Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar was born in Broadheath, a small town in England. His father owned a music shop and tuned pianos. While growing up, he studied the available music at his fathers shop and taught himself how to play a wide variety of instruments. For a while, he taught piano lessons and played the organ at St. George's Roman Catholic church in Worcester, England. A lot of his work has been music made out of poems or books written in England. One orchestra in particular called The Dream Of Gerontius, was written after a poem about the souls journey to its judgement and beyond. This means that The beliefs in England, which was mostly Roman Catholic, had a huge impact on the music he wrote and composed. Other Great works that were Catholic inspired were The kingdom and The Apostles. Also, he did a symphonic work based on the shakespear's The Falstaf.  This would mean that Edward was writing music based on other art forms in his culture. Edward stated that he wrote several pieces that were based on events that had happened to him in England. He wrote music about world war 1 and the effects it had on England. He also wrote a dedication to a beloved Monarch King Edward VII who had died. I would say that Edward based most of his music off of the Ethnicity and culture of England.




I got my resources at http://www.elgar.org/2english.htm and listened to a couple of works on Youtube.