List of compositions by Edward Elgar

The table below shows all known compositions by Edward Elgar.

## Compositions

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Works are shown in opus number order (Opp. 1–90), followed by those without opus number, in date order (1867–1933). The list includes incomplete and unpublished works.

Op. | Year | Title | Genre | Notes | Dedication | Words | Pub.

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1 | 1878 | Romance | chamber | violin and piano, also with orchestra | Oswin Grainger[1] | — | Schott
1a | 1907 | The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1 | orchestral | from music written 1867–71
1\. Overture
2\. Serenade
3\. Minuet (Old Style)
4\. Sun Dance
5\. Fairy Pipers
6\. Slumber Scene
7\. Fairies and Giants | C. Lee Williams[2] | — | Novello
1b | 1908 | The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 2 | orchestral | from music written 1867–71
1\. March
2\. The Little Bells (Scherzino)
3\. Moths and Butterflies (Dance)
4\. Fountain Dance
5\. The Tame Bear
6\. The Wild Bears | Hubert A. Leicester[3] | — | Novello
2 | 1887 | Three motets /
anthems | church | choir and organ, pub. 1902–1907
1\. "Ave verum corpus"/"Jesu, Word of God Incarnate"
2\. "Ave Maria"/"Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory"
3\. "Ave Maris Stella"/"Jesu, Meek and Lowly" | — | — | Novello
2.1 | 1902 | "Ave verum corpus" /
"Jesu, Word of God Incarnate" | church | motet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887 | 'In Memoriam – W. A. obit 27 January 1887.' (William Allen)[4] | Eucharistic Hymn | Novello
2.2 | 1907 | "Ave Maria" /
"Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory" | church | motet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887 | Mrs Hubert A. Leicester[5] | Eucharistic Hymn | Novello
2.3 | 1907 | "Ave Maris Stella" /
"Jesu, Meek and Lowly" | church | motet/anthem choir and organ,
written 1887 | Rev. Canon Dolman, O.S.B., Hereford [6] | Eucharistic Hymn | Novello
3 | 1912 | Cantique[7] | keyboard | organ, originally a wind quintet Andante arioso from Harmony Music No. 6 (1879), arr. organ and for orchestra | Hugh Blair | — | Novello
4 | 1883 | Three pieces | chamber | violin and piano
1\. Idylle (Esquisse Façile)
2\. Pastourelle
3\. Virelai | — | — | —
4.1 | 1883 | Idylle (Esquisse Façile) | chamber | violin and piano | E. E., Inverness[8] | — | Beare,
Ashdown
4.2 | 1883 | Pastourelle | chamber | violin and piano | Miss Hilda Fitton, Malvern[9] | — | Swan,
Novello
4.3 | 1883 | Virelai | chamber | violin and piano | Frank W. Webb[10] | — | Swan,
Novello
5 | 1903 | Two songs[11] | song | voice and piano
1\. "A War Song"
2\. unknown | — | — | —
5.1 | 1903 | "A War Song" | song | voice and piano, originally "A Soldier’s Song" (1884) | F. G. P., Worcester
(Frederick G. Pedley)[12] | C. Flavell Hayward[13] | Boosey
5.2 | 1903 | unknown | song | voice and piano | — | — | —
6 | 1878–81 | Wind Quintets | chamber | wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello[14]
see Op. 6.1 — Op. 6.6[15]
1\. Six Promenades
2\. Harmony Music, numbered 1 to 7
3\. Five Intermezzos
4\. Four Dances
5\. Andante con Variazioni "Evesham Andante"
6\. Adagio Cantabile "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
pub. posth., first perf. 1934,
see also Peckham March (1877) for the same group | — | — | —
6.1 | 1878 | Six Promenades | chamber | wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1\. Moderato e molto maestoso
2\. Moderato ”Madame Taussaud's"[sic][16]
3\. Presto
4\. Andante "Somniferous"
5\. Allegro molto
6\. Allegro Maestoso "Hell and Tommy" | — | — | Belwin
6.2 | 1878–81 | Harmony Music | chamber | Nos. 1–6 for wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon/cello, No. 7 a sextet, having also a part for violin.[17]
1\. Allegro Molto (1878)
2\. Allegro non tanto (1878)
3\. (Allegro) (1878, incomplete)
4\. Allegro molto "The Farm Yard" (1879)
5\. Allegro moderato "The Mission"; Menuetto and Trio; Andante "Noah's Ark"; Finale (Allegro) (1879)
6\. Allegro Molto; Andante arioso[18] (1879)
7\. Allegro; Scherzo (1881) | Frank Exton (No. 1)[19]
W. B. Leicester (2)[20]
Frank Elgar (3)[21] | — | Belwin
6.3 | 1879 | Five Intermezzos | chamber | wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1\. Allegro moderato "The Farmyard"
2\. Adagio Solenne
3\. Allegretto "Nancy"
4\. Andante con moto
5\. Allegretto | — | — | Belwin
6.4 | 1879 | Four Dances | chamber | wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
1\. Menuetto
2\. Gavotte "The Alphonsa"[22]
3\. Sarabande – Largo[23]
4\. Gigue – Allegro | — | — | Belwin
6.5 | 1879 | Andante con Variazione "Evesham Andante" | chamber | wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello | 'H. A. L.' (Hubert Leicester)[3] | — | —
6.6 | 1879 | Adagio Cantabile "Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup" | chamber | wind quintet: 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello | — | — | Belwin
7 | 1884 | Sevillaña | orchestral | — | W. C. Stockley | — | Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
8 | 1888 | Quartet | chamber | string quartet, destroyed[24] | — | — | —
9 | 1884? | Violin Sonata | chamber | violin and piano, destroyed | — | — | —
10 | 1899 | Three Characteristic Pieces | orchestral | 1\. Mazurka
2\. Sérénade Mauresque
3\. Contrasts: The Gavotte A.D. 1700 and 1900 | Lady Mary Lygon[25] | — | Novello
10.1 | 1899 | Mazurka | orchestral | — | Lady Mary Lygon[25] | — | Novello
10.2 | 1899 | Sérénade Mauresque | orchestral | — | Lady Mary Lygon[25] | — | Novello
10.3 | 1899 | Contrasts: The Gavotte A.D. 1700 and 1900 | orchestral | — | Lady Mary Lygon[25] | — | Novello
11 | 1894 | Sursum corda (Élévation) | orchestral | strings, brass, timpani and organ | H. Dyke Acland, Malvern[26] | — | Schott
12 | 1888 | Salut d'Amour (Liebesgruss) | chamber | violin and piano
also for piano, orchestra and numerous arrangements | à Carice (C. Alice Elgar) | — | Schott
13 | 1889–90 | Two pieces | chamber | violin and piano
1\. Mot d'Amour (1889)
2\. Bizarrerie (1890) | — | — | —
13.1 | 1889 | Mot d'Amour | chamber | violin and piano
first pub. as Liebesahnung, companion piece to Liebesgruss | Alice (C. Alice Elgar) | — | Ascherberg
13.2 | 1890 | Bizarrerie | chamber | violin and piano | Fred Ward[27] | — | Ascherberg
14 | 1890 | Vesper Voluntaries | keyboard | organ
Introduction,
1\. Andante,
2\. Allegro,
3\. Andantino (from Quartet in D, 1888),
4\. Allegro piacevole,
5\. Poco lento,
6\. Moderato,
7\. Allegretto pensoso,
8\. Poco allegro, Coda | Mrs W. A. Raikes[28] | — | Ascherberg
15 | 1897–99 | Two pieces | chamber | violin and piano
1\. Chanson de Nuit
2\. Chanson de Matin | — | — | —
15.1 | 1897 | Chanson de Nuit | chamber | violin and piano,
also orchestra (1899), numerous arrangements | F. Ehrke, M.D.[29] | — | Novello
15.2 | 1899 | Chanson de Matin | chamber | violin and piano,
also orchestra (1901), numerous arrangements | — | — | Novello
16 | 1885–94 | Three songs | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder
1\. "The Shepherd's Song" (1892)
2\. "Through the Long Days" (1885)
3\. "Rondel" (1894) | — | — | —
16.1 | 1892 | "The Shepherd's Song" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | — | Barry Pain | Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
16.2 | 1885 | "Through the Long Days" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | — | John Hay | Weber,
Ascherberg
16.3 | 1894 | "Rondel" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | — | Longfellow,
after Froissart | Ascherberg
17 | 1891 | La Capricieuse | chamber | violin and piano | Fred Ward[30] | — | Breitkopf & Härtel
18 | 1890 | Three part-songs | part-song | SATB unacc.
1\. "O Happy Eyes"
2\. "Love"
3\. "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land" | — | — | Novello
18.1 | 1890 | "O Happy Eyes" | part-song | SATB unacc. | — | C. Alice Elgar | Novello
18.2 | 1890 | "Love" | part-song | SATB unacc. | C. A. E. (C. Alice Elgar) | Arthur Maquarie | Novello
18.3[31] | 1890 | "My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land" | part-song | SATB unacc. | Rev. J. Hampton[32] | Andrew Lang | Novello
19 | 1890 | Froissart | orchestral | concert-overture | — | — | Novello
20 | 1888–92 | Serenade | orchestral | string orchestra,
revised version of Three Pieces for string orchestra
1\. Allegro piacevole
2\. Larghetto
3\. Allegretto | W. H. Whinfield[33] | — | Breitkopf & Härtel
21 | 1899 | Minuet | orchestral | originally for piano 1897 | Paul Kilburn[34] | — | Joseph Williams
22 | 1892 | Very Melodious Exercises in the First Position | chamber | violin and piano | May Grafton[35] | — | Chanot,
Laudy
23 | 1892 | "Spanish Serenade" | part-song | "Stars of the Summer Night".
SATB acc. 2 violins and piano,
also acc. orchestra 1893 | — | Longfellow | Novello
24 | 1892 | Études caractéristiques | chamber | violin solo | Adolphe Pollitzer | — | Chanot
25 | 1889–92 | The Black Knight | choral | symphony/cantata for chorus and orchestra, poem by Uhland, tr. Longfellow | Hugh Blair | Longfellow | Novello
26 | 1894 | Two part-songs | part-song | SSA acc. 2 violins and piano
1\. "The Snow"
2\. "Fly, Singing Bird" | Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern[36] | C. Alice Elgar | Novello
26.1 | 1894 | "The Snow" | part-song | SSA acc. 2 violins and piano,
also other vocal arrangements and with orchestra | Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern[36] | C. Alice Elgar | Novello
26.2 | 1894 | "Fly, Singing Bird" | part-song | SSA acc. 2 violins and piano,
also other vocal arrangements and with orchestra | Mrs E. B. Fitton, Malvern[36] | C. Alice Elgar | Novello
27 | 1895–96 | From the Bavarian Highlands | choral | choral-songs SATB and orchestra
1\. "The Dance" (Sonnenbichl)
2\. "False Love" (Wamberg)
3\. "Lullaby" (In Hammersbach)
4\. "Aspiration" (Bei Sankt Anton)
5\. "On the Alm" 'True Love'(Hoch Alp)
6\. "The Marksmen (Bei Murnau)"
Nos. 1, 3 and 6 arr. for orchestra as Three Bavarian Dances | Mr and Mrs Henry Slingsby Bethell, Garmisch, Bavaria[37] | C. Alice Elgar,
adapted from Bavarian folksongs | Joseph Williams
27 | 1898 | Three Bavarian Dances | orchestral | songs from From the Bavarian Highlands arranged for orchestra
1\. "The Dance" (Sonnenbichl)
2\. "Lullaby" (In Hammersbach)
3\. "The Marksmen (Bei Murnau)"
also for piano solo, and violin and piano | — | — | Joseph Williams
28 | 1898 | Organ Sonata in G | keyboard | organ | Dr. C. Swinnerton Heap | — | Breitkopf
29 | 1896 | The Light of Life | choral | (Lux Christi)
soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra | Dr. C. Swinnerton Heap | Rev. E. Capel-Cure,
adapted from the Scriptures | Novello
30 | 1896 | Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf | choral | cantata for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
incl. part-song "As torrents in summer" pub. separately | — | Longfellow
and Harry Arbuthnot Acworth | Novello
31 | 1900 | Two songs | song | voice and piano
1\. "After"
2\. "A Song of Flight" | — | — | —
31.1 | 1900 | "After" | song | voice and piano | — | Philip Bourke Marston | Boosey
31.2 | 1900 | "A Song of Flight" | song | voice and piano | — | Christina Rossetti | Boosey
