental to a play by Laurence Binyon
Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....

1923 "The Wanderer" part-song TTBB unacc. Anon., adapted from Wit and Drollery, 1661 Novello
1923 "Zut, zut, zut!" part-song TTBB unacc. Richard Marden Novello
1923 Memorial Chimes for a Carillon
Carillon
A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...

keyboard for the opening of the Loughborough War Memorial Carillon
Loughborough
Loughborough is a town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and is home to Loughborough University...

MS
1923 Overture in D minor
(Handel
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

)
arrangement transcription 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
Jonathan Battishill
Jonathan Battishill was an English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to working as an organist and composer for the Church of England...

)
arrangement orchestral accompaniment MS
1923 "Let us Lift up our Hearts"
(S. S. Wesley
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Samuel Sebastian Wesley was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in London, he was the eldest child in the composer Samuel Wesley's second family, which he formed with Sarah Suter having separated from his wife Charlotte. Samuel Sebastian was the grandson of Charles Wesley...

)
arrangement orchestral accompaniment MS
1924 Empire March orchestral Enoch
1924 Arthur: Suite orchestral for chamber orchestra (from the incidental music to Binyon's Arthur MS
1924 Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

incidental solo songs, except No. 8 "A Song of Union
A Song of Union
"A Song of Union" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924...

" for SATB
SATB
In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voices required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work...


Nos. 5 and 7 were also later arranged for chorus SATB
SATB
In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voices required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work...

; some also with orchestral accompaniment
1. "Shakespeare's Kingdom
Shakespeare's Kingdom
"Shakespeare's Kingdom" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song is about the English poet, William Shakespeare,...

"
2. "The Islands
The Islands (Elgar)
"The Islands" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song is subtitled "A Song of New Zealand"...

 (A Song of New Zealand)"
3. "The Blue Mountains
The Blue Mountains (Elgar)
"The Blue Mountains" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song is subtitled "A Song of Australia"...

 (A Song of Australia)"
4. "The Heart of Canada
The Heart of Canada
"The Heart of Canada" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song refers to Canada as a member of the British Empire...

"
5. "Sailing Westward
Sailing Westward
"Sailing Westward" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song descriptively commemorates the adventurous English...

"
6. "Merchant Adventurers
Merchant Adventurers (Elgar)
"Merchant Adventurers" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song refers to the merchant adventurers who set sail from...

"
7. "The Immortal Legions
The Immortal Legions
"The Immortal Legions" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The poem is of quiet grief and thanksgiving in remembrance of...

"
8. "A Song of Union
A Song of Union
"A Song of Union" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924...

" (part-song SATB)
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "Shakespeare's Kingdom
Shakespeare's Kingdom
"Shakespeare's Kingdom" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song is about the English poet, William Shakespeare,...

"
song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "The Islands
The Islands (Elgar)
"The Islands" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song is subtitled "A Song of New Zealand"...

 (A Song of New Zealand)"
song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "The Blue Mountains
The Blue Mountains (Elgar)
"The Blue Mountains" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song is subtitled "A Song of Australia"...

 (A Song of Australia)"
song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "The Heart of Canada
The Heart of Canada
"The Heart of Canada" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song refers to Canada as a member of the British Empire...

"
song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "Sailing Westward
Sailing Westward
"Sailing Westward" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song descriptively commemorates the adventurous English...

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song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

,
later arranged for chorus SATB
SATB
In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voices required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "Merchant Adventurers
Merchant Adventurers (Elgar)
"Merchant Adventurers" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The song refers to the merchant adventurers who set sail from...

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song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "The Immortal Legions
The Immortal Legions
"The Immortal Legions" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924.The poem is of quiet grief and thanksgiving in remembrance of...

"
song solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

,
later arranged for chorus SATB
SATB
In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voices required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work...

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 "A Song of Union
A Song of Union
"A Song of Union" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs written to be performed in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924...

"
part-song SATB and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire
Pageant of Empire (Elgar)
Pageant of Empire is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition.-Details:...

, trio of Empire March
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

Enoch
1924 March chamber violin, cello and piano,
intended also for orchestra
The Grafton family
1924 "The Song of the Bull" part-song male voices and piano, for Cambridge University May Week F. Hamilton
1925 "The Herald" part-song SATB unacc. Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith (poet)
Alexander Smith was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School.-Life and works:...

Novello
1925 "The Prince of Sleep" part-song SATB unacc. Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare
Walter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....

Elkin
1927 Civic Fanfare orchestral orchestra without violins Dr. Percy C. Hull
Percy Hull
Sir Percy Clarke Hull was an English organist and composer who revived the Three Choirs Festival during his time as organist of Hereford Cathedral from 1918 to 1949...

