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See also:ELGAR, See also:SIR See also:EDWARD (1857– ) , See also:English musical composer, son of W. H. Elgar, who was for many years organist in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:George at See also:Worcester, was See also:born there on the and of See also:June 18J7. His See also:father's connexion with See also:music at Worcester, with the See also:Glee See also:Club and with the Three Choirs Festivals, supplied him with varied opportunities for a musical See also:education, and he learnt to See also:play several See also:instruments. In 1879 he became bandmaster at the See also:county lunatic See also:asylum, and held that See also:post 6111884. He was also a member of an See also:orchestra at See also:Birmingham, and in 1883 an intermezzo by him was played there at a See also:concert. In 1882 he became conductor of the Worcester See also:Amateur Instrumental Society; and in 1885 he succeeded his father as organist at St George's, Worcester. There hewrote a certain amount of church music. In 1889 he moved to See also:London, but finding no encouragement retired to See also:Malvern in 1891; in 1904 he went to live at See also:Hereford, and in 1905 was made See also:professor of music at Birmingham University. To the public generally he was hardly known till his See also:oratorio The See also:Dream of Gerontius was performed at Birmingham in 1900, but this was at once received as a new See also:revelation in English music, both at See also:home and by See also:Richard See also:Strauss in See also:Germany, and the composer was made a See also:Mus. Doc. at See also:Cambridge. His experience in See also:writing church music for a Roman Catholic service cannot be overlooked in regard to this and other See also:works by Elgar, who came to be regarded as the representative of a Catholic or neo-Catholic See also:style of religious music, for which an appreciative public was ready in See also:England at the moment, owing to the See also:recent developments in the more See also:artistic and sensuous See also:side of the religious See also:movement. And the same See also:interest attached to his later oratorios, The Apostles (1903) and The See also:Kingdom (1906). But Elgar's sudden rise into popularity, confirmed by his being knighted in 1904, See also:drew See also:attention to his other productions. In 1896 his Scenes front the See also:Saga of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Olaf was recognized by musicians as a See also:fine See also:work, and in the same See also:year his Scenes from the Bavarian See also:Highlands and Lux Christi were performed; and apart from other important compositions, his See also:song-See also:cycle See also:Sea-Pictures was sung at See also:Norwich in 1899 by See also:Clara See also:Butt, and his orchestral See also:Variations on an See also:original theme were given at a See also:Richter concert in the same year. In 1901 his popular See also:march " Pomp and Circumstance " was played at a See also:promenade concert, the stirring See also:melody of his song " See also:Land of See also:Hope and See also:Glory " being effectually utilized. It is impossible here to enumerate all Sir Edward Elgar's works, which have excited a See also:good See also:deal of See also:criticism in musical circles without impairing his See also:general recognition as one of the few front-See also:rank English composers of his See also:day; but his most important later See also:production, his first orchestral See also:symphony, produced in 1908 with immediate success, raised his reputation as a composer to an even higher See also:place, as a work of marked See also:power and beauty, developing the symphonic See also:form with the originality of a real See also:master of his See also:art. In 1908 he resigned his professorship at Birmingham University.
End of Article: ELGAR, SIR EDWARD (1857– )
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