The Cambridge Companion to Elgar Edited by Daniel M

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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

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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 España, 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 Castèl-Cuillé, 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

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education and early musical experiences, Capricieuse, La (Op. 17), 26, 54 4–6, 17–18, 107–8, 112 Etudes caractéristiques (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 (Liebesgrüss) (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. 2), 188 Music Makers, The (Op. 69), 11, 60–2, 152; Parry, ‘Jerusalem’, 200 reception, 19 Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer overture, Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf (Op. 30), 53 26, 51, 55, 70–5, 80; reception, 19 chamber and solo instrumental Spirit of England, The (Op. 80), 53, 202–3, Allegretto on the notes GEDGE (1885), 25, 219–20; reception, 19 50 With Proud Thanksgiving (arr. from Spirit Bizarrerie (Op.13No.2),25 of England), 223

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Elgar, Sir Edward William (cont.) Dream Children (Op. 43), 58, 140, 177 church music Elegy (Op. 58), 127 ‘Ave Maria’ (Op. 2, No. 2), 113–14 Falstaff (Op. 68), 10, 39, 45, 51, 58, 65, 78, ‘Ave maris stella’ (Op 2, No. 3), 113–14 127, 140, 142, 154, 162–6, 171, 176, ‘Ave verum corpus’ (Op. 2, No. 1), 113–14 177, 182; publication, 29; reception, Credo (on themes from Beethoven’s 19, 22; recording, 192; sketches, 173 symphonies 5, 7, and 9) (1873), 113 Froissart (Op. 19), 18, 54, 139, 142, 144; ‘Ecce Sacerdos Magnus’ (1888),56, 57, 113 publication, 19, 26; recording, 193 ‘Fear not, O land’ (harvest anthem, 1914), Imperial March (Op. 32), 12, 26–7, 141, 117 200, 216 ‘GiveuntotheLord’(anthem,Psalm29, Intermezzo moresque (1883), 140 1914), 117–18 In the South (‘Alassio’) (Op. 50), 10, 11, 29, Gloria (arr. of Mozart K547) (1880), 113 53, 142–4, 171 ‘Great is the Lord’ (anthem, Psalm 48, Intonation No. 2 (1878), 140 1912), 117 Introduction and Allegro for strings (Op. Hymn tune in F (1888), 52 47), 10, 11, 120, 123–9; and Jaeger, 27; litanies (for St George’s), 109, 110 Elgar on Barbirolli’s recording, 192; ‘Lo! Christ the Lord is born’ (carol, 1908), reception, 19, 22 117 Introductory Overture (for the Christy ‘O hearken Thou’ (1911), 117 Minstrels), 140 ‘O mightiest of the mighty’ (hymn, 1902), Nursery Suite, 30, 52, 169, 178 117 Polonia (Op. 76), 218 ‘O salutaris hostia’ (1880; pub. 1898), 114 Pomp and Circumstance marches (Op. 39), Te Deum and Benedictus (Op. 34), 27, 55, 10, 141, 150, 202, 214, 216; 116–17 publication, 28, 30; reception, 219; ‘They are at rest’ (1909), 117 recording, 192 Two double chants for Psalms lxviii and Rosemary, 39, 52, 140 lxxv (1907), 109, 110–11, 117 Serenade for strings in E minor (Op. 20), TwosinglechantsfortheVenite(1907), 54, 57, 120–3; publication, 26 109, 110–11, 117 Sérénade lyrique (1899), 140 dramatic Severn Suite (Op. 87), 52, 139; publication, Beau Brummel, 174 30 Carillon (Op. 75), 174–5, 218 Sevillana (Op. 7), 25, 53, 140 Crown of India, The (Op. 66), 29, 172–3, Sospiri (Op. 70), 129, 219 217 Suite for strings in D major (early version Drapeau belge, Le (Op. 79), 175 of Three Characteristic Pieces), 39, 53, Fringes of the Fleet, The, 10, 175–6, 219, 54 220–3 Sursum Corda (Op. 11), 