Edward Elgar quotes
Edward Elgar was an English composer renowned for his orchestral works, especially the "Enigma Variations" and "Pomp and Circumstance Marches." His music became widely associated with English national identity and celebratory occasions. He is regarded as one of Britain’s greatest composers of the late Romantic period. Here are 11 of his quotes:
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.
Edward Elgar
The aggressive Edwardian prosperity that lends so comfortable a background to Elgar's finales is now as strange to us as the England that produced Greensleeves and The Woodes so wilde. Stranger, in fact, and less sympathetic. In consequence much of Elgar's music, through no fault of its own, has for the present generation an almost intolerable air of smugness, self-assurance and autocratic benevolence.
Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
Occupation: British Composer
Born: June 2, 1857
Died: February 23, 1934
Quotes count: 11
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