MS
1928 May-Song orchestral from the original for piano
1928 Beau Brummel
Beau Brummell
Beau Brummell, born as George Bryan Brummell , was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV...

incidental dramatic music to a play by Bertram Matthews, only Minuet published Bertram P. Matthews MS
1928 Minuet from Beau Brummel keyboard piano Elkin
1928 "I sing the Birth" church Christmas carol SATB unacc. Rev. Harcourt B. S. Fowler Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

Novello
1929 "Good Morrow
Good Morrow
"Good Morrowe" is a poem written by Mr.Majangdao in 1557 and set to music by the English composer Sir khitong in 1929. Elgar titled it in modern English "Good Morrow" with the subtitle "A simple Carol for His Majesty's happy recovery", and it is a setting for unaccompanied choir, though a piano...

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church 'A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery', SATB unacc. or acc. piano H.M. King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne
George Gascoigne was an English poet, soldier, artist, and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to the emergence of Philip Sidney...

Novello
1929 "Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei"
(Purcell
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...

)
arrangement orchestral accompaniment MS
1930 "It isnae me
It isnae me
"It isnae me" is a poem by Sally Holmes which was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1930.The poem was first printed in Country Life magazine, and the song published in 1931 by Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd,...

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song voice and piano Joan Elwes Sally Holmes Keith Prowse
1930 "XTC
XTC (Elgar)
”XTC” is a song with words and music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1930. It was his last song.Elgar's sketches for the accompanying music were written separately from the words...

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song voice and piano Edward Elgar
1930 Soliloquy chamber oboe and piano
1931 Nursery Suite
Nursery Suite
The Nursery Suite is one of the last compositions by Edward Elgar. Like Elgar's The Wand of Youth suites, it makes use of sketches from the composer's childhood.There are seven movements and a coda:...

orchestral 1. 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
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

 and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI....

Keith Prowse
1932 Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode
Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode
Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode is an ode "So many true Princesses who have gone" written by John Masefield and set to music for choir and orchestra by Sir Edward Elgar for the occasion of the unveiling of Sir Alfred Gilbert's memorial to Queen Alexandra on 8 June 1932 outside Marlborough House in...

choral "So many true Princesses who have gone",
SATB and orchestra
In Memory H.M. Queen Alexandra
Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...

John Masefield
John Masefield
John Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...

MS
1932 "The Woodland Stream" song unison song Stephen S. Moore Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.-Life:Charles Mackay was born in Perth, Scotland. His father was by turns a naval officer and a foot soldier; his mother died shortly after his birth. Charles was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent...

Keith Prowse
1932 "The Rapid Stream" song unison song Stephen S. Moore, Worcester Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.-Life:Charles Mackay was born in Perth, Scotland. His father was by turns a naval officer and a foot soldier; his mother died shortly after his birth. Charles was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent...

Keith Prowse
1932 "When Swallows Fly" song unison song Stephen S. Moore Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay
Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.-Life:Charles Mackay was born in Perth, Scotland. His father was by turns a naval officer and a foot soldier; his mother died shortly after his birth. Charles was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent...

Keith Prowse
1932 Sonatina keyboard piano, certainly written many years earlier May Grafton Keith Prowse
1932 Adieu keyboard piano, certainly written many years earlier, transcr. for violin by Szigeti
Joseph Szigeti
Joseph Szigeti was a Hungarian violinist.Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and moved to Budapest with his father to study with the renowned pedagogue Jenő Hubay...

Keith Prowse
1932 Serenade keyboard piano, certainly written many years earlier John Austin Keith Prowse
1933 Mina orchestral small orchestra Keith Prowse
1933 "Tarantella" song baritone and orchestra, incomplete Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

1933 Funeral March
(Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

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arrangement transcription for orchestra of the Funeral March from the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 Keith Prowse
1879 Adagio Solenne see Five Intermezzos of Wind Quintets, Op 6.1, also used in Cantique, Op. 3
1879 Evesham Andante see Andante con Variazioni of Wind Quintets, Op. 6.5
1879 Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup
Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup
Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup was a medicinal product formula compounded by Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow and first marketed by her son-in-law Jeremiah Curtis and Benjamin A. Perkins in Bangor, Maine, USA in 1849. The formula consisted of morphine sulphate , sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculi, and...

see Adagio Cantabile of Wind Quintets, Op. 6.6
1892 "Stars of the Summer Night" see "Spanish Serenade", Op. 23
1884 Une Idylle see Idylle, Op. 4.1
1894 King Olaf see Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf, Op. 30
1896 Lux Christi see The Light of Life, Op. 29
1899 Enigma Variations see Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36
1902 Enfants d'un Rêve see Dream Children, Op. 43
1911 Coronation Offertorium see "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
1916 The Belgian Flag see Le drapeau belge, Op. 79
1932 "So many true Princesses who have gone" see Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode, 1932
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