32 | 1897 | Imperial March | orchestral | for the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen's accession, also arr. piano |  for H.M. Queen Victoria | — | Novello
33 | 1897 | The Banner of St. George | choral | ballad for chorus and orchestra | — | Shapcott Wensley | Novello
34 | 1897 | Te Deum and Benedictus | church | choir and organ | — | Hymn
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah) | Novello
35 | 1897–98 | Caractacus | choral | cantata for soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra | H.M. Queen Victoria | H. A. Acworth[38] | Novello
36 | 1899 | Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) | orchestral | Theme Enigma (andante)
I. C.A.E. (andante)
II. H.D.S.-P. (allegro)
III. R.B.T. (allegretto)
IV. W.M.B. (allegro di molto)
V. R.P.A. (moderato)
VI. Ysobel (andantino)
VII. Troyte (presto)
VIII. W.N. (allegretto)
IX. Nimrod (adagio)
X. Intermezzo, Dorabella (allegretto)
XI. G.R.S. (allegro di molto)
XII. B.G.N. (andante)
XIII. Romanza "***" (moderato)
Finale E.D.U. (allegro) | 'To my friends pictured within':
Caroline Alice Elgar
Hew David Steuart-Powell
Robert Baxter Townshend
William Meath Baker
Richard Penrose Arnold
Isabel Fitton
Arthur Troyte Griffith
Winifred Norbury
August Jaeger
Dora Penny
George Robertson Sinclair
Basil George Nevinson
Lady Mary Lygon
Edward Elgar | — | Novello
37 | 1897–99 | Sea Pictures | song | song-cycle for contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
1\. "Sea-Slumber Song"
2\. "In Haven (Capri)"
3\. "Sabbath Morning at Sea"
4\. "Where Corals Lie"
5\. "The Swimmer" | — | — | Boosey
37.1 | 1899 | "Sea-Slumber Song" | song | from Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano) | — | Hon. Roden Noel | Boosey
37.2 | 1899 | "In Haven (Capri)" | song | from Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano)
pub. 1897 as Love alone will stay | — | C. Alice Elgar | Boosey
37.3 | 1899 | "Sabbath Morning at Sea" | song | from Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano) | — | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Boosey
37.4 | 1899 | "Where Corals Lie" | song | from Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano) | — | Richard Garnett | Boosey
37.5 | 1899 | "The Swimmer" | song | from Sea Pictures
contralto or mezzo-soprano and orchestra (or piano) | — | Adam Lindsay Gordon | Boosey
38 | 1899–1900 | The Dream of Gerontius | choral | for mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra | A.M.D.G. | Cardinal Newman | Novello
39 | 1901–30 | Pomp and Circumstance Marches | orchestral | 1\. in D (1901)
2\. in A minor (1901)
3\. in C minor (1904)
4\. in G (1907)
5\. in C (1930)
6\. sketches[39] | — | — | —
39.1 | 1901 | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D | orchestral | the trio contains the tune known as Land of Hope and Glory | A. E. Rodewald and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society | — | Boosey
39.2 | 1901 | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2 in A minor | orchestral | — | Granville Bantock | — | Boosey
39.3 | 1904 | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 3 in C minor | orchestral | — | Ivor Atkins | — | Boosey
39.4 | 1907 | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G | orchestral | in 1940 set to words by A. P. Herbert as Song of Liberty | G. R. Sinclair | — | Boosey
39.5 | 1930 | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C | orchestral | — | Dr. Percy C. Hull, Hereford | — | Boosey
39.6 | 1930 | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6 in G minor | orchestral | "elaborated" from sketches by Anthony Payne, 2006 | — | — | Boosey
40 | 1900–01 | Cockaigne (In London Town) | orchestral | concert-overture | 'My friends, the Members of British Orchestras' | — | Boosey
41 | 1901 | Two songs | song | 1\. "In the Dawn"
2\. "Speak, Music!" | — | — | —
41.1 | 1901 | "In the Dawn" | song | voice and piano | — | A. C. Benson | Boosey
41.2 | 1901 | "Speak, Music!" | song | voice and piano | Mrs E. Speyer, Ridghurst[40] | A. C. Benson | Boosey
42 | 1901 | Grania and Diarmid | incidental | music for a play by George Moore and W. B. Yeats,
for orchestra and contralto soloist
1\. Incidental Music and Funeral March
2\. Song, "There are seven that pull the thread" | Henry J. Wood | — | Novello
42.1 | 1901 | Incidental Music and Funeral March | incidental | music for orchestra,
for a play Grania and Diarmid by George Moore and W. B. Yeats | Henry J. Wood | — | Novello
42.2 | 1901 | "There are seven that pull the thread" | song | for contralto soloist and orchestra,
for a play Grania and Diarmid by George Moore and W. B. Yeats | Henry J. Wood | W. B. Yeats | Novello
43 | 1902 | Dream Children | orchestral | Enfants d'un Rêve
two pieces for small orchestra,
after Charles Lamb,
also for piano
1\. Andante
2\. Allegretto piacevole | — | — | Joseph Williams,
Schott
44 | 1902 | Coronation Ode | choral | for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus SATB and orchestra
I. "Crown the King", for soloists and chorus
II(a). "The Queen", for chorus
II(b). "Daughter of ancient Kings", for chorus
III. "Britain, ask of thyself", for bass solo and men's chorus
IV (a). "Hark upon the hallowed air", for soprano and tenor soloists
IV(b). "Only let the heart be pure", for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists
V. "Peace, gentle peace", for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists and chorus unaccompanied
VI. Finale "Land of Hope and Glory", for contralto solo, with chorus (separate song 1902) | H.M. King Edward VII | A. C. Benson | Boosey
45 | 1902 | Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology | part-song | TTBB,
words tr. from the Greek Anthology
1\. "Yea, cast me from height of the mountains"
2\. "Whether I find thee"
3\. "After many a dusty mile"
4\. "It's oh! to be a wild wind"
5\. "Feasting I watch" | Sir Walter Parratt | — | Novello
45.1 | 1902 | "Yea, cast me from height of the mountains" | part-song | TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.) | Sir Walter Parratt | Alma Strettell | Novello
45.2 | 1902 | "Whether I find thee" | part-song | TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.) | Sir Walter Parratt | Andrew Lang | Novello
45.3 | 1902 | "After many a dusty mile" | part-song | TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.) | Sir Walter Parratt | Edmund Gosse | Novello
45.4 | 1902 | "It's oh! to be a wild wind" | part-song | TTBB, words tr. from the Greek Anthology (anon.) | Sir Walter Parratt | William M. Hardinge | Novello
45.5 | 1902 | "Feasting I watch" | part-song | TTBB, words tr. from poem by Marcus Argentarius | Sir Walter Parratt | Richard Garnett | Novello
46 | 1901 | Concert Allegro[41] | concertante | for piano, orchestra part possibly added | Written for Fanny Davies | — | ?
47 | 1904–05 | Introduction and Allegro | orchestral | for strings (quartet and orchestra) | Prof. S. S. Sanford,
Yale University | — | Novello
48 | 1908 | "Pleading" | song | voice and piano,
pub. as Op. 48, No. 1, but no other Op. 48 works exist | Lady Maud Warrender[42] | Arthur L. Salmon[43] | Novello
48 | 1908 | Pleading | orchestral | arrangement with flute, oboe, clarinet, cornet, or violin solo | — | — | Elgar Complete Works, Vol. 23
49 | 1902–03 | The Apostles | choral | oratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor and three bass soloists, chorus and orchestra,
compiled from the Scriptures by the composer | A.M.D.G. | The Holy Scriptures | Novello
50 | 1903–04 | In the South (Alassio) | orchestral | concert-overture | Leo F. Schuster | — | Novello
51 | 1901–06 | The Kingdom | choral | oratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra,
compiled from the Scriptures by the composer | A.M.D.G. | The Holy Scriptures | Novello
52 | 1907 | "A Christmas Greeting" | part-song | carol for 2 sopranos, male chorus ad lib, 2 violins and piano | Dr. G. R. Sinclair and the choristers of Hereford Cathedral | C. Alice Elgar | Novello
53 | 1907 | Four part-songs | part-song | SATB unacc.
1\. "There is sweet Music"
2\. "Deep in my Soul"
3\. "O Wild West Wind"
4\. "Owls (An Epitaph)" | — | — | Novello
53.1 | 1907 | "There is sweet Music" | part-song | part-song SSAATTBB unacc. | Canon Gorton[44] | Lord Tennyson | Novello
53.2 | 1907 | "Deep in my Soul" | part-song | SATB unacc. | Julia H. Worthington[45] | Lord Byron | Novello
53.3 | 1907 | "O Wild West Wind" | part-song | SATB unacc. | Dr. W. G. McNaught[46] | Shelley | Novello
53.4 | 1907 | "Owls (An Epitaph)" | part-song | SATB unacc. | — | Pietro d'Alba[47] | Novello
54 | 1907 | "The Reveille" | part-song | TTBB unacc. | Henry C. Embleton[48] | Bret Harte | Novello
55 | 1907–08 | Symphony No. 1 in A flat | orchestral |  | Hans Richter, Mus. Doc. | — | Novello
56 | 1909 | "Angelus (Tuscany)" | part-song | SATB unacc. | Mrs. Charles Stuart-Wortley (Alice Stuart-Wortley, 'Windflower')[49] | adapted from the Tuscan dialect | Novello
57 | 1909 | "Go, Song of Mine" | part-song | SSAATB unacc. | Alfred H. Littleton[50] | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, tr. from Cavalcanti | Novello
58 | 1909 | Elegy | orchestral | string orchestra | Rev. R. H. Hadden | — | Novello
59 | 1910 | Three songs[51] | song | 1\. & 2\. not published
3\. "Oh, soft was the song"
4\. not published
5\. "Was it some Golden Star?"
6\. "Twilight" | — | Gilbert Parker | —
59.3 | 1910 | "Oh, soft was the song" | song | mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra | — | Gilbert Parker | Novello
59.5 | 1910 | "Was it some Golden Star?" | song | mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra | — | Gilbert Parker | Novello
59.6 | 1910 | "Twilight" | song | mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra | — | Gilbert Parker | Novello
60 | 1909–10 | Two songs | song | 1\. "The Torch"
2\. "The River" | — | Pietro d'Alba[47] | —
60.1 | 1909 | "The Torch" | song | mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra | Yvonne[52] | Pietro d'Alba[47] | Novello
60.2 | 1910 | "The River" | song | mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra
'Folk-Song (Eastern Europe) paraphrased by Pietro d'Alba' | — | Pietro d'Alba[47] | Novello
61 | 1901–10 | Violin Concerto in B minor | concertante | violin and orchestra | Fritz Kreisler | — | Novello
62 | 1910 | Romance | concertante | bassoon (or cello) and orchestra | Edwin F. James[53] | — | Novello
63 | 1909–11 | Symphony No. 2 in E flat | orchestral |  | In memory of H.M. King Edward VII | — | Novello
64 | 1911 | "O Hearken Thou" | church | Coronation Offertorium "Intende voci orationis meæ", for choir and orchestra, for the Coronation of King George V | H.M. King George V | Psalm 5 | Novello
65 | 1911 | Coronation March | orchestral |  | H.M. King George V | — | Novello
66 | 1911–12 | The Crown of India | incidental | Imperial Masque for contralto and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra
1a. Introduction, 1b. Sacred Measure,
2\. Dance of Nautch Girls, 2a. India Greets her Cities,
3\. Song: "Hail, Immemorial Ind!",
3a. Entrance of Calcutta, 3b. Entrance of Delhi,
4a. Introduction, 4b. March of the Mogul Emperors,
5\. Entrance of "John Company", 5a. Entrance of St George,
6\. Song: "The Rule of England",
7\. Interlude,
8a. Introduction, 8b. Warrior's Dance,
