It also gave his creative impetus and his musical ambitions the boost they needed. All of Elgar’s important music was written during the 30 years of his marriage to Alice. They had one child, their ...

and Master of the King’s Musick (Elgar) to Edward VII’s much-lamented consort. "The Abbey Choir […] give an excellent account of themselves, the trebles especially singing with the confidence of ...

Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) wrote very little solo music for the organ, despite the fact that he was for a short time a professional organist. Given this ambiguous nature of Elgar’s relationship with ...

From July 2013. Show more How the choral work The Dream of Gerontius, by Edward Elgar, has touched and changed people's lives. For Terry Waite, it was the first piece of music he heard as a ...