The Music Makers

The Music Makers, op.69, is a work for contralto, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed on October 1, 1912.

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Contralto - Chorus - Orchestra - Edward Elgar - October 1 - 1912

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The text of the work is the 1874 poem "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, which Elgar set in its entirety. He had been working on the music intermittently since 1903, without a specific commission.

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1874 - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály also made a setting of the poem.

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