28, 57, 112 Grania and Diarmid (Op. 42), 171–2 SymphonyNo.1inA major (Op. 55), 11, King Arthur, 40, 173–4 57, 58, 61, 127, 145, 147–53, 155, 168, Pageant of Empire, The, 223 177; composition and sketches, 34, 43, Sanguine Fan, The (Op. 81), 177 45, 57, 127; publication, 29, 30; Starlight Express, The (Op. 78), 59, 171, reception, 19, 22, 156; recording, 191, 177, 178–82, 183, 187, 219 192; reuse of material, 61 voix dans le désert, Une (Op. 77), 175 SymphonyNo.2inE major (Op. 63), 61, orchestral 75, 127, 131, 154, 159–62, 168, 176; Air de Ballet, 51, 140 broadcast, 202; composition and Cantique (Op. 3), 52, 118 sketches, 34, 39, 47, 49; Elgar’s Carissima, 129, 185 conducting, 188; publication, 29; Cockaigne (In London Town) (Op. 40), 10, reception, 14, 20, 22, 164; recording, 144–5; broadcast, 200; publication, 28; 185; reuse of material, 11 reception, 19; recording, 185, 192; Three Characteristic Pieces (Op. 10), 39, 53, sketches, 47 140 Cello Concerto in E minor (Op. 85), 50, Three Sketches for strings (?early form of 61, 62, 109, 120, 166; Elgar on Casals’ Op. 20), 120 performance, 193; publication, 29; Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’) reception, 1, 9; recording, 188 (Op. 36), 6, 10, 11, 36, 51, 53, 56–7, 59, Chanson de matin (Op.15No.1),57 79, 139, 140, 145–7; and Jaeger, 27, 49;

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and Novello, 28; composition and ‘Gordon’ Symphony, 56, 142, 147 sketches, 36, 45, 49; Elgar’s Lakes, The, overture (1883), 33 conducting, 191; reception, 9, 19, Last Judgement, The, 40, 95, 104, 105 204–5; reuse of material, 11, 60–1; Menuetto and Trio in G major for piano sexuality, 91; Toscanini’s conducting, trio (1882), 33, 39, 52 193 movement for piano and violin (sketch), Violin Concerto in B minor (Op. 61), 127, 37 154–8, 164, 189; publication, 29; ‘Overture’ (c.1882), 33 reception, 19; recording, 1, 188, 193; Spanish Lady, The (Op. 89), 1, 52, 174 reuse of material, 61, 117; sketches, 39 String Quartet in D minor (1888), 52 Wand of Youth, The (Op. 1), 40, 50, 52, String Quartet (1907), 58, 61, 148 58–60, 61, 140–1, 178 symphony movement after Mozart’s organ Symphony No. 40 in G minor (1878), Memorial Chime (for Loughborough War 5, 51 Memorial; arr. from original for SymphonyNo.3(Op.88,completedby carillon), 118 Anthony Payne), 1, 9, 30, 40, 82, 105, Sonata in G major (Op. 28), 115–16; 169, 174, 199, 203 composition, 39; publication, 26 Violin Concerto (?1890), 139 ‘Sonata No. 2’ (arr. Ivor Atkins from Elgar, Francis Thomas (Frank), 58 Severn Suite), 118 Elgar, Helen Agnes (Dott or Dot), 50 Vesper Voluntaries (Op. 14), 25, 52, Elgar, Lucy Ann, see Pipe, Lucy 114–15 Elgar Society, 28, 31 part-songs, etc. Elgar, William Henry, 3, 7, 24, 25, 33, 37, 50, Death on the Hills (Op. 72), 29 52, 107, 119 Follow the Colours, 217 Elkin, W. W., publisher, 129, 174, 175 My love dwelt in a northern land, 19, 25 Ellis, William Ashton, 95 Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode: So many ‘English musical renaissance’, 9, 197, true princesses who have gone,30 204 Reveille, The (Op. 54), 217 Enoch, publisher, 29 Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands Eschenbach, see Wolfram von Eschenbach (Op. 27), 67 Spanish Serenade (Stars of the summer Fanselau, Rainer, 112, 114, 115 night) (Op. 23), 26, 54 Faure,´ Gabriel, 10, 113, 129–30, 133 Two Choral Songs (Op. 71), 29 Souvenirs de Bayreuth,52 Two Choral Songs (Op. 73), 29 Fenby, Eric, 23, 81 Wanderer, The,29 