In which town or city was Edward Elgar born?
"Elgar Birthplace Museum The Firs: Birthplace of Sir Edward Elgar in Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire, England is a museum dedicated to the English composer Edward Elgar. On 1 September 2017 the museum reopened under National Trust stewardship. Elgar was born here on 2 June 1857, and lived here until his family moved to Worcester two years later. The museum comprises the Birthplace Cottage and its garden, and the modern Elgar Centre, opened in 2000, which houses further exhibitions and a function room. The Museum displays give an insight into Elgar the man and social history as well as an opportunity to"
"acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the moving-coil microphone in 1923 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from ""The Dream of Gerontius"". Edward Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath, outside Worcester, England. His father, William Henry Elgar (1821–1906), was raised in Dover and had been apprenticed to a London music publisher. In 1841 William moved to Worcester, where he worked as a piano tuner and set up a shop selling sheet music and musical instruments. In 1848 he married"
"a member of its city council) when he lived in the city in 1905. The same year he was made an honorary Freeman of the city of Worcester. The house in Lower Broadheath where Elgar was born is now the Elgar Birthplace Museum, devoted to his life and work. Elgar's daughter, Carice, helped to found the museum in 1936 and bequeathed to it much of her collection of Elgar's letters and documents on her death in 1970. Carice left Elgar manuscripts to musical colleges: ""The Black Knight"" to Trinity College of Music; ""King Olaf"" to the Royal Academy of Music;"
"Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (; 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"
"of the Worcestershire Regiment's 2nd Battalion in the Battle of Gheluvelt during the First World War. The statue of Sir Edward Elgar, commissioned from Kenneth Potts and unveiled in 1981, stands at the end of Worcester High Street facing the cathedral, only yards from the original location of his father's music shop, which was demolished in the 1960s. Elgar's birthplace is a short way from Worcester, in the village of Broadheath. There are also two large woodlands in the city, Perry Wood and Nunnery Wood. They cover 12 hectares and 21 hectares respectively. Perry Wood is often said to be"
"Charlie Elgar Charles Anthony Elgar (June 13, 1879, New Orleans, Louisiana – August 1973, Chicago, Illinois) was an American violinist, musician, teacher and jazz bandleader. Charles A. Elgar was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 13, 1879. Elgar played violin as a child from age 5. He also played trumpet. He studied music in Wisconsin and Illinois. He was a founder and charter member of the local branch of the American Federation of Musiicians, AFL-CIO, Local 2018. He played in Chicago from 1903 with the Bloom Theater Philharmonic Orchestra, returning to New Orleans late in the decade of the"
"site just outside the city and has already proved so successful that trading and business is up on the previous site's record. The annual Three Choirs Festival, originating in the 18th century and one of the oldest music festivals in the British Isles, is held in Hereford every third year, the other venues being Gloucester and Worcester. Composer Sir Edward Elgar lived at Plas Gwyn, Eign Hill, in Hereford between 1904 and 1911, writing some of his most famous works during that time. He is commemorated with a statue on the Cathedral Close. One of his Enigma Variations was inspired"
"There is also a primary school (Broadheath C.E. Primary School). The school contains around 150 children, from the age of four up to eleven. There are also three pubs in the village. Broadheath is the birthplace of the English composer Edward Elgar. The cottage in which he was born is now a museum. Broadheath, Worcestershire Broadheath with Lower Broadheath is a civil parish officially known as ""Lower Broadheath"", in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 1,728. The parish also includes Upper Broadheath. The village is about 3 miles north-west"
"from 1813. The drinking spout, ""Malvhina"", by the sculptor Rose Garrard, was unveiled on 4 September 1998. The Enigma Fountain, also by Garrard, was unveiled by The Duke of York in 2000. Sir Edward Elgar, British composer and Master of the King's Musick, lived much of his life around Malvern and is buried in Little Malvern Roman Catholic churchyard. A sculpture group by artist Rose Garrard comprising the ""Enigma"" fountain together with a statue of Elgar gazing over Great Malvern stands on Belle Vue Terrace in the town centre. The ""Elgar Route"", a drive passing some key landmarks from Elgar's"
