Cello Concerto, Op.85
Edward Elgar
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Browse piano sheets by Edward Elgar on Zen Virtual Piano. Edward Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, England, on 2 June 1857. His father, William Henry Elgar (1821–1906), was raised in Dover and had been apprenticed to a London music publisher. All the Elgar children received a musical upbringing, and by the age of eight Elgar was taking piano and violin lessons; his father tuned the pianos at many grand houses in Worcestershire and would sometimes take him along, giving him the chance to display his skill to important local people. A father trained by a music publisher and later tuning pianos suggests a man whose working life touched music from more than one side. His only formal musical training beyond piano and violin lessons from local teachers was more advanced violin study with Adolf Pollitzer, during brief visits to London in 1877–78. Pollitzer believed that Elgar had the potential to be one of the leading soloists in the country, but Elgar, having heard leading virtuosi at London concerts, felt that his own violin playing lacked a full enough tone, and he abandoned his ambitions to be a soloist. A violinist who measured his own tone against the virtuosi he heard, and then turned elsewhere, shows self-judgment steering a career. Of his five Pomp and Circumstance marches (1901–07; 1930), the first became particularly famous. Also highly esteemed are his two symphonies (1908 and 1911), the Introduction and Allegro for strings (1905), the Violin Concerto (1910) and the Cello Concerto (1919). Five marches dated from 1901 to 1930, with one outshining the rest, show how a single piece can come to stand for a whole set. In 1904 he was knighted, and from 1905 to 1908 he was the University of Birmingham’s first professor of music; during World War I he wrote occasional patriotic pieces. A knighthood in 1904 and a university chair from 1905 show recognition arriving through both the public and the academy. Britannica describes his works as being in the orchestral idiom of late nineteenth-century Romanticism, characterized by bold tunes and striking colour effects. He died on February 23, 1934, in Worcester.
Browse piano sheets by Edward Elgar on Zen Virtual Piano.
Edward Elgar was born in the small village of Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, England, on 2 June 1857. His father, William Henry Elgar (1821–1906), was raised in Dover and had been apprenticed to a London music publisher. All the Elgar children received a musical upbringing, and by the age of eight Elgar was taking piano and violin lessons; his father tuned the pianos at many grand houses in Worcestershire and would sometimes take him along, giving him the chance to display his skill to important local people. A father trained by a music publisher and later tuning pianos suggests a man whose working life touched music from more than one side.
His only formal musical training beyond piano and violin lessons from local teachers was more advanced violin study with Adolf Pollitzer, during brief visits to London in 1877–78. Pollitzer believed that Elgar had the potential to be one of the leading soloists in the country, but Elgar, having heard leading virtuosi at London concerts, felt that his own violin playing lacked a full enough tone, and he abandoned his ambitions to be a soloist. A violinist who measured his own tone against the virtuosi he heard, and then turned elsewhere, shows self-judgment steering a career.
Of his five Pomp and Circumstance marches (1901–07; 1930), the first became particularly famous. Also highly esteemed are his two symphonies (1908 and 1911), the Introduction and Allegro for strings (1905), the Violin Concerto (1910) and the Cello Concerto (1919). Five marches dated from 1901 to 1930, with one outshining the rest, show how a single piece can come to stand for a whole set. In 1904 he was knighted, and from 1905 to 1908 he was the University of Birmingham’s first professor of music; during World War I he wrote occasional patriotic pieces. A knighthood in 1904 and a university chair from 1905 show recognition arriving through both the public and the academy. Britannica describes his works as being in the orchestral idiom of late nineteenth-century Romanticism, characterized by bold tunes and striking colour effects. He died on February 23, 1934, in Worcester.
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In the small village of Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, England, on 2 June 1857.
Although Adolf Pollitzer thought he could be a leading soloist, Elgar felt his own violin playing lacked a full enough tone and abandoned those ambitions.
The first of the five Pomp and Circumstance marches became particularly famous, and his two symphonies, the Introduction and Allegro for strings, the Violin Concerto and the Cello Concerto are also highly esteemed.