Finzi, Gerald, 9 Zut! Zut! Zut!, 29–30 Foss, Hubert J., 15 piano solo Franck, Cesar,´ 10, 115, 130 Chantant,50 Piano Quintet, 130 Concert Allegro (Op. 46), 5 Violin Sonata, 130 Douce pensée,52 Fry, Roger, 35 Griffinesque,50 improvisations (in recording studio, Gainsborough, Thomas, 212 1929), 35 Gaisberg, Fred, 187 In Smyrna,5 Geidel, F. M., publisher, 28 Skizze,61 George V, King, 57, 106, 200, 217 Sonatina, 50, 55 German, Edward, 200 songs and song cycles Merrie England, 65, 77 As I Laye A-thynkynge,25 Gibbons, Orlando, 190 Land of Hope and Glory, 198, 200, 216, 219 Gilbert, Sir W. S., 76 Language of Flowers, The,50 Gloucester, 17, 113 Queen Mary’s Song,25 see also Three Choirs Festival Sea Pictures (Op. 37), 28, 52, 61 Godfrey, Sir Dan, 22, 188 Through the Long Days (Op. 16, No. 2), 25 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von unfinished or projected Faust, 208 ballet music (1879), 39 Golding, Sir William, 182–3 ‘Callicles’ (Empedocles on Etna), 40, 61 Goossens, Sir Eugene, 22 Cockaigne No. 2 (City of Dreadful Night),28 Goossens, Leon, 192–3

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Gordon, General Charles (of Khartoum), 56, Jaeger, August Johannes, 19, 21, 25, 27–8, 30, 142, 147 31, 33, 43, 61, 79, 83, 91, 92, 94, 95, 99, Gorton, Charles, 95, 98 101–2, 109, 126, 167, 171, 215; Goss, Sir John, 103 influence on Elgar, 8, 27–8, 49, 112, Gould, Corissa, 217 123 Gounod, Charles-François, 4 Jesuit Archive, London, 33 Grafton, May, 50 Joachim, Joseph, 130 Grahame, Kenneth Johnstone, Arthur, 87 Dream Days,58 Joshua, Marie, 130 Grainger, Percy, 22 Gramophone, The, 185 Keats, John, 104 Gramophone Company, The, 82, 186, 187, Keller, Hans, 126 224 Kennedy, Michael, 1, 18–19, 21, 61, 82, 101, Green,L.Dutton,133 120, 157, 166, 167, 204, 215 Grieg, Edvard, 73, 121 Kennedy, Nigel, 154 Peer Gynt suites, 58, 200 Kent, Christopher, 11, 162 Griffith, Arthur Troyte, 36, 133, 186 Kingsley, Charles, 89, 130 Grimley, Daniel M., 165, 166 Kipling, Rudyard, 10, 175–6, 177, 220, 221–3 Grogan, Christopher, 140 Kozeluch, Leopold, 4 Gurney, Edmund, 86 Lamb, Charles, 58, 140 Hadow, W. H., 15 Lambert, Constant Haines, FrankPercy, 112 Rio Grande,22 Hall, Marie, 193 Leeds, 16, 21, 75, 147 Hamilton, Henry, 172, 217 Leeds Festival, 19, 75 Handel, George Frideric, 63, 89, 107, 108, 193, Leicester family, 37 212 Leicester, Sir Hubert, 107, 108, 110 Hanson, Ellis, 85, 86, 91, 93–4 Leipzig, 28, 53 Hardy, Thomas, 60 Lessmann, Otto, 204–5, 206, 207–8, 212 Harrison, Beatrice, 29, 188 Liszt, Franz, 54, 67, 212 Hawkes&Co.,publisher,29 Christus, 212 Haydn, Joseph, 107 St Elizabeth, 212 Harmoniemesse, 113 Littleton, Sir Alfred Henry, 127 Hehemann, Max, 204, 205, 206–7, 208, 209, Littleton, Augustus, 29 210, 212 London, 7, 8, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 53, Hepokoski, James A., 10, 125, 126, 159, 168, 54, 61, 140, 144, 172, 216 169, 176 Abbey Road recording studio, 82 Hereford, 17, 21, 27, 32, 34, 36, 112, 113, 116, Cafe´ Royal, 103 142, 217 Central Hall, Westminster, 197, 202 Hereford Philharmonic Society, 17 Queen’s Hall, 19, 123, 185, 197, 216, 219 see also Three Choirs Festival St James’s Hall, 19 Heseltine, Philip, see Warlock, Peter see also Covent Garden Theatre, House of ‘His Master’s Voice’, see The Gramophone Lords, London Coliseum, London Company Symphony Orchestra, Promenade Hitler,Adolf,3 Concerts, Royal Academy of Music, Hobsbawm, Eric, 11 Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Hockman, Vera, 157 