Edward Elgar and His World (79 page)

84. Trowell, “Elgar's Use of Literature,” 229–32.

85.
Gerontius
had perhaps it greatest Continental success in Düsseldorf, where in 1890, out of a population of 144,000 thousand people, 105,000 were Catholics. On Viennese critical reaction to
Gerontius
, see Sandra McColl,
“Gerontius
in the City of Dreams: Newman, Elgar, and the Viennese Critics,”
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
32, no. 1 (June 2001): 47–64.

86. The quotation comes from the first of these lectures, “Of Kings' Treasuries.”

87. John Ruskin,
The Complete Works of John Ruskin
, vol. 18 (London: George Allen, 1905), 34.

88. E. M. Forster,
Howards End
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 38. I want to thank my Bard College colleague, Deirdre d'Albertis, a specialist in Victorian literature, for bringing this passage to my attention in response to an oral presentation of this essay given at a Bard Faculty Seminar in February 2007.

89. See Forster's
Howards End
and his music essays, “The C Minor of That Life” and “Not Listening to Music,” in
Two Cheers for Democracy
(London: Edward Arnold, 1951).

90. Forster, “Not Listening to Music,” 138.

91. Ruskin,
Complete Works
, 51.

92. Ibid., 60.

93. Ibid., 152.

94. Ibid., 153.

95. Ibid., 186.

96. Ibid., 153.

97. Ibid., 178–79.

98. Ibid., 61.

99. McGuire,
Elgar's Oratorios
, 136.

100. Sheridan Gilley,
Newman and His Age
, 2nd ed. (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2003), 430–31.

101. Elgar,
Letters to Publishers
, 1:228.

102. Ibid.

103. Newman was also avid in his interest in music. He played the violin and was particularly devoted to the quartets of Beethoven. See Ian Ker,
John Henry Newman
, 573–74, 610.

104. Anderson,
Elgar
, 65.

105. See A. J. Jaeger's
The Apostles: Analytical and Descriptive Notes
(London: Novello, n.d.); and his
The Kingdom: Analytical and Descriptive Notes
(Borough Green: Novello, n.d.).

106. On the issue of realism as a concept in nineteenth-Century music, see Carl Dahlhaus,
Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music
, trans. Mary Whittall (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). Even beyond Wagner, rhetorical correspondences in musical practice could form the basis of an analogy to realism if, as in Liszt's tone poems, the structure followed either a literary or pictorial framework.

107. Anderson,
Elgar
, 80.

108. Ibid., 99, 115.

109. Quoted in Elizabeth Prettejohn,
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), 191.

110. Ibid., 243.

111. Percy M. Young,
Alice Elgar: Enigma of a Victorian Lady
(London: Dobson, 1978), 65.

112. Anderson,
Elgar
, 17–18.

113. See Byron Adams's “Elgar's Later Oratorios. Roman Catholicism, Decadence, and the Wagnerian Dialectic of Shame and Grace,” in Grimley and Rushton,
Cambridge Companion to Elgar
, 92–93.

114. Quoted in Moore,
Edward Elgar: A Creative Life
, 401. Kramskoi (1837–87) was a leading St. Petersburg painter and art critic.
Christ in the Wilderness
was bought in 1872 by Pawel Tretyakov and now resides in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The painting is reproduced in
The Tretyakov Gallery: A Panorama of Russian and Soviet Art
(Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983), plate no. 57; see also 335. Anderson refers to this painting
(Elgar
, 59) and gives its proper date but mistakenly identifies it as
The Temptation of Christ.

115. Elgar,
A Future for English Music
, 33.

116. Ibid., 201.

 

 

INDEX

 

Index

Index to Elgar's Works

Apostles, The

early reviews, in British periodicals

“In the Tower of Magdala”

Ave Verum Corpus

Banner of St. George, The

Beau Brummell

Black Knight, The

Caractacus

Carillon

Cello Concerto in E Minor (1919)

Adagio of

Chanson de matin

Chanson de nuit

Characteristic Dances

Cockaigne
Overture

Concert Allegro for piano

Coronation March

Coronation Ode

Crown of India, The
(masque and suite)

“Dance of the Nautch Girls”

“Entrance of John Company” (see “Menuetto”)

“Hail, Immemorial Ind!”

“March of the Mogul Emperors”

“Menuetto”

as popular entertainment

“Rule of England”

Drapeau belge, Le

Dream of Gerontius, The

composing of

“Demon's Chorus”

premiere of

The Spirit of England
and

Ecce Sacerdos

Elegy for Strings

Empire March

Enigma
Variations,
see
Variations on an Original Theme, op. 36 (the
Enigma
Variations)

Falstaff

First Symphony

Adagio from

Fringes of the Fleet

Froissart

Harmony Music no. 5

Imperial March

Indian Dawn

In the South

dedication of overture

Introduction and Allegro

Welsh tune in

Kingdom, The

King Olaf

Last Judgement, The

Lux Christi
(premiered as
The Light of Life
)

“Meditation”

Minuet for Piano (1897, later orchestrated for op. 21)

Music Makers, The

Nursery Suite

“Dreaming”

“Pleading”

Pomp and Circumstance
Marches

March No. 1

“Land of Hope and Glory” tune

March No. 2

March No. 5

“River, The,” op. 60, no. 2

“Rondel”

Salut d'amour

Sanguine Fan, The
, op. 81

Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, see
King Olaf

Sea Pictures

Second Symphony

Larghetto of

Serenade for Strings

Severn Suite,
op. 87

“Smoking Cantata”

“Spanish Serenade”

“Speak Music”

Spirit of England, The
, op. 80

“For the Fallen”

