Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, born in the small village of Lower Broadheath outside Worcester, Worcestershire, to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.

References and Bibliography

• Michael Kennedy – Portrait of Elgar 3rd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
• Jerrold Northrop Moore – Edward Elgar: a creative life (Oxford: OUP, 1984)
• William H. Reed – Elgar as I knew him (Oxford: OUP, 1989)
• Percy Young – Alice Elgar: enigma of a Victorian lady (London: Dobson, 1978)
• Percy Young – Elgar OM: a study of a musician 2nd ed. (London: Purnell, 1973)
• James Hamilton-Patterson – Gerontius (Soho Press, 1989) is a historical novel that gives an imagined account of a cruise to South America that Elgar took in 1923.