A NEW biography of composer Sir Edward Elgar has just been published. The author is Michael Messenger, former county librarian, a director of the Elgar Foundation and chairman of the Elgar Birthplace ...

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO ( 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1923) is one of England’s greatest composers, best known for big works like his “Enigma Variations,” the violin and cello concertos, the oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” and, ...

SEVENTY-five years after Worcestershire’s most famous son died his music can still raise the roof. Sir Edward Elgar, the self-taught violinist and composer, left a lasting impression on the world and, ...

Jerrold Northrop Moore, who has died aged 90, was an American academic who devoted much of his career to the British composer Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), sweeping up the biographical facts in the ...

A piece of music signed by Sir Edward Elgar has sold for £5,400 at auction, following its discovery nearly a century after being written. The 1924 manuscript was folded up in an autograph book which ...

The ‘andante’ dating to 1924 was notated on musical manuscript and then signed by the great composer - who was also a Wolves fan. He regularly cycled to matches from his home in Great Malvern, ...

The British Parliament is set to discuss whether England should have its own national anthem, replacing the unofficial "God Save the Queen." Most Britons don't know that one of their country's famed ...

A piece of music signed by Sir Edward Elgar has sold for £5,400 at auction, following its discovery nearly a century after being written. The 1924 manuscript was folded up in an autograph book which ...