9\. The Cities of Ind,
11\. The Crowning of Delhi,
12\. "Ave Imperator!"
also Suite from the Crown of India for orchestra | — | Henry Hamilton | Enoch
67 | 1912 | "Great is the Lord" | church | anthem, choir SSAATB, bass solo, and organ | Dean of Wells,
J. Armitage Robinson, D.D. | Psalm 48 | Novello
68 | 1913 | Falstaff | orchestral | symphonic study for orchestra,
after Shakespeare, King Henry IV and V | Landon Ronald | — | Novello
69 | 1912 | The Music Makers | choral | ode for contralto or mezzo-soprano soloist, chorus SATB and orchestra | Nicholas Kilburn[54] | Arthur O'Shaughnessy | Novello
70 | 1914 | Sospiri | orchestral | string orchestra, harp and organ (or harmonium) | W. H. Reed | — | Breitkopf & Härtel
71 | 1914 | Two part-songs | part-song | SATB unacc.
1\. "The Shower"
2\. "The Fountain" | — | — | —
71.1 | 1914 | "The Shower" | part-song | SATB unacc. | Miss Frances Smart[55] | Henry Vaughan | Novello
71.2 | 1914 | "The Fountain" | part-song | SATB unacc. | W. Mann Dyson[56] | Henry Vaughan | Novello
72 | 1914 | "Death on the Hills" | part-song | choral-song SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov[57] | Lady Colvin[58] | Rosa Newmarch | Novello
73 | 1914 | Two part-songs | part-song | SATB unacc.
1\. "Love's Tempest"
2\. "Serenade" | — | — | —
73.1 | 1914 | "Love's Tempest" | part-song | SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov[57] | Prof. C. Sanford Terry | Rosa Newmarch | Novello
73.2 | 1914 | "Serenade" | part-song | SATB unacc.,
words tr. from the Russian of Maikov[57] | Percy C. Hull | Rosa Newmarch | Novello
74 | 1914 | "Give unto the Lord" | church | anthem SATB, organ and orchestra | Sir George Martin, M.V.O., Mus.D. | Psalm 29 | Novello
75 | 1914 | Carillon | orchestral | recitation with orchestra | — | Émile Cammaerts | Elkin
76 | 1915 | Polonia | orchestral | symphonic prelude | I. J. Paderewski | — | Elkin
77 | 1915 | Une voix dans le désert | orchestral | recitation with soprano solo and orchestra,
includes the song "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront" (When the spring comes round) | — | Émile Cammaerts | Elkin
77.1 | 1915 | "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront" (When the spring comes round | song | from Une voix dans le désert, Op. 77 | — | Émile Cammaerts | Elkin
78 | 1915–16 | The Starlight Express | incidental | baritone and soprano soloists and orchestra,
music to a play adapted from a story A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood,
includes the organ-grinder’s songs:
1\. "To the Children"
2\. "The Blue-Eyes Fairy"
3\. "My Old Tunes" | — | Algernon Blackwood | Elkin
79 | 1917 | Le drapeau belge (The Belgian Flag) | orchestral | recitation with orchestra, tr. Lord Curzon of Kedleston | — | Émile Cammaerts | Elkin
80 | 1915–17 | The Spirit of England | choral | tenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestra
1\. The Fourth of August (1917)
2\. To Women (1915)
3\. For the Fallen (1915) | 'To the memory of our glorious men, with a special thought for the Worcesters' | — | Novello
80.1 | 1917 | The Fourth of August | choral | tenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestra,
from The Winnowing Fan by Binyon | — | Laurence Binyon | Novello
80.2 | 1915 | To Women | choral | tenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestra | — | Laurence Binyon | Novello
80.3 | 1915 | For the Fallen | choral | tenor or soprano solo, chorus and orchestra | — | Laurence Binyon | Novello
80.3 | 1920 | With Proud Thanksgiving | choral | chorus SATB and orchestra,
a simpler version of For the Fallen, for the dedication of the Cenotaph | League of Arts[59] | Laurence Binyon | Novello
81 | 1917 | The Sanguine Fan | ballet | ballet music for orchestra.[60] Echo's Dance arranged for piano | — | — | MS
81 | 1917 | Echo's Dance | arrangement | from The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81, arranged for piano | — | — | Elkin
82 | 1918 | Violin Sonata in E minor | chamber | violin and piano | 'M. J. – 1918'
(Marie Joshua)[61] | — | Novello
83 | 1918 | String Quartet in E minor | chamber | string quartet | Brodsky Quartet[62] | — | Novello
84 | 1918–19 | Piano Quintet in A minor | chamber | string quartet and piano | Ernest Newman | — | Novello
85 | 1918–19 | Cello Concerto in E minor | concertante | cello and orchestra | Sidney and Frances Colvin | — | Novello
86 | 1921–22 | Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
(J. S. Bach) | arrangement | transcription for orchestra, Fantasia 1921, Fugue 1922 | — | — | Novello
87 | 1930 | The Severn Suite | brass band | transcribed for orchestra (1932))
1\. Introduction (Worcester Castle)
2\. Toccata (Tournament)
3\. Fugue (The Cathedral) (1923)
4\. Minuet (Commandery)
5\. Coda | G. Bernard Shaw | — | R Smith
87a | 1933 | Organ Sonata No. 2 | keyboard | arrangement of The Severn Suite for organ by Ivor Atkins | — | — | Keith Prowse
88 | 1932–34 | Symphony No. 3 | orchestral | posth. Op. 88,
sketches, elaborated by Anthony Payne 1972–97 | — | — | Boosey
89 | 1933 | The Spanish Lady | opera | libretto by Elgar and Sir Barry Jackson after Ben Jonson, planned in two acts but incomplete, posth. Suite for string orchestra ed. Percy M. Young[63]
songs:1. "Modest and Fair"
2\. "Still to be Neat"
also suite for strings ed. Young (1956) | — | Ben Jonson | Elkin
90 | 1909–25 | Piano Concerto | concertante | piano and orchestra,
posth. Op. 90,
sketches, 1909–25, elaborated by Robert Walker 1997 | — | — | ?
1001 | 1919 | The Smoking Cantata | song | baritone soloist and orchestra[64][65] | — | — | ?
| 1867 | Humoreske 'a tune from Broadheath' | piano | later used for Fairies and Giants in The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1, see Op. 1a | — | — | —
| 1867 | The Wand of Youth | incidental | music for a children’s play,
assembled as two orchestral suites in 1907, see Op. 1a and Op. 1b | — | — | —
| 1868 | Kyrie Eleison in A | church | choir SATB | — | — | —
| 1870 | Fugue in G minor | keyboard | for organ [?], c. 1870, unfinished | — | — | —
| 1872 | "The Language of Flowers" | song | voice and piano, unpub. | 'The Music composed & dedicated to my sister Lucy' [66] | The Poetry by Percival[67] | MS
| 1872 | Chantant | keyboard | piano solo | — | — | MS
| 1872 | Gloria | church | for choir and organ, arr. using the piano part of the Allegro from Violin Sonata in F, K.547
(Mozart) | — | — | MS
| 1873 | Credo | arrangement | choir and organ, themes from Symphonies V VII and IX (Beethoven)
"arr. Bernard Pappenheim"[68] [comment by Elgar] | — | — | MS
| 1874 | Anthem | arrangement | arr. for strings, with original introduction | — | — | MS
| 1875 | "The Self Banished" | song | soprano or tenor acc. piano, unpub. | — | Edmund Waller | MS
| 1876 | Salve Regina | church | in D, choir and organ | — | — | MS
| 1876 | Tantum Ergo | church | in D, choir and organ | — | Eucharistic Hymn | MS
| 1877 | "O Salutaris Hostia" | church | in G, bass solo and organ | — | O Salutaris Hostia | MS
| 1877 | Credo in E minor | church | choir and organ | — | Nicene Creed | MS
| 1877 | Gloria | church | choir SATB and organ | — | — | MS
| 1877 | Kyrie | church | choir STB | — | — | MS
| 1877 | Five well-known pieces | arrangement | arr. as studies for the violin, at the suggestion of Adolphe Pollitzer
1\. Larghetto (Mozart)
2\. Cavatina (Raff)
3\. Romance (de Bériot)
4\. Romance (Vieuxtemps)
5\. Gigue (Ries) | — | — | Schott
| 1877 | Peckham March | chamber | Harmony Music for wind quintet:
2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon/cello
see also Op. 6.1 — Op. 6.6 | — | — | MS
| 1877 | Reminiscences | chamber | violin and piano | O. G.[69] | — | MS
| 1877 | Exercise for the 3rd finger | chamber | violin solo | Jascha Heifetz (1920)[70] | — | MS
| 1878 | Adeste Fideles
(John F. Wade) | arrangement | arr. for orchestra | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Violin Sonata Op. 23, finale
(Beethoven) | arrangement | arr. for wind quintet | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Concerto X
(Corelli) | arrangement | arr. for wind quintet | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Ariodante overture
(Handel) | arrangement | arr. for small orchestra | — | — | MS
| 1878 | O ‘tis a glorious sight from Oberon
(Weber) | arrangement | arr. for small orchestra | F. G. Pedley[12] | — | MS
| 1878 | Fantasia | chamber | violin and piano, unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Fugue in D minor | chamber | oboe and violin | Frank Elgar[71] and Karl Bammert[72] | — | MS
| 1878 | String Quartet in D | chamber | unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1878 | String Quartet in B♭ | chamber | unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1878 | String Trio in C | chamber | unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Trio | chamber | 2 violins and piano, unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Allegro | chamber | oboe, violin, viola and cello, unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Menuetto (Scherzo) | chamber | re-copied 1930 | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Symphony in G minor after Mozart | orchestral | part of first movement exists | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Introductory Overture for Christy Minstrels | orchestral | — | — | — | MS
| 1878 | "Brother, For Thee He Died" (Easter Anthem) | church | choir and organ | — | — | MS
| 1878 | "Praise ye the Lord" | church | hymn tune, revised as Good Morrow[73] | — | —
| 1878 | "Now with the fast-departing light" | church | hymn tune in G, choir and organ, 'Broadheath' | — | Edward Caswall | MS
| 1878 | "Hear Thy children" | church | hymn tune in F, choir and organ, pub. 1896 as Drakes Broughton in Westminster Hymnal, and Parish Hymn Book (Nos. 189/190), also used in Nursery Suite (Aubade) | — | Francis Stanfield | Cary
| 1878 | "If She Love Me" (Temple Bar Rondeau) | song | voice and piano | — | — | MS
| 1878 | Minuet in G minor | orchestral | minuet for Powick Asylum band:
flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | — | — | MS
| 1879 | "Domine Salvam fac reginam" | church | motet, choir and organ | — | Latin hymn | MS
| 1879–84 | Powick Asylum Music | orchestral | for Powick Asylum band:
1\. La Brunette (1879)
2\. Die Junge Kokette (1879)
3\. L'Assomoir (1879)
4\. The Valentine (1879)
5\. Maud (1880)
6\. Paris (1880)
7\. Nelly[74] (1881)
8\. La Blonde (1882)
9\. Helcia (1883)
10\. Blumine (1884) | — | — | MS
| 1879 | La Brunette | orchestral | 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | Geo. Jenkins Esq.[75] | — | MS
| 1879 | Die Junge Kokette | orchestral | 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano |  Miss J. Holloway[76] | — | MS
| 1879 | Two Polonaises | chamber | violin and piano, unfinished | " J. H. [Miss J. Holloway] with esteem"[76] | — | MS
| 1879 | L'Assomoir | orchestral | 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | — | — | MS
| 1879 | The Valentine | orchestral | 5 Lancers for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | — | — | MS
| 1879 | Minuet-grazioso | orchestral | lost or destroyed | — | —
| 1880 | Maud | orchestral | polka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | — | — | MS
