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Elgar   /ˈɛlgər/   Listen
Elgar

noun
1.
British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934).  Synonyms: Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Edward William Elgar.






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"Elgar" Quotes from Famous Books



... does not mean that L'Amore dei Tre Re is less delightful. The same may be said of Ludwig Thuille and also of the Neo-Belgian group. Sibelius, the Finn, is a composer with a marked temperament. Among the English Delius shows strongest. He is more personal and more original than Elgar. Not one of these can tie the shoe-strings of Peter Cornelius, the composer of short masterpieces, The Barber of Bagdad—the original, not ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker



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