• The Severn Suite, Opus 87, is a musical work written by Sir Edward Elgar. It is a late composition, written in 1930, the result of an invitation to write...
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  • the day being commissioned for the Championship Section Final, many of them now staples of the genre, including Sir Edward Elgar's The Severn Suite (1930)...
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    The River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren, pronounced [ˈavɔn ˈhavrɛn]), at 220 miles (354 km) long, is the longest river in Great Britain. It is also the river...
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    George Bernard Shaw (category Deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom)
    commission Elgar's Third Symphony, and was the dedicatee of The Severn Suite (1930). The substance of Shaw's political legacy is uncertain. In 1921 Shaw's...
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  • until Schott changed the title to "Salut d'Amour" with Liebesgruss as a sub-title, and the composer's name as 'Ed. Elgar'. The French title, Elgar realised...
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  • Elgar's The Severn Suite arranged for brass band by David Lyon. The series remains available on DVD, as a download on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, and...
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    Cello Concerto (Elgar) (category Pages using the Score extension)
    of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going...
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  • (O'Shaughnessy) The text of the work is the 1874 poem Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, which Elgar set in its entirety. He had been working on the music intermittently...
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    The Dorabella Cipher is an enciphered letter written by composer Edward Elgar to Dora Penny, which was accompanied by another dated July 14, 1897. Penny...
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  • two suites based on music he had written as a child Overture In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 Falstaff, symphonic study, Op. 68 The Severn Suite, Op. 85...
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