| 1880 | Paris | orchestral | 5 Quadrilles for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano
1\. Châtelet
2\. L'Hippodrome
3\. Alcazar d'Été (Champs-Élysées)
4\. La! Suzanne
5\. Café des Ambassadeurs: "La femme de l'emballeur" | Miss J. Holloway, Powycke[76] | — | MS
| 1880 | Violin Sonata in F, K.547
(Mozart) | arrangement | arr. as Gloria | — | — | MS
| 1880 | "O Salutaris Hostia" | church | in F, choir and organ | — | O Salutaris Hostia | MS
| 1880 | "O Salutaris Hostia" | church | in E-flat, choir and organ | — | O Salutaris Hostia | MS
| 1881 | Fantasy on Irish Airs | chamber | violin and piano, unfinished | — | — | MS
| 1881 | Fugue in F♯ minor | chamber | incomplete – later copied for The Spanish Lady | — | — | MS
| 1881 | Nelly[74] | orchestral | polka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, viola, double bass and piano | Fras. Thos. Elgar[77] | — | MS
| 1882 | La Blonde | orchestral | polka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, clarinet, 2 cornets, trombone, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | 'H. J. W.' (Helen Weaver)[74] | — | MS
| 1882 | Douce Pensée | chamber | violin, cello and piano,
pub. 1915 as Rosemary | — | — | MS
| 1882 | Suite in D | orchestral | 1\. Mazurka
2\. Intermezzo-Sérénade Mauresque
3\. Fantasia gavotte
4\. Marche – Pas Redoublé
Revised 1899 as Three Characteristic Pieces (see Op. 10) | — | — | MS
| 1882 | "O Salutaris Hostia" | church | in E-flat, bass solo and organ | — | O Salutaris Hostia | MS
| 1882 | Benedictus in G | church | for choir, organ and strings | — | — | MS
| 1882 | Four Litanies for the Blessed Virgin Mary | church | choir unacc. | Fr. T. Knight, S.J., Worcester[78] | — | Cary
| 1882 | Air de Ballet – Pastorale | orchestral | perf. Worcester | — | — | MS
| 1882 | Marche – Pas Redoublé | orchestral | perf. Worcester Marche incorporated into The Spanish Lady and Suite in D | — | — | MS
| 1882 | Air de Ballet | orchestral | perf. Worcester | — | — | MS
| 1883 | Scherzo
(Schumann) | arrangement | arr. Scherzo from Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52,
for piano solo | — | — | MS
| 1883 | Entry of the Minstrels from Tannhaüser Act III,
(Wagner) | arrangement | for piano | — | — | MS
| 1883 | Helcia | orchestral | polka for Powick Asylum band:
piccolo, clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, viola, double bass and piano | — | — | MS
| 1884 | Blumine | orchestral | polka for Powick Asylum band:
clarinet, 2 cornets, euphonium, bombardon, 1st & 2nd violins, double bass and piano | — | — | MS
| 1884 | Griffinesque | keyboard | piano, pub. posth. by Novello | — | — | Novello
| 1884 | "A Soldier’s Song" | song | see "A War Song", Op. 5.1 | — | — | —
| 1885 | "Clapham Town End" | song | low voice and piano,
arrangement of an old Yorkshire[79] folksong, unpub. "An old Yorkshire ballad taken down from the singing of old Tommy Kerr [?] as he got it from his grandfather. Harmonised in strict accordance with the spirit of the age" [comment by Elgar] | Dr. C. W. Buck[80] | trad. | Young[81]
| 1885 | "Clapham Town End" | arrangement | see Clapham Town End, song | — | —
| 1885 | Gavotte | chamber | violin and piano | Dr. C. W. Buck,[80] Settle | — | Schott
| 1885 | Absent and Present
(Maude Valérie White) | arrangement | cello obbligato, end note – "Lobster cutlets! Oh!!!!!!" [comment by Elgar] | — | — | MS
| 1885 | Out on the Rocks
(C. H. Dolby) | arrangement | cello obbligato | — | — | MS
| 1885 | Melody
(C. W. Buck) | arrangement | piano accompaniment for cello | — | — | MS
| 1885 | The Lakes overture | orchestral | MS lost | — | —
| 1885 | Scottish Overture | orchestral | MS lost | — | —
| 1886 | Petite reine – Berceuse,
(G. F. Blackbourne)[82] | arrangement | violin and piano, pub. 1907 | — | — | Willcocks & Co.
| 1886 | "Is she not passing fair?"[83] | song | pub. 1908, Lay, tr. from poem by Charles, Duke of Orléans (1391–1466) | — | Louisa Stuart Costello | Boosey
| 1886 | Trio | chamber | violin, cello and piano, fragment only of first movement, "Sans"[84] | — | — | MS
| 1886 | Enina Valse | keyboard | piano,
dated Malvern Wells 21 Dec 1886 | — | — | MS
| 1887 | Duett for trombone and double bass | chamber | trombone and double bass,
pub. 1970, ed. Rodney Slatford | Frank William Weaver, on his wedding-day[74] | — | Yorke
| 1888 | "As I laye a-thynkynge" | song | voice and piano,
the last lines of Thomas Ingoldsby | — | Thomas Ingoldsby | Beare
| 1888 | "The Wind at Dawn" | song | voice and piano | Ludwig Wüllner[85] | C. Alice Roberts (Elgar) | Boosey
| 1888 | Allegretto on G.E.D.G.E.[7] | chamber | violin and piano | The Misses Gedge, Malvern Wells[86] | — | Schott
| 1888 | "Ecce Sacerdos Magnus" | church | choir and organ | Hubert Leicester, Worcester[3] | Liturgy | Cary
| 1888 | "O Salutaris Hostia" | church | choir, written 1880 | — | O Salutaris Hostia | Cary
| 1888 | Liebesgruss | chamber | see Salut d'Amour, Op. 12 | — | — | —
| 1889 | Liebesahnung | chamber | see Mot d'Amour, Op. 13.1 | — | —
| 1889 | "Queen Mary's Song" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | J. H. Meredith[87] | Alfred Tennyson | Orsborn & Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
| 1889 | Presto | keyboard | piano | — | —
| 1890 | "Man" | song | voice and piano | — | —
| 1890 | Violin Concerto | concertante | destroyed | — | —
| 1892 | "A Song of Autumn" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | Miss Marshall[88] | Adam Lindsay Gordon | Orsborn & Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
| 1892 | "Like to the Damask Rose" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | — | Simon Wastell[89]
or Francis Quarles | Tuckwood,
Ascherberg
| 1892 | "The Poet's Life" | song | voice and piano,
repub. 1907 in Seven Lieder | — | Ellen Burroughs[90] | Ascherberg
| 1892 | "A spear, a sword" | song | voice and piano, unpub. | — | C. Alice Elgar[91]
| 1892 | Mill-wheel Songs[92] | song | voice and piano, unpub.
1\. "Winter"
2\. "May (a rhapsody)" | — | C. Alice Elgar
| 1894 | "The Wave"[93] | song | voice and piano, unpub. | — | —
| 1894 | "Muleteer's Song" | song | voice and piano[93] | — | Barry Pain[94]
| 1894 | Parsifal, Good Friday Music (Wagner) | arrangement | for small orchestra, Worcester High School | — | —
30 | 1896 | "As torrents in summer" | part-song | SATB unacc., from Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30, pub. separately, | — | Longfellow | Novello
29 | 1896 | "Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars" | song | tenor solo and chorus TTBB, from The Light of Life, Op. 29, pub. separately | — | Rev. E. Capel-Cure | Novello
29 | 1896 | "Doubt not thy Father's care" | song | duet, soprano and alto, from The Light of Life, Op. 29, pub. separately | — | Rev. E. Capel-Cure | Novello
35 | 1897 | "The Sword Song" | song | baritone, from Caractacus, Op. 35, pub. separately | H.M Queen Victoria | H. A. Acworth | Novello
| 1897 | "Roundel: The little eyes that never knew Light" | song | voice and piano, composed 1887, unpub. | — | A. C. Swinburne | MS
| 1897 | "Grete Malverne on a Rocke" | part-song | Christmas carol SATB unacc.,
pub. 1909 as Lo, Christ the Lord is born | — | trad.[95] | Christmas Card
| 1898 | "The Holly and the Ivy" | arrangement | Christmas carol,
chorus and orchestra | — | trad.
| 1898 | Festival March in C | choral | chorus and orchestra, fragment only remains | — | —
| 1898 | "Love alone will stay" | song | voice and piano, published in "The Dome",
later adapted as In Haven, No. 2 of Sea Pictures, Op. 37 | — | C. Alice Elgar | Paternoster Press
| 1898 | "O Salutaris Hostia" | church | choir unacc., in Tozer’s Benediction Manual No. 47 | — | O Salutaris Hostia | Cary
| 1899 | "Dry those fair, those crystal eyes" | song | voice and piano | — | Henry King | Charing + Hospital Bazaar
| 1899 | "To her beneath whose stedfast star" | part-song | SATB unacc., orchestrated 1902 | H.M. Queen Victoria | Frederic W. H. Myers | Macmillan
12 | 1899 | "Woo thou, sweet Music" | song | voice and piano,
from Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, adapted by Max Laistner[96] | — | A. C. Bunten[97] | Schott
| 1899 | Sérénade Lyrique | orchestral | — | Ivan Caryll’s Orchestra | — | Chappell
| 1900 | "Pansies" | song | voice and piano,
from Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, adapted by Max Laistner[96] | — | Percy E. Pinkerton | Schott
| 1900 | "The Pipes of Pan" | song | voice and piano | — | Adrian Ross | Boosey
| 1901 | "Always and Everywhere" | song | voice and piano, from the Polish of Krasiński | — | F. H. Fortey[98] | Boosey
| 1901 | "Come, Gentle Night!" | song | voice and piano | — | Clifton Bingham[99] | Boosey
| 1901 | May-Song | keyboard | piano, for orchestra (Elkin, 1928) | — | Mrs. T. Garmston Hyde[100] | W. H. Broome
Morrice Music
Elkin
| 1901 | Emmaus
(Herbert Brewer) | arrangement | orchestration | — | —
| 1902 | "Land of Hope and Glory" | song | voice and piano or orchestra, from Coronation Ode, Op.44 | — | A. C. Benson | Boosey
| 1902 | "O Mightiest of the Mighty" | church | hymn for the Coronation of Edward VII | H.R.H. Prince of Wales
(later H.M. King Edward VII) | Rev. S. Childs Clarke[101] | Novello
| 1902 | "God Save the King" (or "My Country Tis of Thee") | arrangement | soloists, chorus and orchestra | — | — | Novello
| 1903 | "Speak, my Heart!" | song | voice and piano | — | A. C. Benson | Boosey
| 1903 | "Weary Wind of the West" | part-song | SATB unacc. | — | T. E. Brown | Novello
| 1903 | Offertoire (Andante Religioso) | chamber | violin and piano, "Offertoire pour le violon, Gustave Francke (op.11)"[102] | dédié à Serge Derval, Anvers[103] | — | Boosey
| 1903 | Skizze | keyboard | piano, repub. Novello | Prof. Julius Buths, Düsseldorf | — | Musik-Beilag zur Nuen Musik-Zeitung (Stuttgart),
Novello
50 | 1904 | Canto Popolare | chamber | viola and piano, arranged by the composer from his concert-overture In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 | — | — | Boosey
50 | 1904 | "In Moonlight" | song | voice and piano,
adapted to the viola serenade Canto Popolare from the concert-overture In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 | — | Shelley | Boosey
| 1905 | "Evening Scene" | part-song | SATB unacc. | In Memory of R. G. H. Howson[104] | Coventry Patmore | Novello
| 1905 | In Smyrna | keyboard | piano, pub. "Queen's Christmas Carol Book", repub. Novello | — | — | Daily Mail,
Novello
| 1906 | Piece for Organ | keyboard | organ, "For Dot's Nuns"[105] [remark by Elgar] | — | —
| 1907 | Berceuse – Petite reine |  | see Petite reine – Berceuse |  |  |
| 1907 | Andantino
(Victor Bérard) | arrangement | violin, mandolin and guitar "For the Barbers" [remark by Elgar],[106]
unfinished | — | —
| 1907 | Two single chants for Venite in D and G | church | choir, in "New Cathedral Psalter" | — | — | Novello
| 1907 | Two double chants in D for Psalms 68 and 75 | church | choir, in "New Cathedral Psalter" | — | — | Novello
| 1907 | String quartet | chamber | fragmentary | — | —
| 1907 | "How calmly the evening" | part-song | SATB unacc. | — | Thomas Toke Lynch[107] | Novello
| 1907 | Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar | song | voice and piano
1\. "Like to the Damask Rose"
2\. "Queen Mary's Song"