"British musicians of the day, including Edward Elgar, who incorporated into his ""Enigma Variations"" a portrait of Sinclair and his bulldog. Sinclair was born in Croydon, the son of Dr R S Sinclair, director of public education in Bombay. The family had Irish connections, and at the age of eight, Sinclair entered the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. In 1873, aged ten, he gained a choral scholarship at St. Michael's College, Tenbury, under the headship of Sir Frederick Ouseley. He remained there for six years, singing in the choir at the daily services and deputising as organist. 1879"
"the composer Sir Edward Elgar along the River Amazon in 1923. Regarded by admirers as being among the best British novels of the 1980s, its poetic language, dreamlike landscapes and lush imaginings won him the Whitbread Award for first novel. In 1992, he published ""Seven-Tenths"", a far-ranging meditation upon the sea and its meanings. A mixture of art, science, history and philosophy, this book is a deep, abstract lament on loss and the loss of meaning. In 2000, he returned to the magazine industry as a science columnist for ""Das Magazin"" (Zurich) for two years before becoming a science columnist"
"elaborated and essentially completed the work, although Reed wrote that in his view the symphony could not be completed. He was best known for his soft and humble music. His name appears in various forms: William Henry Reed, W. H. Reed, W. H. ""Billy"" Reed, Billy Reed and Willie Reed. He was known to his friends as Billy. William Henry Reed was born in Frome, Somerset. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London under Émile Sauret, Frederick Corder and others, graduating with honours. He first met Edward Elgar in 1902, as a violinist in the Queen's Hall"
"some of the pieces to her. Powick Asylum Music The Powick Asylum Music consists of a number of sets of dance music – quadrilles and polkas – written by Edward Elgar during his time as bandmaster at the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum (later Powick Asylum) between 1879 and 1884. The music was not published, but the original manuscripts of instrumental parts are preserved in the collection of the Elgar Birthplace Museum. In 1879 Elgar, at the age of 22, was appointed bandmaster at the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum. The band – formed from the attendants, not"
"Elizabeth, survived him. Apart from her membership of the Theosophical Society in its early days in Adelaide, little is known. Of their children, nothing has yet come to light. One, unnamed, has been mentioned as an aspiring playwright. E. V. Boulger Edward Vaughan Boulger (1846– 11 August 1910), generally known as Vaughan Boulger or E. V. Boulger, was an Irish academic whose career included Professor of Classics in the University of Adelaide. A Protestant by birth, he converted to Catholicism in his later years. Boulger was born in Dublin, a son of Persse Boulger, a solicitor with a practice in"
"Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in ""Gramophone"", described her performance of Mahler's ""Kindertotenlieder"" as ""intimate, almost self-communing."" Janet Abbott Baker was born in Hatfield, South Yorkshire, where her father was an engineer as well as a chorister. Members of her family worked at Bentley Pit, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She attended York College for Girls and then Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Grimsby. The death of her elder brother, Peter, when she was 10 years old, from a heart condition, was a formative moment that made her take responsibility for the rest of her life, she revealed in a BBC"
"Edith Fullagar of Parramatta, on 7 October 1897 at Perth's Roman Catholic cathedral. A daughter, Irene Sylvia was born in 1898. In 1898 he built a substantial residence, ""The Laurels"", now the Cottesloe Civic Centre, on top of a sand dune at the then northern extent of Broome Street, Cottesloe. In 1911 he sold the house to Claude de Bernales, moving to ""Oakham"", 50 Shenton Road, Claremont, now Swanbourne. He died there on 16 Jan 1914 after a long illness, hastened by a Perth summer heat wave, survived by his wife and daughter. He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. Pennefather"
"Edward Eagar Edward Eagar (1787–1866) was a lawyer, merchant and criminal. Eagar was born in Killarney, Ireland. His parents were landed gentry so he was well educated. He trained as a solicitor and became an attorney to His Majesty's Courts in Ireland. In 1809 he was charged with forging a bill of exchange, and he was convicted and sentenced to death. He pleaded for clemency and either his family influence or his conversion to Christianity saw him gaoled for 18 months until he was transported to Sydney. The chaplain sent with him to Australia a letter to Reverend Samuel Marsden"