Music, Royal Philharmonic Society Holland, Vyvyan, 32 London Coliseum, 29, 172, 214, 217, 219, Holst, Gustav, 9, 21, 22, 23 221 House of Lords, 3 London Symphony Orchestra, 27, 123, 217 Howes, Frank, 15 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 26, 64, 70, 72, Humperdinck, Engelbert 73, 97 Hänsel und Gretel,66 Divine Tragedy, The,97 Hurlstone, William Hyperion: A Romance,64 Variations on a Swedish Air,21 Tales of a Wayside Inn, 26, 70 Lower Rhine Festival, 123, 205, 206 Indian Mutiny, 3, 172 Lucas, Stanley, publisher, 25 Indy, Vincent d’, 176 Lutyens, Sir Edwin, 172 Ireland, John, 15, 22 Lygon, Lady Margaret, 7

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MacCunn, Hamish, 171–2 Newman, Ernest, 42, 98–9, 148; advice to Elgar, Diarmid, 171–2 103; as musical confidant, 150, 165; McGuire, Charles Edward, 11, 87, 95, 98, 103 opinions of Elgar’s music, 8, 14, 15, Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell, 18, 20, 21, 100–1, 102, 154, 155–6, 157, 164, 210, 22, 23 219, 220 The Bride,18 Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 41, 64, 81, 83, Maclean, Charles, 86 85–6, 89–92, 93, 96, 210 Machaut, Guillaume de, 194 Apologia pro Vita Sua, 84, 90, 93 McVeagh, Diana, 1, 4, 11, 39, 172 Dream of Gerontius, The, 84, 85–6, 90, 91, 92 Mae hen wlad fy nhadau (‘The Land of My Niecks, Frederick, 147 Fathers’), 125 Nielsen, Carl, 10 Mahler, Gustav, 10, 176, 192; Elgar’s relation to SymphonyNo.5,126 Mahler, 11, 66, 129, 133, 151 Nietzel, Otto, 206, 209–10 Klagende Lied, Das,66–7 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 81, 86, 91 Maine, Basil, 4, 15, 30, 35, 109 Nordau, Max, 86 Mainzer, Joseph, 25 North Staffordshire Music Festival, 19, 26 Malory, Thomas Norwich Festival, 22 Le Morte d’Arthur, 174 Novello, publisher, 4, 19, 24–7, 28–31, 36, 63, Malvern, 18, 20, 34, 54, 75, 77 64, 112, 117, 141, 173, 215, 216, 219, St Wulstan’s RC Church, Little Malvern, 82 220 Manchester Guardian, The, 87, 148 Novello, J. Alfred, 25 Manns, August (Crystal Palace concerts), 5, 18, 19, 54, 141, 216 O’Neill, Norman, 22, 23 Mardon, Richard, see Elgar, Sir Edward Orr, C. W., 15 William, pseudonym Osbourne & Tuckwood, publisher, 25 Masefield, John, 30 O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, 11, 60, 61, 62 Massenet, Jules, 91 Ouseley, Sir FrederickArthur Gore, 17, 96, 103 Matthews, Bertram P., 174 Oxford English Dictionary,12 Meikle, Robert, 159–60 Oxford Movement, 89, 96 Mendelssohn, Felix, 17, 115, 206–7, 208, ‘Oxford School’, 15 212–13; influence on Elgar, 4, 54, 64, Oxford, University of, 20, 84, 217 75, 108, 142 Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, 146 Paganini, Nicolo` erste Walpurgisnacht, Die,64 24 Caprices,50 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 47, 58 Parker, Sir Gilbert, 221 Menuhin, Sir Yehudi, 1, 23, 154, 157, 193 Parratt, Sir Walter, 23 Metzler, publisher, 25 Parrott, Ian, 125 Mlynarsky, Emil, 218 Parry, Sir Hubert, 15, 18, 19–20, 21, 22, 108, Moeran, E. J., 15 148, 204, 207–8; Elgar’s opinion of Monckton, Lionel, 77 Parry’s music, 17, 20, 23, 112; Parry’s Monteverdi, Claudio, 194 opinion of Elgar’s music, 19–20, 88–9; Moore, George, 171 Blest Pair of Sirens, 18, 69, 207 Moore, Jerrold Northrop, 1, 13, 70, 98, 104, ‘Jerusalem’, 200 121–3, 125, 127, 132–3, 134, 162–4, Job,18,20 191–2, 193, 207 Judith,18,24,25 Mosse, George L., 90 Lady Radnor’s Suite, 123 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 5, 51, 107, 113, Lotus-Eaters, The,20 193 Ode on St