3\. "A Song of Autumn"
4\. "The Poet's Life"
5\. "Through the Long Days"
6\. "Rondel"
7\. "The Shepherd's Song"
all first pub. 1889–1894 | — | — | Boosey
| 1908 | "Follow the Colours" | song | Marching song for solo, piano/orchestra/military band, and optional male chorus
Republished 1914 | Worshipful Company of Musicians | Capt. W. de Courcy Stretton [108] | Novello
| 1908 | Marching Song | – | see "Follow the Colours" | — | — |
| 1908 | "Abide with me"
(Ivor Atkins) | arrangement | anthem, rev. 1928 | — | —
| 1909 | "Lo! Christ the Lord is Born" | church | Christmas carol SATB unacc.,
after Grete Malverne on a Rocke, 1897 | — | Shapcott Wensley | Novello
| 1910 | "A Child Asleep" | song | voice and piano | Anthony Goetz[109] | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Novello
| 1910 | "The King's Way" | song | voice and piano | — | C. Alice Elgar | Boosey
| 1910 | "They are at Rest" | church | anthem for choir and organ, perf. at the Royal Mausoleum for the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death | — | Cardinal Newman | Novello
| 1911 | St Matthew Passion
(J. S. Bach) | arrangement | performing edition, with Ivor Atkins | — | — | Novello
| 1911 | St Matthew Passion
(J. S. Bach) | arrangement | two chorales
"O Mensch bewein dein Sünde Gross" BWV 622,
"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" BWV 244,
for 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones and tuba | — | — | MS
| 1913 | "Callicles" | song | Scena, intended for Muriel Foster | — | Matthew Arnold | —
| 1913 | Carissima | orchestral | — | Winifred Stephens[110] | — | Elkin
| 1914 | "Fear not, O Land" | church | Harvest Anthem | — | Joel ii | Novello
| 1914 | "Arabian Serenade" | song | voice and piano | — | Margery Lawrence | Boosey
| 1914 | "The Chariots of the Lord" | song | voice and piano | — | Rev. John Brownlie[111] | Boosey
| 1914 | "The Birthright" | part-song | boys' voices unison acc. bugles and drums or SATB unacc. | — | George A. Stocks[112] | Novello
| 1914 | "The Merry-go-round" | song | unison song acc. piano,
pub. USA[113] | — | Florence C. Fox[114] | Silver Burdett
| 1915 | Rosemary | orchestral | orchestration of Douce Pensée (1882) for piano trio | — | — | Elkin
| 1915 | "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront" | song | see Une voix dans le désert, Op. 77 | — | — | —
| 1915 | "The Brook" | part-song | 2-part song acc. piano,
pub. USA[113] | — | Ellen Soule[115] | Silver Burdett
| 1915 | "The Windlass Song" | part-song | SATB unacc.,
pub. USA[113] | — | William Allingham | Silver Burdett
| 1916 | "Fight for Right" | song | voice and piano | Members of the Fight for Right Movement | William Morris | Elkin
| 1917 | "Ozymandias" | song | voice and piano | — | Shelley | —
| 1917 | The Fringes of the Fleet | song | songs for four baritones and orchestra,
1\. "The Lowestoft Boat (A Chanty)"
2\. "Fate's Discourtesy"
3\. "Submarines"
4\. "The Sweepers"
5\. "Inside the Bar (A Sailor's Song)" added later | 'To my friend Admiral Lord Beresford' | Rudyard Kipling | Enoch
| 1917 | "The Lowestoft Boat (A Chanty)" | song | four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet | — | Rudyard Kipling | Enoch
| 1917 | "Fate's Discourtesy" | song | four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet | — | Rudyard Kipling | Enoch
| 1917 | "Submarines" | song | four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet | — | Rudyard Kipling | Enoch
| 1917 | "The Sweepers" | song | four baritones and orchestra,
from The Fringes of the Fleet | — | Rudyard Kipling | Enoch
| 1917 | "Inside the Bar (A Sailor's Song)" | song | four baritones unaccompanied
added to The Fringes of the Fleet,
dedicated to the four singers | Charles Mott,
Harry Barratt,
Frederick Henry and
Frederick Stewart | Gilbert Parker | Enoch
| 1918 | "Big Steamers" | song | unison song for children, acc. piano | — | Rudyard Kipling | Teachers' World
| 1922 | "Ye Holy Angels bright" | arrangement | orchestral accompaniment | — | John Darwall
| 1922 | "Jerusalem"
(Parry) | arrangement | for chorus and orchestra | — | William Blake
| 1923 | Arthur | incidental | to a play by Laurence Binyon | — | —
| 1923 | "The Wanderer" | part-song | TTBB unacc. | — | Anon., adapted from Wit and Drollery, 1661 | Novello
| 1923 | "Zut, zut, zut!" | part-song | TTBB unacc. | — | Richard Marden[116] | Novello
| 1923 | Memorial Chimes | keyboard | for the opening of the Loughborough War Memorial Carillon[117] | — | William Wooding Starmer[118] | MS
| 1923 | Overture in D minor
(Handel) | arrangement | transcription for orchestra of the Overture in D minor (Chandos Anthem "In the Lord put I my Trust", HWV247) | — | — | Novello
| 1923 | "O Lord,look down from Heaven"
(Battishill) | arrangement | orchestral accompaniment | — | — | MS
| 1923 | "Let us Lift up our Hearts"
(S. S. Wesley) | arrangement | orchestral accompaniment | — | — | MS
| 1924 | Empire March | orchestral | — | — | — | Enoch
| 1924 | Arthur: Suite | orchestral | for chamber orchestra (from the incidental music to Binyon's Arthur | — | — | MS
| 1924 | Pageant of Empire | incidental | solo songs, except No. 8 "A Song of Union" for SATB
Nos. 5 and 7 were also later arranged for chorus SATB; some also with orchestral accompaniment
1\. "Shakespeare's Kingdom"
2\. "The Islands (A Song of New Zealand)"
3\. "The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia)"
4\. "The Heart of Canada"
5\. "Sailing Westward"
6\. "Merchant Adventurers"
7\. "The Immortal Legions"
8\. "A Song of Union" (part-song SATB) | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "Shakespeare's Kingdom" | song | solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "The Islands (A Song of New Zealand)" | song | solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia)" | song | solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "The Heart of Canada" | song | solo voice, SATB chorus and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "Sailing Westward" | song | solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire,
later arranged for chorus SATB | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "Merchant Adventurers" | song | solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "The Immortal Legions" | song | solo voice and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire,
later arranged for chorus SATB | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | "A Song of Union" | part-song | SATB chorus and orchestra
from Pageant of Empire, trio of Empire March | — | Alfred Noyes | Enoch
| 1924 | March | chamber | violin, cello and piano,
intended also for orchestra[119] | The Grafton family[35] | —
| 1924 | "The Song of the Bull" | part-song | male voices and piano, for Cambridge University May Week | — | F. Hamilton | —
| 1925 | "The Herald" | part-song | SATB unacc. | — | Alexander Smith | Novello
| 1925 | "The Prince of Sleep" | part-song | SATB unacc. | — | Walter de la Mare | Elkin
| 1927 | Civic Fanfare | orchestral | orchestra without violins[120] | Dr. Percy C. Hull | — | MS
| 1928 | May-Song | orchestral | from the original for piano | — | —
| 1928 | Beau Brummel | incidental | dramatic music to a play by Bertram Matthews. MS full score mostly missing, except for the Minuet, found in c2006.[121] | — | Bertram P. Matthews | MS
| 1928 | Minuet from Beau Brummel | orchestral | arr. for full orch. by Elgar: arr. for piano solo by Ernest Austin[121] | — | —  | Elkin
| 1928 | "I sing the Birth" | church | Christmas carol SATB unacc. | Rev. Harcourt B. S. Fowler[122] | Ben Jonson | Novello
| 1929 | "Good Morrow" | church | 'A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery', SATB unacc. or acc. piano | H.M. King George V | George Gascoigne | Novello
| 1929 | "Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei"
(Purcell) | arrangement | orchestral accompaniment | — | — | MS
| 1930 | "It isnae me" | song | voice and piano | Joan Elwes | Sally Holmes | Keith Prowse
| 1930 | "XTC" | song | voice and piano | — | Edward Elgar
| 1930 | Soliloquy | chamber | oboe and piano | — | —
| 1931 | Nursery Suite | orchestral | 1\. Aubade (Awake)
2\. The Serious Doll
3\. Busy-ness
4\. The Sad Doll
5\. The Wagon (Passes)
6\. The Merry Doll
7\. Dreaming – Envoy (coda) | Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of York and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose | — | Keith Prowse
| 1932 | Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode | choral | "So many true Princesses who have gone",
SATB and orchestra or military band[123] | In Memory H.M. Queen Alexandra | John Masefield | MS
| 1932 | "The Woodland Stream" | song | unison song | Stephen S. Moore[124] | Charles Mackay | Keith Prowse
| 1932 | "The Rapid Stream" | song | unison song | Stephen S. Moore, Worcester[124] | Charles Mackay | Keith Prowse
| 1932 | "When Swallows Fly" | song | unison song | Stephen S. Moore[124] | Charles Mackay | Keith Prowse
| 1932 | Sonatina | keyboard | piano, certainly written many years earlier | May Grafton[35] | — | Keith Prowse
| 1932 | Adieu | keyboard | piano, certainly written many years earlier, transcribed for violin by Szigeti | — | — | Keith Prowse
| 1932 | Serenade | keyboard | piano, certainly written many years earlier | John Austin[125] | — | Keith Prowse
| 1933 | Mina[126] | orchestral | small orchestra | — | — | Keith Prowse
| 1933 | "Tarantella" | song | baritone and orchestra, incomplete | — | Hilaire Belloc | —
| 1933 | Funeral March
(Chopin) | arrangement | transcription for orchestra of the Funeral March from the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 35 | — | — | Keith Prowse
| 1879 | Adagio Solenne | — | see Five Intermezzos of Wind Quintets, Op 6.1, also used in Cantique, Op. 3 | — | — | —
| 1879 | Evesham Andante | — | see Andante con Variazioni of Wind Quintets, Op. 6.5 | — | — | —
| 1879 | Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup | — | see Adagio Cantabile of Wind Quintets, Op. 6.6 | — | — | —
| 1892 | "Stars of the Summer Night" | — | see "Spanish Serenade", Op. 23 | — | — | —
| 1884 | Une Idylle | — | see Idylle, Op. 4.1 | — | — | —
| 1894 | King Olaf | — | see Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf, Op. 30 | — | — | —
| 1896 | Lux Christi | — | see The Light of Life, Op. 29 | — | — | —
34.1 | 1897 | Te Deum Laudamus | — | seeTe Deum and Benedictus, Op.34 | — | Hymn | —
34.2 | 1897 | Benedictus | — | seeTe Deum and Benedictus, Op.34 | — | Benedictus (Song of Zechariah) | —
| 1899 | Enigma Variations | — | see Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36 | — | — | —
| 1902 | Enfants d'un Rêve | — | see Dream Children, Op. 43 | — | — | —
| 1911 | Coronation Offertorium | — | see "O Hearken Thou", Op. 64 | — | — | —
| 1911 | "Intende voci orationis meæ" | — | see "O Hearken Thou", Op. 64 | — | — | —
| 1915 | "When the spring comes round" | — | see "Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront" | — | — | —
| 1915 | "A voice in the desert" | — | see "Une voix dans le désert", Op. 77 | — | — | —
| 1916 | The Belgian Flag | — | see Le drapeau belge, Op. 79 | — | — | —
| 1932 | "So many true Princesses who have gone" | — | see Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode, 1932 | — | — | —