"print and publishes more than 300 new titles a year. The first Edward Elgar Publishing book titles were published in 1987 and included ""The Economics of Education and the Education of an Economist"" by Mark Blaug, ""The Economic Revival of Modern Britain"" by David Coates and John Hillard, and ""Economic Choice Under Uncertainty"" by J.L. Ford. Edward Elgar Publishing is a family run business. The company is named after the founder and current Chairman Edward Elgar who moved to Gloucestershire to start the business in 1986, from the study of the family home in Middleton. There is no known connection"
"Francis Elgar Prof Francis Elgar FRS FRSE LLD (1845 – 17 January 1909), naval architect, born at Portsmouth on 24 April 1845, was eldest son of nine children of Francis Ancell Elgar, who was employed at Portsmouth dockyard, by his wife Susanna Chalkley. At fourteen Elgar was apprenticed as a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, where his general education was continued at an excellent school for apprentices maintained by the admiralty. There he won a scholarship entitling him to advanced instruction. In 1864, when the admiralty, with the science and art department, established the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine"
"Frederick Bridge, whose ""Cantata"" was performed in 1885; and Herbert Wareing, who had an overture performed in 1886. The composer Edward Elgar played violin in Stockley's Orchestra for seven years from 1882 to 1889, seeking more professional experience than was available in his native Worcester. His first concert was on 30 November 1882 at Birmingham Town Hall, where he took part in a performance of a suite from Delibes' ballet ""Sylvia"". He would perform in every concert the orchestra played from then until his final performance on 7 November 1889. His intensive participation in these concerts would give him insights"
"soldier as director of the Middle East College of Art in the Sahara Desert. For 30 years Garrard was based in London and internationally known as a multi-media artist and curator, but following a serious motor bike accident she moved back to Worcestershire in 2000, focussing instead on making public sculpture. She creates these works using many media including plaster of Paris, bronze, stone, slate, and brick. Among her sculptures are the ""Enigma Fountain"" including the statue of Sir Edward Elgar (Unveiled by The Duke of York on Belle Vue Terrace, Great Malvern on 26 May 2000). Its cost of"
"Jerrold Northrop Moore Jerrold Northrop Moore (born 1934) is an American-born British musicologist, best known for a biography and other writings on the life and music of Sir Edward Elgar. He is also an authority on the history of the gramophone. Moore was born in Paterson, New Jersey and was brought up in the United States. He studied at Yale University, taught at the University of Rochester from 1958 to 1961, and was Curator of Historical Sound Recordings at Yale from 1961 to 1970. He has lived in England since 1970. Jerrold Northrop Moore's book ""Edward Elgar: A Creative Life"""
"or stupidity. Before he became England's most famous composer, in 1879 at the age of 22 Edward Elgar was appointed bandmaster of the asylum until about 1886, and wrote compositions for the asylum's band. A former water mill, next to Powick Bridge, was converted in 1894 to become the world's first combined steam/hydro electric power station. Electricity from this mill provided about half the city of Worcester's needs. The Powick site continued generating until the 1950s. When it closed, it was converted into a laundry and has since been converted into residential apartments. The site was chosen as a mill"
"of Wolverhampton. Dora's mother had died in February 1874, six days after giving birth to Dora, after which her father worked for many years as a missionary in Melanesia. In 1895 Dora's father remarried, and Dora's stepmother was a friend of Caroline Alice Elgar. In July 1897 the Penny family invited Edward and Alice Elgar to stay at the Wolverhampton Rectory for a few days. Edward Elgar was a forty-year-old music teacher who had yet to become a successful composer. Dora Penny was almost seventeen years his junior. Edward and Dora liked one another and remained friends for the rest"
"Station, near Kilmore, Victoria. The seventh child of Edwin Willis and Helen Maygar (née Grimshaw), his full name was Edgar Leslie Cecil Willis Walker Maygar. Both of his parents were originally from Bristol, England, although his father's family were originally political refugees from Hungary. Educated at state schools in Kilmore and Alexandra, his family moved north to the Strathbogie Ranges region of Ruffy when he was about 20 years old, where he worked on his father's property. In March 1891 he enlisted in the Victorian Mounted Rifles. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Maygar unsuccessfully attempted to volunteer"