Cecilia’s Day,18 Symphony No. 40, 51 Ode to Music,20 ‘thoroughbass treatise’ (attributed), 5, 111 Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy,18 Violin Sonata in F, K547, 113 Prometheus Unbound,17 Musical League, the, 22 Symphonic Variations, 23, 146 Musical Times [and Singing Class Circular], The, SymphonyNo.4,20,162 14, 15, 19, 24, 25, 27, 190, 220 Pater, Walter, 83–4, 85 Payne, Anthony, 1, 30, 169, 199 Newbould, Brian, 133 Pearn, Violet, 178, 182 New Cathedral Psalter, 109 Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 107 New English Dictionary, see Oxford English Philharmonic Society, see Royal Philharmonic Dictionary Society

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Pipe, Lucy, 50 Sinclair, G. R., 17, 112, 113, 116 Pitt, Percy, 22, 196, 201 Slatkin, Leonard, 191 Pius X, Pope, 108, 109 Smyth, Dame Ethel, 22 Poe, Edgar Allen, 39 Solti, Sir Georg, 191, 192 Pollitzer, Adolf, 5, 25, 50, 54 Spohr, Louis, 4, 107 Ponsonby, Sir Frederick, 106 St John, Ambrose, 90, 92 PowickLunatic Asylum, see Worcester Stainer, Sir John, 25, 96, 103 Price, Nancy, 35 The Daughter of Jairus, 17, 114 Promenade Concerts, 1, 141, 197 Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, 15, 20–1, 22, 96, Prowse, Keith, publisher, 30 112, 116 Puccini, Giacomo, 91 Requiem, 20 Purcell, Henry, 9, 16, 63, 103, 193 Seamus O’Brien,20 Three Holy Children, The,18 Ravel, Maurice Stockley, William Cole, 6, 17, 18, 52 Daphnis et Chloé, 176 Strauss, Richard, 4, 10, 21, 22, 116, 142, 192, Reading Gaol, 83–4, 93 206, 207, 210 Reed, W. H., 9, 15, 33, 82, 85–6, 105, 125, 130, Also sprach Zarathustra, 175 131, 132, 134 Don Juan, 10, 142 Reith, John (1st Baron), 195–6 Heldenleben, Ein, 61, 142, 166 Renan (Joseph-)Ernest, 101 Rosenkavalier, Der, 176 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 212 Sinfonia Domestica, 166 Rhodes, Cecil, 3 Till Eulenspiegel,10 Richards, Jeffrey, 12 Tod und Verklärung, 210 Richter, Hans, 19, 20, 21, 159, 162, 188, 192 Stravinsky, Igor, 154 Riley, Matthew, 14, 125–6 Petrushka, 131, 176 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich Rite of Spring, The, 175, 176 Sheherazade, 173 Strecker, Ludwig, 205 Roberts, Alice, see Elgar, Lady Stuart-Wortley, Alice (‘Windflower’), 7, 130, Roberts, Sir Henry Gee, 172 155, 159, 166 Rodewald, Alfred, 159 Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 16, 65, 76, 77, 108, 200 Ronald, Sir Landon, 187, 201–2 Suso, Heinrich, 211, 212 Rootham, C. B., 219 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 60 Royal Albert Hall, 77, 78, 141, 216 Royal College of Music, 12, 20–1, 23 Tasso, Torquato, 60 Royal Philharmonic Society, 16 Taylor, Ronald, 199 Rushton, Julian, 126 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il’yich, 65, 75, 120, 141 Russell, Bertrand, 3 Nutcracker, The,65 Sleeping Beauty, The,65 Said, Edward, 173 Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron of Aldworth and Sammons, Albert, 193 Freshwater, 25 Schobert, Johann, 4 In Memoriam A.H.H.,64 Schoenberg, Arnold, 154, 176 ‘Passing of Arthur, The’ (Idylls of the King), 75 Five Orchestral Pieces, 176 Terry, Charles Sanford, 160–2 Gurrelieder, 176 Terry, Sir Richard, 186 String Quartet No. 2, 133, 150 Thomson, Aidan, 86, 151 Scholes, Percy, 25 Thomson, Arthur, 82 Schott, publisher, 24, 25, 28, 108, 205 Three Choirs Festival, 6, 7, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, Schubert, Franz, 131 26, 51, 52, 95, 104, 113, 116, 139, 216, Schumann, Robert, 5, 11, 50, 53, 114 