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The Cambridge Companion to Elgar Edited by Daniel M Cambridge University Press 0521533635 - The Cambridge Companion to Elgar Edited by Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton Index More information Index Acworth, H. A., 26, 64, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78 Binge, Ronald, 77 Alexandra, Queen, 28, 30, 60 Binyon, Laurence, 83, 138, 173, 203, 219–20 Allen, Sir Hugh, 23 Winnowing Fan, The, 219 Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung, 204, 205–6, 211 Birmingham, 6, 8, 17, 18, 20, 52, 82, 87, 90, 95, Anderson, Robert, 1, 86, 101, 223 113, 140, 147, 204 Argyll, 9th Duke of, see Campbell, John Birmingham and Midland Institute, 22 Douglas Sutherland Birmingham Festival, 18, 20, 94, 100, Armes, Philip, 17 101 Arnold, Matthew, 61 Birmingham Oratory, 91 Ashton, Sir Frederick, 56, 57 Birmingham Popular Concerts, 17 Asquith, Herbert Henry, 176 Peyton Chair, University, see Elgar, Sir AssociatedBoardoftheRoyalSchoolsof Edward William Music, 12 Birmingham Daily Post, 220 Atkins, Sir Ivor, 17, 95, 104, 113, 118, Bizet, Georges, 4 186 Carmen, 140 Augustine, St Jeux d’enfants,65 Civitas Dei, 104 Blackwood, Algernon, 134, 178, 182 A Prisoner in Fairyland, 134, 178 Bach, Carl Philip Emmanuel, 4 Blair, Hugh, 17, 113, 115 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 27, 118, 193–4 Blake, Carice Elgar, 7, 25, 32, 57, 58, 82, Bach Gesellschaft, 28 188 Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, 27, 123 Bliss, Sir Arthur, 22 St Matthew Passion, 100 Boosey & Co., publisher, 28, 30, 68, Baker, Sir Herbert, 172 217 Bantock, Sir Granville, 21–2, 23 Boosey and Hawkes, publisher, 30, 43 Dante and Beatrice,22 Boughton, Edgar, 22 Russian Scenes,22 Boult, Sir Adrian, 101, 102, 191, 197, 201, Barbirolli, Sir John, 1, 129, 191, 192 202 Barrie, Sir James M., 60 Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, 22 Peter Pan, 58, 178 Brahms, Johannes, 4, 89, 120, 141, 148, 205; Bartok,´ Bela,´ 192 developing variation, 129; influence String Quartet No. 2, 133 on Elgar, 53, 54, 56, 64, 67, 75, 208 String Quartet No. 5, 170 Piano Quintet in F minor, 134 Baudelaire, Charles, 85, 91, 96 Requiem, 66, 89 Baughan, E. A., 86, 89, 94 Serenade No. 1, 67 Bax, Sir Arnold, 22 SymphonyNo.1,148 BBC (British Broadcasting Company SymphonyNo.3,154 [/Corporation]), 9, 30, 195–203, Variations on a theme by Haydn 217 (‘St Antony’), 69, 146 BBC Symphony Orchestra, 197 Zigeunerlieder, 205 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 5, 51, 107, 113, 148, Breitkopf & Hartel,¨ publisher, 24, 26, 28, 129, 177, 192, 205, 208 206 Symphony No. 7, 141 Brewer, Sir Herbert, 17, 113 Wellingtons Sieg, 214 Brian, Havergal, 22 Bennett, Joseph, 87, 100 Bridge, Frank Benson, A. C., 28, 104, 174, 216 Suite for strings, 124 Berg, Alban Bridges, Robert, 200 Lulu Suite, 170 British Empire Exhibition, 200, 223–4 Berlioz, Hector, 141, 142 British Library, 31 Harold en Italie, 144 British National Opera Company, 196 [245] Treatise on Orchestration,5 British Shakespeare Society, 24 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521533635 - The Cambridge