"of these different instruments. ... He thereby got to know intimately the tone colour, the ins and outs of these and many other instruments."" He held the post for five years, from 1879, travelling to Powick once a week. Another post he held in his early days was professor of the violin at the Worcester College for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen. Although rather solitary and introspective by nature, Elgar thrived in Worcester's musical circles. He played in the violins at the Worcester and Birmingham Festivals, and one great experience was to play Dvořák's Symphony No. 6 and ""Stabat Mater"""
"by Carl Fuchs, cellist of the Brodsky Quartet and professor at the Royal Manchester College of Music. In February 1900, Elgar and his wife attended a performance of his ""Enigma Variations"" in Manchester, conducted by Hans Richter. At supper after the concert Richter introduced Elgar to Adolph Brodsky and his wife, and to Carl Fuchs. Fuchs then asked Elgar to compose a quartet for them. In 1917, Elgar was ill and depressed by war-time London. He began work on the String Quartet on 25 March 1918, while recovering at home at Severn House after having his tonsils removed. He finished"
"1901 and to which the words of ""Land of Hope and Glory"" were later set, was first performed in the Wyche School next to the church in the presence of Elgar. A sculpture group by artist Rose Garrard comprising the ""Enigma"" fountain together with a statue of Elgar gazing over Great Malvern stands on Belle Vue Terrace in the town centre. The ""Elgar Route"", a drive passing some key landmarks from Elgar's life, passes through Malvern. Malvern Concert Club, founded in 1903 by Elgar, holds concerts held in the Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres. Its programmes focus on renaissance, baroque, classical,"
"three were involved in the BBC broadcast of the midnight and Christmas morning services in 2007, with the boys and the girls of the Cathedral Choir, respectively, taking the lead in the two services. Since the 18th century, Worcester Cathedral Choir has taken part in the Three Choirs Festival, the oldest music festival in the world. The composer Edward Elgar spent most of his life in Worcestershire. The first performance of the revised version of his Enigma Variations – the version usually performed – took place at the cathedral during the 1899 Three Choirs Festival. He is commemorated in a"
"subtle but none the less true and sturdy English quality"". He began composing at an early age; for a play written and acted by the Elgar children when he was about ten, he wrote music that forty years later he rearranged with only minor changes and orchestrated as the suites titled ""The Wand of Youth"". Until he was fifteen, Elgar received a general education at Littleton (now Lyttleton) House school, near Worcester. However, his only formal musical training beyond piano and violin lessons from local teachers consisted of more advanced violin studies with Adolf Pollitzer, during brief visits to London"
"Edward Delmar Morgan Edward Delmar Morgan (19 April 1840 – 18 May 1909) was an English explorer, translator and author. He was born in Stratford, Essex, on 19 April 1840 to Edward John Morgan and Mary Anne Parland. He attended Eton College from 1854 to 1857. After that, he lived in St. Petersburg with his parents and learned to speak Russian at that point. He went on to use his fluency in English and Russian to become a translator. On 25 September 1873, he was married to Bertha Jardine and had seven children with her – four sons and three"
"of the festival, conducted by Elgar, was primarily orchestral, apart for an excerpt from ""Caractacus"" and the complete ""Sea Pictures"" (sung by Clara Butt). The orchestral items were ""Froissart"", the ""Enigma Variations"", ""Cockaigne"", the first two (at that time the only two) ""Pomp and Circumstance"" marches, and the premiere of a new orchestral work, ""In the South"", inspired by a holiday in Italy. Elgar was knighted at Buckingham Palace on 5 July 1904. The following month, he and his family moved to Plâs Gwyn, a large house on the outskirts of Hereford, overlooking the River Wye, where they lived until"
"Edward William Elton Edward William Elton (August 1794–20 July 1843), was an English actor. Eltonwas born in London, in the parish of Lambeth, in August 1794, and was trained for the law in the office of a solicitor named Springhall in Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn. His father, whose name was Elt, was a schoolmaster in the neighbourhood of Tottenham Court Road, and got up plays among his scholars. In these, at the Sans Souci Theatre in Leicester Place, and subsequently at Pym's private theatre, Wilson Street, Gray's Inn Lane, Elton acted, as a youth. After joining a strolling company, he"