217 Thème sur le nom Abegg varié,50 Times, The, 100, 102 Shakespeare, William, 125, 127 Tor telier, Paul, 1 Shaw, George Bernard, 8, 9, 15, 30, 35, 63, 111, Toscanini, Arturo, 193 118, 190 Tours, Berthold, 25, 26 Sheffield Music Festival, 204, 206 Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 15, 157, 160 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 159 Tozer, Augustus Edmonds, 110 Adonais, 104 Trollope, Anthony, 100 Sibelius, Jean, 5, 10, 126, 133, 151 Trowell, Brian, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134 String Quartet (‘Voces Intimae’), 133, 134 Tuckwood, Charles, publisher, 25

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Turner, J. M. W., 210, 211–12 Walker, Ernest, 15 Turner, W. J., 87–8, 100 Walker, Gertrude, 24 Wallace, William, 22 Uhland, Frederick, 64 Walton, Sir William Turner, 9, 15 Belshazzar’s Feast,78 Vandervelde, Lalla, 35 Fa¸cade,13 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 15, 23, 88, 103, 106, Warlock, Peter, 15 108; Elgar’s influence on RVW, 9, 162; Weaver, Helen Jessie (‘Nellie’), 7, 24 Elgar’s opinion of RVW’s music, 22, Weber, Carl Maria von, 54, 64, 107 104; RVW’s opinion of Elgar, 21, 96, Euryanthe,66 101, 103 Webern, Anton von Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Concerto, 170 124 Weingartner, Felix, 204 Phantasy Quartet, 133 Wensley, Shapcott, 64, 70 Sancta Civitas, 104 Wesley, S. S., 108, 117, 162 Verdi, Giuseppe, 55, 75 West, John, 29, 31 Requiem, 55 Widor, Charles-Marie, 115 Te Deum,69 Wilde, Oscar, 32, 83–4, 85, 88, 89–90, 91, 92–4, Verlaine, Paul, 85, 91, 92 96, 97, 99, 100, 103, 105 Victoria, Queen, 79, 117 Critic as Artist, The,84 Diamond Jubilee, 26, 57, 78, 214, 216 De Profundis, 84, 93 Vierne, Louis, 115 ‘Rome Unvisited’, 84 Volbach, Fritz, 205–6, 208, 210–13 ‘San Miniato’, 84, 92 Volbach, Walther, 206, 210–11 Wilkinson Newholme, Sarah-Anne, 24 Volkert, Charles G. J., 25 Wolfram von Eschenbach, 95 Wolzogen, Hans, Freiherr von, 28, 95 Wagner, Richard, 52, 100, 102, 123, 150, 156, Wood, Sir Henry, 21, 22, 176, 191, 193, 197 192; Elgar’s Wagnerism, 4, 53, 54, 55, Worcester, 3, 7, 16, 17–19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 30, 37, 56, 57, 64–5, 66, 67, 68, 75, 83, 85–7, 52, 57, 58, 95, 104, 107, 113, 118, 139, 91, 96, 97–8, 103, 105, 116, 148, 177; 140 influence on Elgar reception, 28, 88, ‘Elgar Brothers’ (the family shop), 3, 6, 24, 207, 208; reception in England, 17, 88, 25, 37 103; Jaeger’s opinion of Wagner, 92, Glee Club, 6, 53 94–5 St George’s RC Church, 4, 24, 37, 52, 53, 107, Fliegende Holländer, Der,53 108, 112, 114 Jesus von Nazareth (projected), 95 Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Lohengrin, 53, 66, 85, 200, 208 Asylum (PowickLunatic Asylum), 6, Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die, 54, 55, 79, 37, 51–2, 140 144 WorcesterFestivalChoralSociety,17 Parsifal, 53, 55, 93, 95 Worcester Ladies’ Orchestral Class, 54 and decadence, 85, 87 Worcester Music Hall, 140 influence on Elgar, 73, 81, 86–7, 91, 92, see also Three Choirs Festival 97–8, 121, 148, 151 Worcestershire Philharmonic, 6, 17, 20 reception in England, 87–8 Worshipful Company of Musicians, 129 Ring des Nibelungen, Der, 55, 94–5, 102, Worthington, Julia, 7 132 Walküre, Die, 185 Yale University, 217 Siegfried,71,72 Yeats, W. B., 171 Götterdämmerung, 53, 55 Young, Percy M., 1, 121 Siegfried Idyll, 53, 123 Tannhäuser,53,85,91,97 Zeitschrift der internationalen Musikgesellschaft, Tristan und Isolde,53,55,58 206