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1. ^ Oswin Grainger was an older musical friend, reluctantly a grocer by trade
2. ^ Dr. Charles Lee Williams was former organist of Gloucester Cathedral
3. ^ a b c Hubert Leicester was a lifelong friend of Elgar's, played flute in the early wind quintets (his brother William played clarinet), and was always a keen musician; the Leicester family lived at No. 6 Worcester High Street, a few doors away from the Elgar music shop. Hubert Leicester wrote a book Forgotten Worcester with a preface by Elgar, and became Mayor of Worcester (Kennedy 1987, p. 263).
4. ^ Elgar's boyhood employer, the solicitor William Allen (Moore 1984, p. 118)
5. ^ Agnes Leicester was the wife of Elgar's lifelong friend Hubert Leicester – they were married three years before Edward Elgar and Alice
6. ^ A friend of Elgar's, the Very Rev. Canon Charles Vincent Dolman, O.S.B. was the priest of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Broad Street, Hereford
7. ^ a b Op. 3 was first assigned to Allegretto on G.E.D.G.E., then finally to Cantique
8. ^ Elgar met 'Miss E. E.' before he was married, whilst on holiday in Scotland
9. ^ Hilda Fitton was sister of Isabel Fitton – 'Ysobel' (Variation VI) of the Enigma Variations
10. ^ Frank Webb was a Worcester furniture dealer, and he and his sisters were some of Elgar's earliest violin pupils in Worcester, and a member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society. His son Alan Webb was curator of the Elgar Birthplace in the 1960s (Kennedy 1987, p. 19).
11. ^ J. F. Porte, in his critical book Sir Edward Elgar (Porte 1921), asserts that Elgar wrote two songs in his Op. 5, but does not name either: "The two numbers comprising Opus 5 are to be commended to those who would see how a great composer commenced his contributions to the world of song."
12. ^ a b Frederick G. Pedley was (according to the 1881 census) a warehouseman from Worcester, two years older than Elgar. He was an amateur singer, and gave the first performance of "A Soldier's Song" at a Worcester Glee Club meeting on 18 March 1884
13. ^ Charles Flavell Hayward (1863–1906) was born in Wolverhampton, England into a show-business family. He was an actor, poet, violinist, conductor, composer and arranger of music. He was a friend of Elgar's and played at the same desk in the violins. His father Henry Hayward was a violinist known as the "English Paganini". The family emigrated to New Zealand where he, his brothers, their wives and other family (known as "The Brescian Family") made their living in the theatre, which included the novelty of a moving picture show or bioscope as it was called. He died in Adelaide, Australia. His most well-known song (he wrote the lyrics and the music) is called "Come back to me" which was sung by his sister Florence Hayward.
14. ^ The wind quintet was: Hubert Leicester and Frank Exton (1st and 2nd flutes), Edward's brother Frank Elgar (oboe), Hubert's brother William Leicester (clarinet), and Edward Elgar (bassoon or cello)
15. ^ Young has "Op. 6, Wind Quintets: any of the above, but not specified by E.", referring to the works in the sets here numbered only for convenience "Op. 6.1" to "Op. 6.6" to keep them together (Young 1973, p. 408).
16. ^ Elgar's spelling. More correctly "Madame Tussaud's"
17. ^ The violinist who joined the wind quintet was Karl Bammert, a young lodger at the Elgar Music Shop
18. ^ Andante arioso, the second movement of Harmony Music No.6, was re-scored for organ by the composer in 1912, as Cantique, Op.3
19. ^ Frank Exton was the second flautist in the quintet
20. ^ William Leicester, Hubert's brother, was the clarinettist in the quintet
21. ^ Frank Elgar, Edward's brother, was the oboist in the quintet
22. ^ The Gavotte named after Alphonsa Leicester, who was the sister of Elgar's friends William and Hubert Leicester
23. ^ Re-copied for The Spanish Lady
24. ^ Percy Fletcher identifies this as possibly that of 1888
25. ^ a b c d Lady Mary Lygon (pronounced "Liggon"), commemorated in the Romanza "***" of the Enigma Variations, was sister of Earl Beauchamp. She promoted, among others similar, the Madresfield Musical Competition in 1903. She became Lady Mary Trefusis on marrying Lt.-Col. Henry Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis in 1905
26. ^ Dyke Acland was a bank manager and amateur cellist
27. ^ Fred Ward was one of Elgar's pupils, and Bizarrerie was written for him, but (unlike La Capricieuse) not dedicated to him
28. ^ Julia Raikes, wife of William Raikes, cousin of his wife Alice. The Raikes were the only members of her family to attend Elgar's wedding, and lent the Elgars their house in Upper Norwood for a few weeks in 1889
29. ^ Dr. Frank Ehrke of the Manor House, Kempsey was 1st violin in the Worcestershire Philharmonic Society Orchestra
30. ^ Fred Ward was one of Elgar's pupils
31. ^ McVeagh 2007 gives this as Op. 18, No. 3
32. ^ Rev. J. Hampton, M.A., Warden of St. Michael's College, Tenbury (Kennedy 1987, p. 280)
33. ^ The Rev. Walter H. Whinfield was the youngest son of Edward Whinfield, head of an organ-building firm and vice-president of the Worcester Musical Society, who gave musical evenings at his large house 'Severn Grange' near Claines, where the young Edward Elgar began to meet a wide range of musicians, some of whom were to become lifelong friends (Moore 1984, p. 89).
34. ^ Paul Kilburn was the son of Elgar's friend, the organist and conductor Nicholas Kilburn
35. ^ a b c May Grafton was Elgar's niece, daughter of William Grafton and Elgar's sister Pollie
36. ^ a b c Mrs E. B. Fitton was a Malvern pianist and mother of Hilda and Isabel Fitton ('Ysobel' of the Enigma Variations)
37. ^ In August 1893 the Elgars spent two weeks in Garmisch at the guest-house of an English family, the Bethells, who they had met the year before (Moore 1984, p. 175).
38. ^ Acworth, H. A.; Elgar, E. (1898). Caractacus: A Cantata. London: Novello.
39. ^ Sketches "elaborated" by Anthony Payne
40. ^ Mrs. Edward Speyer was Antonia Kufferath, the Belgian-born soprano, daughter of Alice Elgar's old piano teacher Ferdinand Kufferath and wife of Elgar's friend the wealthy banker Edward Speyer. 'Ridgehurst' was their home at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Not to be confused with Sir Edgar Speyer and Lady Speyer (the latter a professional violinist Leonora von Stosch)
41. ^ Concert Allegro sometimes still shown in references as "Op. 41"
42. ^ Lady Maud Warrender (1870–1945) was the youngest daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbury and married Sir George Warrender. She was a singer and patron of music – she organised the first performance of the Coronation Ode in 1903 – and a personal friend of Elgar and his wife
43. ^ Arthur Leslie Salmon (born 1865), lover of literature, poet, music critic and author of British travel guides
44. ^ Canon Charles Vincent Gorton was chairman of the Morecambe Festival, and assisted Elgar with the words of The Apostles
45. ^ Julia Worthington was an American, a friend of Prof. Sanford, whom he met in the U. S. A., and who later saw him in England. The enigmatic dots in the Spanish quotation inscribed on Elgar's Violin Concerto are said to refer to her.
46. ^ Dr. William McNaught, musical editor and choral conductor, worked for the publishers Novello
47. ^ a b c d "Pietro d'Alba" (alias "Peter Rabbit") was Elgar's pseudonym for himself
48. ^ Henry Embleton was the wealthy and enthusiastic president of the Leeds Choral Union who encouraged Elgar in his choral music (Moore 1984, p. 215).
49. ^ Elgar's friend and 'muse', known to him as Alice and 'Windflower', Alice Sophia Caroline Millais was daughter of the artist John Everett Millais and wife of Lord Stuart of Wortley. She and her husband shared an interest in music.
50. ^ Alfred Henry Littleton was chairman of publishers Novello. At the time he wrote the song, Elgar and his wife were staying at the villa of his friend Julia Worthington at Careggi near Florence when they were visited by Littleton, whose wife had just died
51. ^ Of the songs in the planned Op. 59, nos. 1, 2 and 4 were never published, and not even their titles are known
52. ^ Percy M. Young (in his Elgar O. M.) says this is "probably fictitious" (Young 1973).
53. ^ Edwin James was principal bassoonist and chairman of the London Symphony Orchestra (Moore 1984, p. 563).
54. ^ Nicholas Kilburn (1843–1923) was an amateur musician, principally an organist and conductor, from Bishop Auckland in Co. Durham who was a close friend of Elgar's for many years.
55. ^ Frances Smart was a neighbour of the Elgars at 'Forli' before the turn of the century (Moore 1984, p. 659).
56. ^ William Mann Dyson was a singing teacher who sang in the Worcester Glee Club (Moore 1984, p. 695 and 1901 England Census, Worcester).
57. ^ a b c Vasily Ivanovich Maikov (1728—1778), Russian poet and dramatist. See ru: Майков, Василий Иванович
58. ^ Frances Colvin, wife of Sir Sidney Colvin
59. ^ Inscription on the vocal score: 'This adaptation has been made by Sir Edward Elgar, O.M. at the request of the LEAGUE OF ARTS, to whom it is dedicated. It is specially intended for the performance at the Dedication of the Cenotaph and similar ceremonies throughout the country.'
60. ^ Ballet based on a fan designed by Charles Conder
61. ^ The violinist Maria Joshua said she was 'overwhelmed' by Elgar's offer of dedication, but was ill and would write later to explain. She never wrote, and died a week later. The dedication was accepted later by her daughter (Moore 1984, p. 725).
62. ^ The leader was Adolph Brodsky (nearly 70 at the time and principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music) and the others Hugo Becker, Hans Sitt, and Julius Klengel
63. ^ Young 1973.
64. ^ The Smoking Cantata was probably never intended to be performed and was given the jocular opus number of 1001. Its duration is less than a minute
65. ^ Ward, David (11 December 2003). "Unknown Elgar is just a puff of smoke". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 September 2006.
66. ^ On her birthday
67. ^ McVeagh 2007, p. 3.
68. ^ Elgar himself
69. ^ Probably Oswin Grainger, an older musical friend, reluctantly a grocer by trade
70. ^ Elgar wrote on the manuscript: "Exercise for the 3rd finger – (The chords not to be played, the 1st, 2nd & 4th fingers remain fixed in the positions ...)." Finally: "Written for my own use in 1877. Copied for Mr. Jascha Heifetz at his request, November 1920. Edward Elgar"
