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Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. The first of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901) is well known in the English-speaking world.
Actors: Jason Young (producer), Jason Young (writer), Jason Young (writer), Jason Young (writer), Jason Young (director), Claudette Young (producer), Mari Ellingson (producer), Lionel Young (producer), Grahame Edwards (actor), Richard Ward (actor), David Redinha (composer), Libby Wattis (actress), David France (actor), Rachel Summers (actress), Zed Rodgers (actor),
Genres: Animation, Music, Romance,Actors: Tim Woodhouse (editor), Jennifer Ward-Lealand (actress), Annie Goldson (writer), Annie Goldson (producer), Annie Goldson (director), Edward Elgar (composer), Peter Wells (producer), John Seymour (actor), Annie Goldson (writer), Annie Goldson (producer),
Plot: This film shows how the English composer Edward Elgar was moved to write his Cello Concerto in Em after his first great love, Helen Weaver, moved to New Zealand after their relationship ended. When Weaver's son was killed in France during WWII, he was moved to create this war requiem.
Keywords: edward-elgar, symphony, world-war-two