“The Fourth of August”

title of

“To Women”

“Stabat Mater Dolorosa”

Starlight Express, The

Symphony no. 1,
see
First Symphony Symphony no. 2,
see
Second Symphony

Third Symphony, xix

Une voix dans le désert

Variations on an Original Theme, op. 36 (the
Enigma
Variations)

composing of

“Nimrod” variation

premiere of

Very Easy Melodious Exercises in the First Position
, op. 22 for violin and piano

Vesper Voluntaries
for organ, op. 14

Violin Concerto in B Minor, op. 61

Wand of Youth Suite, op. 1A

Subject and Name Index

Note: EE stands for Edward Elgar throughout the index

Abbate, Carolyn

Aberdeen University Choral

Orchestral Society

Abraham, Gerald

Adams, Byron

Adler, Guido,
Handbuch der Musikgeschichte

Albani, Emma

Albert Hall

Aldington, Richard

Alexandra, Queen

Anderson, Mary

Anderson, Percy

Anderson, Robert

Anglican Church

Aristotle

Arkwright, John Stanhope

Arnold, Matthew,

Culture and Anarchy

Arvin, Newton

Asquith, Herbert

Athenaeum Club

Atkins, Ivor

Austen, Jane

Austin, Frederic

Austin, William W.

Bach, Johann Sebastian,

B-Minor Mass

Bailey, Peter

Baker, Geoffrey,
Chronicles

Baker, Dalton

Balfour, Frank

Bantock, Granville

Barker, Felix,
The House That Stoll Built

Barrie, J. M.

Barringer, Tim

Bartok, Bela

Batten, Mabel Veronica

Baughan, Edward Algernon

Baughan, J. H. G.

BBC

Beethoven, Ludwig van,

Drei Equale

Eighth Symphony

Emperor
Concerto

Eroica
Symphony

Bennett, Joseph

Bennett, Thomas Case Sterndale,
My Hymn of Hate

Bennett, William Sterndale

Benson, A. C.

Berlioz, Hector

Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration

Bernhard, Walter

Betts, Percy

Binyon, Lawrence

see also The Winnowing-Fan: Poems of the Great War

Birchwood Lodge (Elgar home)

Bird, John

Birmingham Festival

Birmingham Post

Biswas, Tarak Nath

Black, Andrew

Blake, William

Bliss, Arthur

Blumenthal, Jacques

Boatwright, Thomas,
Indian March: The Diamond Jubilee

Boer Wars

Bookman, The

Booth, John

Borodin, Alexander

Prince Igor

Borwick Leonard

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Botstein, Leon

Boughton, Rutland

Boult, Adrian

Bouverie, Helen, (Viscountess Folkestone, Lady Radnor)

Bradley, A. C., “The Rejection of

Falstaff”

Brahms, Johannes

“Four Serious Songs”

Third Symphony

Brand, Tita

Braun, Francis

Brema, Marie

Brewer, A. H.

Bridge, Frank

Bridges, Robert

The Spirit of Man

Brinkwells (Elgar home)

British Musical Renaissance

Britten, Benjamin

Brooke, Rupert

Buck, Charles

Buckley, Robert J.

Burger, Peter

Burley, Rosa

Burne-Jones, Edward

Ascension

The Golden Stairs

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Butt, Clara

Butt, John

Butterworth, George

Cambridge University, EE's honorary degree from

Cammaerts, Émile

Campbell, Colin

Cannadine, David

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, Archbishop of

Capell, Richard

Carlyle, Thomas

Casals, Pablo

Catel, Charles-Simon

Catholic Directory

Catholic Encyclopedia

Catholicism and Catholics in England

see also
Elgar, Edward, as Catholic

Catholic Truth Society

Cavell, Edith

Cherubini, Luigi

Chevalier, Albert

Chopin, Frédéric

Christian Socialists

Cingalee, The

Clark, James,
Duty
or
The Great Sacrifice

Clarke, Rebecca

Clive, Major-General Robert

Coates, John

Cobbett, William,
History of the Protestant Reformation; Rural Rides

Cohen, Alex

Coldstream Guards

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

College Hall, Worcester

Colvin, Frances

Colvin, Sidney

Copland, Aaron

Cordova, Rudolph de

Cornhill Magazine

Covent Garden

Cowen, Frederic H.

“The Nautch Girl's Song”

Cowgill, Rachel

Craeg Lea (Elgar home)

Cromwell, Oliver

Crump, Jeremy

Crystal Palace

Cumberland, Gerald,
see
Charles

Frederick Kenyon Cunliffe, Whit

Curzon, George, Viceroy of India

Dahlhaus, Carl

Daily Dispatch, The

Daily Express, The

Daily Graphic, The

Daily News

Daily Sketch, The

Daily Telegraph, The

Dame school, Walsh's

Dante

Daughters of the Heart of Mary

Davies, David Thomas Ffrangçon

Davies, Fanny

Dearth, Harry

Debussy, Claude

de Grey, Lady Gladys (later Marchioness of Ripon)

De-la-Noy, Michael

Delhi Durbar

Delibes, Lèo,
Lakmé

de Navarro, M. Antonio

Dent, Edward J.

Destrée, Olivier Georges

De Vere-Sapio, Clementina

Dew-Smith, Alice

Dickens, Charles

Dolin, Anton

Doolan, Father Brian

St. George's, Worcester

Drayton, Michael,
Polyolbion

“Dream of Gerontius, The” (poem)

Dresser, Marcia van

Dryden, John

Duffy, Eamon

Dundee Ladies' Orchestra

Dunsany, Lord

Dvo
ák, Antonin