71. ^ The composer's brother Frank Elgar, who played the oboe
72. ^ The England 1881 census shows that Karl Bammert was a German watchmaker aged 21, a boarder at the Elgar family house No. 10 High Street Worcester – he was probably the violinist. Frank Elgar and two sisters Lucy and 'Dot' were there, with their parents
73. ^ Leicester private collection
74. ^ a b c d Frank and Helen Weaver were among the children of William Weaver, a shoe merchant whose shop was opposite the Elgar's at No. 84 Worcester High Street. Frank Weaver also became a shoemaker, and he played the double bass; Elgar wrote the Duett for trombone and double bass as a wedding present to him on 1 August 1887, when he married Fannie Jones. Helen Weaver was 'Nelly' of the Harmony Music; in 1883 Helen and Elgar were engaged to be married, but the engagement was broken off the next year (Moore 1984, p. 67, and England censuses 1871, 1881).
75. ^ George Jenkins lived in Powick and was recorded as Clerk at the Asylum in the national censuses of 1871, 1881 and 1891
76. ^ a b c Miss J. Holloway was the pianist at the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum (Moore 1984, p. 87).
77. ^ Elgar's brother Frank
78. ^ Fr. Thomas Knight, of St. Georges' Church, Worcester
79. ^ The same tune as "Richard of Taunton Dene", a traditional Somersetshire song
80. ^ a b Dr. Charles William Buck was a lifelong cellist friend of Elgar's who lived in Settle, North Yorkshire. On occasional visits Elgar played his violin in trios with Charles and his wife Emma who played piano. He also composed short compositions while he was there. Buck kept most of Elgar's letters to him.
81. ^ Photograph of the manuscript in Young 1973, p. 128
82. ^ G. Frank Blackbourne (1840–c.1911), an actor, director of musical comedies and song composer, used the pseudonym Victor Béraud for his compositions. He was a neighbour of Elgar in Worcester. Elgar gave the arrangement to Blackbourne, who then sold it to Willcocks & Co. in 1907
83. ^ From Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection,
84. ^ Percy Fletcher identifies this as possibly the trio mentioned in a letter to Dr. Buck, 1887
85. ^ Ludwig Wüllner (1858–1938) was the German tenor (and actor) who deeply impressed Elgar with his performance as Gerontius at Düsseldorf in 1901
86. ^ Elgar used to go to the Malvern Wells house of The Rev. William Wilberforce Gedge, Headmaster of Wells House School, every week to give violin lessons to his daughters (Moore 1984, p. 72).
87. ^ According to Young 1973, Elgar pencilled in a note on the manuscript that J. H. Meredith was an honorary member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society
88. ^ According to Young 1973, Mrs. Marshall and her daughter were friends of Lady Elgar.
89. ^ Simon Wastell (1560–1635), headmaster of the Free School at Northampton
90. ^ Ellen Burroughs was the pseudonym of the American poet Sophie Jewett (1861–1909)
91. ^ Kennedy 1987, p. 281.
92. ^ Moore 1984, p. 168.
93. ^ a b Young 1973, footnote p. 70
94. ^ Moore 1984, p. 177 notes (from the Chappell archives) that permission to use the poem by 'Barry Pain' was obtained on 3 March
95. ^ from 'Historic Worcestershire' by W. Scott Brassington
96. ^ a b Max Laistner (1853–1917) was a German musician, a concert pianist and director of the Max Laistner Choir. He made piano transcriptions of the classics, including an "Etude de Concert" after Chopin's Valse in D-flat "Minute Waltz"
97. ^ Alice Chambers Bunten, scholar, author and lyricist for many songs, well known for her Life of Alice Barnham, Wife of Sir Francis Bacon, London: Oliphants Ltd. 1928
98. ^ Frank H. Fortey (born in India 1876) was a translator of Polish literature. His main work was the poems of Mickiewicz. He lived in King's Norton near Worcester, and died in 1940.
99. ^ Clifton Bingham (1859–1913) was an English author of poems and children's books, many of them illustrated by Louis Wain.
100. ^ Dedicated to Martina Hyde, wife of wealthy Worcester solicitor Thomas Garmston Hyde. Their daughter Martina, one of six children, was a pupil of Elgar's, and the family encouraged him in the formation of a new Worcester Philharmonic Society, with Elgar as conductor. The Hyde family were also amusing friends of the Elgars and lived in a large house in Foregate Street near the station.
101. ^ Samuel Childs Clarke (1821–1903) was born at Stoke Damerell, his father an army Major-General. He was educated at Oxford – Queens College and St. Mary Hall – before taking Holy Orders and becoming Curate of Thorverton in Devon then later Vicar of St. Thomas, Launceston and Headmaster of Launceston Grammar School. He was the author of a large number of poems and hymns, some set to music by his friend Sir John Stainer.
102. ^ The composer name on the score Gustave Francke is a pseudonym. The false opus number 11 was in fact allocated to the Sursum Corda of 1894. The work may have been composed as early as 1893 as a movement of a Violin Sonata.
103. ^ The dedication, like the name of the composer, is probably fictional. Serge Derval, Anvers may form various anagrams which include the name Elgar
104. ^ R. G. H. Howson was a bank manager who conducted choirs at the Morecambe festivals (Kennedy 1987, p. 166).
105. ^ Elgar's sister Helen Agnes Elgar, known as 'Dot', was in a convent)
106. ^ Discovering that Italian clients of a hairdresser at Capri diverted themselves with music while waiting for their turn, Elgar composed this piece for their general benefit
107. ^ Biography and hymns of Thomas Toke Lynch (1818–1871)
108. ^ At the time he wrote the lyrics, William de Courcy Stretton was a 46-year old wealthy retired Captain of the Royal Artillery, living in Salcombe, Devon. He was the son of Col. Severus William Lynam Stretton (1793–1884) of Nottingham who had served in both Peninsular Wars, and the Hon. Catherine Adela de Courcy, youngest daughter of the 28th Lord Kinsale, premier baron of Ireland
109. ^ Anthony Goetz was the son of Ludovic Goetz and Muriel Foster, a favourite singer and personal friend of Elgar’s
110. ^ Winifred Stephens was sister of the singer Muriel Foster, and her husband Jeffrey Stephens worked for the Gramophone Company which made the first recording of Elgar's music, including Carissima
111. ^ John Brownlie, D.D. (1857–1925) Scottish hymnologist – photo and biography
112. ^ George Alfred Stocks (1858–1934) had in 1909 written and published The Records of Blackburn Grammar School in two volumes
113. ^ a b c Elgar made four visits to the USA: the last in 1911. He wrote three songs: "The Merry-go-round" for (children's) voices in unison with piano accompaniment; "The Brook" a simple two-part song with piano accompaniment; and "Windlass Song" for four-part voices (SATB) unaccompanied. The songs were published by Silver, Burdett & Co. of New York City in "The Progressive Music Series", books Two (1914), Three (1915) and Four (1915) respectively. All three songs are short: "The Merry-go-round" 13 bars with two verses – the tune of this is simple and the notation unusually large, indicating that this was written for young children; "The Brook" 13 bars with three verses; and "Windlass Song" 14 bars with four verses. Elgar signed a schedule excluding their publication in any form apart from that series, and specifically not to be published outside the USA, though in 1921 Elgar gave permission for them to be published in the Canadian edition of that series. (Information provided on 1 April 1980 by Elsie Plant, Senior Editor Music Publications, Silver Burdett Company, 250 James Street, Morristown, NJ)
114. ^ Florence C. Fox (1861–1933) was an American writer of books and poems, and lyricist of songs for children. Her children's books include "Fox's Indian Primer" about American Indians and how they lived.
115. ^ Ellen Soule (1847–1928) lived in Pasadena, LA. She was dean of women at Northwestern University, and writer of short stories and volumes of poetry, the best-known called "Overflow". Between 1916 and 1917 she was president of the Pasadena Browning Society. She married professor of physics Henry Smith Carhart and they had three children.
116. ^ Richard Marden was a pseudonym of the composer
117. ^ Orr, Scott Allan (2022). "The Origins, Development, and Legacy of Elgar's Memorial Chimes (1923)" (PDF). Beiaard- en klokkencultuur in de Lage Landen [Carillon and Bell Culture in the Low Countries]. 1 (1 ed.). Amsterdam University Press: 81–101\. doi:10.5117/BKL2022.1.004.ORR. S2CID 249082470.
118. ^ William Wooding Starmer (1866–1927) was Professor of Campanology in the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music, London. He was an organist and musicologist, and a keen proponent of carillon music in the early 20th century
119. ^ According to the composer's markings in the manuscript (Young 1973, p. 407)
120. ^ The Civic Fanfare was written for the mayoral procession at the opening of the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford on 4 September 1927. The orchestration includes fanfares for the orchestral brass accompanied by wind and percussion; but the only strings which take part are violas, celli and double basses. The work was intended to precede a performance of Elgar's transcription of 'God Save the King' and ends with a side-drum roll which leads directly into the National Anthem, when the violins join in at the same time as the choir.
121. ^ a b Kay, Robert (December 2011). "Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music" (PDF). The Elgar Society Journal. 17 (3): 13–14. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
122. ^ Rev. Harcourt B. S. Fowler of Elmley Castle
123. ^ Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode was written with accompaniment for orchestra, but was performed by a military band, and all parts have been lost
124. ^ a b c Stephen Moore was a young Worcester schoolmaster, and the three songs were written for him to complete a contract with publishers Keith Prowse
125. ^ John Austin was a local violinist, leader of the Worcester Philharmonic, who assisted Elgar in the copying out, checking and playing through of parts, for example Gerontius and the Violin Concerto (Moore 1984, pp. 243, 348).
126. ^ Mina was Elgar's Cairn terrier