Companion to Elgar Edited by Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton Index More information 246 Index Britten, Edward Benjamin (Lord Britten of Cowen, Sir Frederic Hymen, 16, 21, 23 Aldeburgh), 88, 172 Ruth,18 ABoywasBorn, 170 ‘Scandinavian’ Symphony, 16 Death in Venice,81 Crotch, William, 111 Sinfonia da Requiem, 172 Crump, Jeremy, 10, 13 Symphonic Suite ‘Gloriana’, 58 Crystal Palace concerts see Manns, August Broadheath, see Elgar Birthplace Museum Cumberland, Gerald, 166 Brooke, Harold, 30, 31 Browning, Robert, 212 Daily Telegraph, 23, 87, 100, 130 Bruch, Max Daley, Wayne, 30 Violin Concerto No. 1, 193 Davies, Fanny, 5 Bruckner, Anton, 71, 148 Davies, Sir H. Walford, 59, 187 Symphony No. 5, 148 ‘Holiday Tunes’, 59 Te Deum, 116 Day, James, 215 Buck, Charles, 7, 24, 25, 33, 120 Debussy, Achille-Claude, 10, 154, 176 Buckley, Robert J., 32, 35 String Quartet, 152 Burley, Rosa, 7 Violin Sonata, 131 Burton, Humphrey, 199 Delius, Frederick, 22; Elgar discusses religious Busoni, Ferrucio, 188 works, 81, 83, 106; Elgar’s visit to, 23, Butler, Judith, 132 41 Butt, Dame Clara, 77, 220 Mass of Life, A, 106 Byrd, William, 190 Dent, Edward J., 15 Byron, George Gordon (6th Baron) Dibble, Jeremy, 162 Childe Harolde’s Pilgrimage, 144 Dictionary of National Biography,12 D’Indy, Vincent, see Indy, Vincent d’ Cambridge, University of, 15, 21, 112, Douglas, Lord Alfred, 84, 92, 93 217 Dowson, Ernest Cammaerts, Emile,´ 174–5, 183 ‘Cynara’, 97 Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland, 9th Duke Dukas, Paul, 176 of Argyll, 172 Dunhill, Thomas, 15 Cannadine, David, 12 du Pre,´ Jacqueline, 1 Capel-Cure, Edward, 26, 64, 67, 68, 95 Dvorˇak,´ Anton´ın, 6, 120, 141; influence on Cardus, Sir Neville, 87 Elgar, 4, 65, 67, 68, 75, 114 Carroll, Lewis, 178 Humoresque,67 Cary, Alphonse, publisher, 25 Slavonic Dances, 65, 67, 69 Casals, Pablo, 193 SymphonyNo.6,18,114 Catel, Charles-Simon, 4, 111 Chabrier, Emmanuel Early Music, 194 Espa˜na, 140 Eckhart, Meister, 211 Cherubini, Luigi, 4 Edward VII, King, 28, 60, 117, 159, 176, Chopin, FryderykFranciszek,50 216 Clayton, Henry, 29 Edwards, F. G., 24 Clifton, Arthur, 84 Elgar, Lady (nee´ Caroline Alice Roberts), 6, 18, Coates, Eric, 9, 77 20, 32, 50, 54, 59, 82, 99, 146, 148, 172; Cobbett, W. W., 129 death, 1, 9, 12, 99, 104, 173, 176, 183, Cohen, Harriet, 132 198; encourages, protects, and helps Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 21 Elgar, 7, 24, 27, 36, 101, 123; Atonement, The,21 interpretation of Elgar’s work, 134; Ballade in A Minor, 21 poetry, 67 Blind Girl of Cast`el-Cuill´e, The,21 Elgar, Ann (nee´ Greening), 4, 7, 24, 70, 75, 82, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast,21 107 Colles, H. C., 192 Elgar Birthplace Museum, 13, 36, 107 Colvin, Sir Sidney, 32 Elgar, Carice, see Blake, Carice Elgar Conder, Charles, 177 Elgar Complete Edition (Elgar Society Edition), Conrat, Hugo, 205, 206, 208 28, 30–1, 61 Constable, John, 212 Elgar, Sir Edward William, 1st Baronet Covent Garden Theatre, 16, 28, 54, 60, 171, (of Broadheath), OM, GCVO 197 decadence, 85–6, 87–8, 91–2, 105 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521533635 - The Cambridge Companion to Elgar Edited by Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton Index More information 247 Index education and early musical experiences, Capricieuse, La (Op. 17), 26, 54 4–6, 17–18, 107–8, 112 Etudes caract´eristiques (Op. 24), 50–1 ‘Englishness’, 1, 11–13, 106, 107–8, 129–30, Gavotte (1885), 51 199–200, 206–9, 211–13 Idylle (Op. 4, No. 1), 25, 53 homes Mot d’amour (Liebesahnung) (Op. 13, Avonmore Road, Kensington, 18, 20 No. 1), 25, 53–4 Birchwood Lodge, 34, 35 Pastourelle (Op. 4, No. 2), 25 Brinkwells, Sussex, 129 Piano Quintet (Op. 84), 129–30, 134–8 Severn House, Hampstead, 32, 172, 187 Powickquadrilles, 37, 51–2, 59, 140 honours Reminiscences (1877), 50, 55 baronetcy, 3, 224 Romance for violin and piano in E minor Croix de Commandeur de l’Ordre de la (Op. 1), 25, 51 Couronne, La, 224 Salut d’amour (Liebesgr¨uss) (Op. 12), 25, Freedom of the City of Worcester, 217 53–4, 129, 140, 202 honorary degrees, 20, 21, 217 String Quartet (Op. 83), 132–4 knighthood, 3, 28 Very Easy Melodious Exercises in the First Master of the King’s Musick, 3, 23, 53, Position (Op. 22), 50 106, 198, 200, 224 Violin Sonata (Op. 82), 130–2 MayorofHereford(proposed),3,113 Virelai (Op. 4, No. 3), 25, 53 Order of Merit, 3 Wind quintets (‘Harmony Peyton Chair, University of Birmingham, Music’/‘Sheds’), 37, 39, 51–2, 53, 59, 5, 8, 14, 16–17, 20, 21, 22, 139, 147, 118 154, 207, 217 choral imperialism, 3, 11–13, 78–80, 172–3, 215, Apostles, The (Op. 49), 93, 94, 95–9; 217, 221–3, 224 composition and influences, 20, 34, landscape and nature mysticism, 10, 12–14, 49, 108, 109; Elgar’s view of, 81; Judas, 32–5, 75, 125, 127, 211–12 104; publication, 28, 31; reception, 19, melancholy, 132–3, 166–9 22, 27, 28, 33–4, 100–1, 102–3, 205, modernism, 10–11, 14, 116, 126, 130, 133, 206, 208, 209–10; reuse of material, 42, 138, 150, 152–3, 170, 176–7 43–5, 61, 125 nostalgia, 2, 141, 142, 164, 178, 183 Banner of St George, The (Op. 33), 70, 216 pseudonym, 29 Black Knight, The (Op. 25), 26, 55, 64–7, reception, 8–9, 12–14, 204–13 72, 115, 139 recording, 1, 9, 29, 35, 52, 82, 154, 157, Caractacus (Op. 35), 33, 34, 75–80, 82, 184–94 187, 215 religion, 3, 15, 17, 24, 81, 82, 83, 87–8, 89, Coronation Ode (Op. 44), 12, 216–17 92, 95–7, 98, 101–2, 104–5, 106–11, Dream of Gerontius, The (Op. 38), 55, 57, 112–13, 209–10, 212–13 64, 69, 76, 81, 92, 93, 94–5, 108, 148, self-quotation, 10–11, 60–2 183, 211; composition and influences, sexuality,77, 91, 92, 97, 99, 102, 104, 121, 130 20, 34, 41–2, 43, 49 (Jaeger, 27, 92); sketches and compositional methods, 1, 6, Elgar’s view of, 102, 109; 11, 32–49 homoeroticism, 91; publication, 28; violin teaching, 6, 18 reception, 22, 28, 81, 83, 86–9, 100, works 101, 204–5, 206, 208, 209–11; arrangements recording, 186; reuse of material, 61–2, Bach, J. S., Fantasia in C minor, 124, 188; 220 Fugue in C minor (Elgar Op. 86), 124, Kingdom, The (Op. 51), 39, 81, 95–6, 188 99–104, 109, 111; reception, 19, 22, 28 God Save the King, 200 Light of Life, The (Lux Christi) (Op. 29), Handel, Overture (from Chandos Anthem 26, 55, 67–70; reception, 19 No.
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