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Sir Edward Elgar

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Elgar - Facts

Some unusual facts about Sir Edward Elgar that you may not know.

  • Elgar loved wordplay: His Enigma Variations contained clues as to the people who inspired each of the pieces: His daughter was called Carice, using part of each of his wife's forenames Car(oline Al)ice: His house in Malvern was called Craeg Lea, an anagram of C(arice), A(lice) and E(dward) Elgar.听
  • Elgar liked sport: he played golf (you can see his clubs in the Elgar Birthplace Museum), and in later years was interested in horse racing.
  • He was also fascinated by science, conducting his own primitive experiments at home.
  • The famous poem by Lawrence Binyon "For the fallen" (They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old), which is heard every Remembrance Day, was set to music by Elgar in his "The Spirit of England".
  • Elgar had a locomotive named after him. The Sir Edward Elgar was a Bulldog class loco., number 3414, and it was built in 1906 and withdrawn from service in 1938.
  • The maverick film director Ken Russell made a film of Elgar's life for the 91热爆 In 1962. It has been re-released on DVD.
  • There are 65 roads named after Elgar in the UK, including six in the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

last updated: 12/03/2008 at 10:02
created: 09/05/2007

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alissha mottom
realy helpfull

Elii
He taught himself most of the instruments he played, including the double bass.

zac
he loved golf

Nick
I live just around the corner where Elgar used to live in Hampton Park, Hereford. As I drive past on Hampton Park Road I get a great feeling, I can almost feel his presense, hear music etc. As a composer myself I look back to people like him. He was the Lennon/ MacCartney of his day. The grounds are well kept and a little plaque indicates this was his home..

Max Sinclair
Sir Edward enjoyed a flutter on the horses. There were no lawful street bookies in his day so he had to visit Worcester Post Office and send a telegram to Ladbrookes in London.He used to ask for my father Frank who was the counter supervisor at the time. When the reply came in the late afternoon giving the result if it was a win my father would cycle home via Rainbow Hill but if it was a loser the telegram boy was sent.Elgar new the result when he saw who came up the drive at Marlbank.

peter radcliffe
Elgar spent quiet time sitting in the churchyard at Queenhill near Bushley - a beautiful and quiet place before the Ross spur motorway went past the church

Christine Walters
Sir Edward Elgar taught my father (Frank Walters - named Frank after Elgar's late brother) to fly a kite on the Malvern Hills. He also left 'the secret' of the Enigma Variations to my Grandfather, George Walters, which was passed on to me via my father.

Michael Southall
Sir Edward Elgar was unanimously elected a member of the Worcestershire Naturalists'Club on Thursday, 25th June 1931 at Dunhampstead

Maryanne
Sir Edward Elgar finished school when he was 15 and he worked for a short time in a law ofice.

Gerald Sanger
Elgar taught my Grandmother to play the piano. Her name was Laura and we were told that Elgar wrote a piano piece called 'Laura' and gave it to her because they became good friends, but we have never found the hand written manuscript to proove it.

Sandra Greenhow
Years ago i met Elgars great neice in the "natural break" in Mealcheapen st. in worcester , she taught piano !

Elspeth Harmsworth
I knew 'Dorabella' as a child. She was Mrs Powell, and lived at 'Poels', Moat Rd.East Grinstead, Sissex.

Avril Field-Taylor
Elgar loved dogs and owned dogs before his marriage. Alice hated them and would not let him have a dog. He had to wait until after her death before owning dogs again, but did so for the rest of his life.

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