### References

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* Kennedy, Michael (1987). Portrait of Elgar (3rd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-284017-7.
* McVeagh, Diana M. (2007). Elgar the Music Maker. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-295-9.
* Moore, Jerrold N. (1984). Edward Elgar: A Creative Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315447-1.
* Porte, J. F. (1921). Sir Edward Elgar. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. Ltd.
* Young, Percy M. (1973). Elgar O. M.: A Study of a Musician. London: Collins. OCLC 869820.

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* Free scores by Edward Elgar at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
* List of compositions by Edward Elgar discography at Discogs

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List of compositions

Incidental|

* Diarmuid and Grania (1901)
* The Crown of India (1911–12)
* The Starlight Express (1915–16)
* The Sanguine Fan (1917)

Symphonies|

* Symphony No. 1 (1907–08)
* Symphony No. 2 (1909–11)
* Symphony No. 3 (1932–34; completed by Payne in 1997)

Orchestral|

* The Wand of Youth (1869–1907)
* Powick Asylum Music (1879–1884)
* Sevillana (1884)
* Froissart (1890)
* Sursum corda (1894)
* Serenade for Strings (1894)
* Three Bavarian Dances (1898)
* Enigma Variations (1899)
* Cockaigne Overture (1900–01)
* Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901–30)
* Dream Children (1902)
* Introduction and Allegro (1904–05)
* In the South (Alassio) (1904–05)
* Elegy (1909)
* Falstaff (1913)
* Sospiri (1914)
* Carillon (1914)
* Polonia (1915)
* Une voix dans le désert (1915)
* Le drapeau belge (1917)
* Nursery Suite (1930)
* The Severn Suite (1930)

Concertante|

* Violin Concerto (1901–10)
* Romance (1910)
* Cello Concerto (1918–19)

Chamber|

* Duett for trombone and double bass (1887)
* Idylle (1883)
* Salut d'Amour (1888)
* Chanson de Nuit (1897)
* Chanson de Matin (1899)
* Violin Sonata (1918)
* String Quartet (1918)
* Piano Quintet (1918–19)

Keyboard|

* Organ Sonata (1898)
* Concert Allegro (1901)

Choral|

* The Black Knight (1889–93)
* From the Bavarian Highlands (1895–96)
* The Dream of Gerontius (1899–1900)
* The Kingdom (1901–06)
* Coronation Ode (1902)
* The Apostles (1902–03)
* The Music Makers (1912)
* The Spirit of England (1915–17)

Vocal|

* "The Language of Flowers" (1872)
* "The Self Banished" (1875)
* "A War Song" (1884)
* Seven Lieder
* "Like to the Damask Rose" (1892)
* "Queen Mary's Song" (1889)
* "A Song of Autumn" (1892)
* "The Poet's Life" (1892)
* "Through the Long Days" (1885)
* "Rondel" (1894)
* "The Shepherd's Song" (1892)
* "Is she not passing fair?" (1886)
* "As I laye a-thynkynge" (1888)
* "The Wind at Dawn" (1888)
* "After" (1900)
* "A Song of Flight" (1900)
* Sea Pictures
* "Sea Slumber Song"
* "In Haven"
* "Sabbath Morning at Sea"
* "Where Corals Lie"
* "The Swimmer" (1897–99)
* "Dry those fair, those crystal eyes" (1899)
* "Always and Everywhere" (1901)
* "Come, Gentle Night!" (1901)
* "In the Dawn" (1901)
* "Speak, Music!" (1901)
* "There are seven that pull the thread" (1901)
* "In Moonlight" ((1904)
* "Follow the Colours" (1907)
* "Pleading" (1908)
* "A Child Asleep" (1909)
* "Oh, soft was the song" (1910)
* "Was it some Golden Star?" (1910)
* "Twilight" (1910)
* "The Chariots of the Lord" (1914)
* "Fight for Right" (1916)
* "Inside the Bar" (1917)
* "The Blue Mountains" (1924)
* "The Immortal Legions" (1924)
* Pageant of Empire (1924)
* "XTC" (1930)

Other topics|

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* Elgar (film)

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