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"Proserpine" (1877), oil on canvas, 119,5 x 57,8 cm, of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, contemporary of Elgar (Private collection, London) Sir Edward Elgar |
Sir Edward Elgar(1857-1934)
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project Elgar (Deeper articles)Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism Sir Edward Elgar, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Broadheath on the second June 1857, the same year of the composers Berté, Bruneau, Chaminade, Dellinger, Dluski, Doppler, Kelley, Kerker, Kienzl, Lazzari, Leoncavallo, Muresianu, Pasmore, Planchet, Schoenefeld, Spetrino, Tarditi. He died in Worcester on the 23th February 1934
OPERE"The Spanish Lady" was performed on the 4th of December 1969LIEDER"Whether I find thee bright with fair", op. 45 n. 2, text of Andrew Lang (1844-1912)"Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye", op. 45 n. 5, text of Richard Garnett (1835-1906) "After many a dusty mile", op. 45 n. 3, text of Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) "It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun", op. 45 n. 4, text of William Money Hardinge (1855-?) "Arabian Serenade", text of Margery Lawrence "My love dwelt in a Northern land" (My love dwelt in a northern land), published in 1890, text of Andrew Lang (1844-1912) "O happy eyes", op. 18 n. 1, published in 1890, text of Caroline Alice Elgar (1848-1920) "As torrents in summer", text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) "Spanish serenade" (Stars of the summer night), published in 1892, text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) "The woodland stream", text of Charles Mackay (1814-1889) "The rapid stream", text of Charles Mackay (1814-1889) "The River", op. 60 n. 2, text of Pietro d'Alba "When swallows fly", text of Charles Mackay (1814-1889) "How calmly the evening", text of Thomas Toke Lynch (1818-1871) "Queen Mary's Song" (Hapless doom of woman happy in betrothing), text of Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) "Death on the hills", text of Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1857-1940) "There are seven that pull the thread", op. 42 n. 3, text of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Fly, singing bird, fly", op. 26 n. 2, published in 1895, text of Caroline Alice Elgar (1848-1920) "The snow", op. 26 n. 1, published in 1895, text of Caroline Alice Elgar (1848-1920) "The Music Makers", published in 1912, text of Arthur William Edgar OShaughnessy (1844-1881) "They are at rest", text of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) "Pleading", op. 48 n. 1, text of Arthur Leslie Salmon (1865-?) "Evening scene", text of Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-1896) "Love", op. 18 n. 2, published in 1907, text of Arthur Maquarie (1874-?) "To the Children", published in 1915, text of Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) "The Blue-Eyes Fairy", published in 1915, text of Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) "In Moonlight" (As the moon's soft splendor), text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) "The Reveille", text of Bret Harte (1839-1902) "My Old Tunes", published in 1915, text of Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) "Owls", op. 53 n. 4, published in 1908, text of Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) "There is sweet music", op. 53 n. 1, published in 1908, text of Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) "A Song of Autumn", text of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) "The wanderer", Anonymous "The herald", text of Alexander Smith (1830-1867) "Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean", op. 45 n. 1, text of Alma Strettell "O wild West Wind" (O wild West Wind, make me thy lyre, even as the forest is), op. 53 n. 3, published in 1908, text of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) "Deep in my soul", op. 53 n. 2, published in 1908, text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) "The shower", op. 71 n. 1, published in 1914, text of Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) "The fountain", op. 71 n. 2, published in 1914, text of Henry Vaughan (1622-1695) "Love's tempest", op. 73 n. 1, published in 1914, text of Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1857-1940) "Modest and Fair", text of Ben Jonson (1572-1637) "Serenade", op. 73 n. 2, published in 1914, text of Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1857-1940) "Still to be neat", text of Ben Jonson (1572-1637) "Goodmorrow", text of George Gascoigne (1525?-1577) "A Song of Flight", op. 31 n. 2, text of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) "After", op. 31 n. 1, text of Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887) "Sea Slumber Song", op. 37 n. 1, text of Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) "Sabbath Morning at Sea", op. 37 n. 3, text of Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861) "The Swimmer", op. 37 n. 5, text of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) "Through the Long Days", op. 16 n. 2, text of Col. John Hay (1838-1905) "Rondel" (Love, love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine), op. 16 n. 3, text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) "A Christmas greeting", text of Caroline Alice Elgar (1848-1920) "Weary wind of the west", text of T. E. (Thomas Edward) Brown (1830-1897) "A child asleep", published in 1910, text of Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861) "In Heaven (Capri)", op. 37 n. 2, text of Caroline Alice Elgar (1848-1920) "Where Corals Lie", op. 37 n. 4, text of Richard Garnett (1835-1906) "Is she not Passing Fair?", text of Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) "Fear not, o land", Bible "Twilight", op. 59 n. 6, text of Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) "Oh, Soft was the Song", op. 59 n. 3, text of Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) "Was it some Golden Star?", op. 59 n. 5, text of Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) "The Torch", op. 60 n. 1, text of Pietro d'Alba "Go, song of mine", text of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
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