An ode in her memory, " So many true princesses who have gone ", composed by the then Master of the King's Musick Sir Edward Elgar to words by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, was sung at the unveiling and conducted by the composer.

When Elgar was requested to write a work for the King's coronation, he worked the suggestion into his Coronation Ode, for which he asked the poet and essayist A. C. Benson to write the words.

Elgar created a separate song, which was first performed by Madame Clara Butt in June 1902.

This hidden theme has been the subject of much speculation, and various musicians have proposed theories for what melody it could be, although Elgar did not say that it was a melody.

Elgar revised the final variation, adding 100 new bars and an organ part ; the new version, the one usually played today, was played at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival on 13 September 1899, with Elgar conducting.

In ' My Friends Pictured Within ' Elgar wrote, " Hew David Steuart-Powell was a well-known amateur pianist and a great player of chamber music.

The theme also refers to the Norbury house, which Elgar was fond of.

: Augustus J. Jaeger was employed as music editor by the London publisher Novello & Co. For a long time he was a close friend of Elgar, giving him useful advice, but also severe criticism, something Elgar greatly appreciated.

Once, when Elgar had been very depressed and was about to give it all up and write no more music, Jaeger had visited him and encouraged him to continue composing.

Lady Mary Lygon was a personal friend of Elgar and his wife, promoter of the Madresfield Music Festivals and interested in Elgar's music.

In 1899, when the Variations were being finished, Elgar wrote to Lady Mary Lygon to ask permission to use her initials, but as she and her brother were on the point of leaving for Australia ( he had been appointed Governor of New South Wales ) and there was not time for a reply Elgar used "***" instead.

: A competing theory, propounded by conductor Sir Andrew Davis, is that this movement is about Helen Weaver, to whom Elgar was engaged for fourteen months.

In July 1899, one month after the original version was finished, Elgar's friend Jaeger, the person depicted in Variation IX, urged Elgar to make the variation a little longer.

The new version was played for the first time at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival, with Elgar himself conducting, on 13 September 1899.

Troyte Griffiths asked Elgar if the former was the hidden theme, and Elgar replied, " Of course not!

This theory was accepted by the president of the Elgar Society, Yehudi Menuhin.

This solution was favoured by Sir Charles Mackerras, who conducted a concert entitled " Elgar – The Enigma Solved?

The musical scholar Sir Jack Westrup insisted that according to Elgar's words it was clear that the theme was a melody: " Everyone who knew Elgar at the time is quite emphatic that he meant a tune.

There is evidence to suggest that Elgar composed part of the " Enigma Variations " in the church, but his offer of the original manuscript of his oratorio " The Apostles ", as a gift to the church, was refused by the Anglican church authorities because Elgar was a Roman Catholic and the oratorio was heavily based in that tradition.

The strong Roman Catholicism of the work gave rise to objections in some influential British quarters ; some Anglican clerics insisted that for performances in English cathedrals Elgar should modify the text to tone down the Roman Catholic references.

* Byron Adams " Elgar's later oratorios: Roman Catholicism, Decadence and the Wagnerian Dialectic of Shame and Grace " in The Cambridge Companion to Elgar ( Daniel Grimley and Julian Rushton, eds.

The words were fitted to the melody on the suggestion of King Edward VII who told Elgar he thought the melody would make a great song.

Edward Elgar also composed while on a visit to Tintagel.

The cathedral's west facade appeared, with a portrait of Sir Edward Elgar, on the reverse of £ 20 note issued by the Bank of England between 1999 and 2007.

An image of the cathedral's west facade appeared on the reverse of the Series E British £ 20 note commemorating Sir Edward Elgar, issued between 1999 and 2007.

It also refers to a specific memory, of a day on which Griffiths and Elgar were walking and got caught in a thunder-storm.

Remarkably, Elgar later related on several occasions how Jaeger had encouraged him as an artist and had stimulated him to continue composing despite setbacks.

", referring to Jaeger and Elgar ´ s wife Alice, " two great influences on the life and art of the composer ", as Elgar wrote in 1927.

The identities of all are known, and Elgar himself even provided brief notes on the subjects to accompany the five Duo-art pianola rolls of the Variations that the Aeolian Company introduced in 1929.

" Buckley, in his Elgar biography of 1905, wrote, " The theme is a counterpoint on some well-known melody which is never heard ".

The real theme of the Enigma Variations which is present everywhere throughout the work in different shapes, is rather short: it consists of only nine notes ( the first nine notes of Nimrod with added crotchet rests ) on the rhythm of Edward Elgar ’ s own name (" short-short-long-long ", and the reverse of it, " long-long-short-short " and an endnote ).

Professor Ian Parrott, former vice-president of the Elgar Society, in his book on Elgar ( Master Musicians, 1971 ) wrote that the " dark saying ", and possibly the whole of the Enigma, had a biblical source, 1 Corinthians 13: 12, which reads according to the Authorised Version of the Bible: " For now we see through a glass, darkly ( enigmate in the Latin of the Vulgate ); but then face to face: now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

The ballet, which depicts the friends and Elgar as he awaits Richter's decision about conducting the premiere, received its first performance on 25 October 1968 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London.

Elgar himself conducted the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra for its first electrical recording in 1926 on the HMV label.

" Shadows of the evening: new light on Elgar ’ s ‘ dark saying ’".

This technique was used in Morceau de Genre based on a small piece for violin and piano by Edward Elgar.

" There are passages in his music which evoke the ' sweet especial rural scene ' as vividly as Elgar or Vaughan Williams ; passages ( such as the Pastorale from the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli ) perhaps redolent of the Suffolk landscape with its gently undulating horizons, wide skies and soft lights.

Both in the concert hall and on record, Barbirolli was particularly associated with the music of English composers such as Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams.

Richter retired from conducting in 1911, and Sir Edward Elgar was elected conductor-in-chief for the 1911 – 12 season.

Fred Gaisberg of EMI arranged for a test recording of Elgar ’ s La Capricieuse ( Op. 17 ) with accompanist Ivor Newton at the Abbey Road Studios on 9 Jan. 1939 when Hassid had just turned 15 and then Walter Legge produced a further eight recordings on 12 and 28 June and 29 Nov. 1940, this time accompanied by Gerald Moore.

* February 23 – Edward Elgar, English composer ( Pomp and Circumstance ) ( b. 1857 )

Her last London concerts were in February 1973, including the Elgar Concerto with Zubin Mehta and the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

Natalia ’ s audition concert ( February 2004 ) included a performance of Elgar ’ s Cockaigne overture and Elgar has remained at the heart of her continuing relationship with the orchestra.

Derek Stephen Prince ( born February 5, 1969 in Inglewood, California ) is an American voice actor who is most memorable for his various roles in the Digimon series, as well as the voice of Elgar in the live-action Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers in Space.

On February 2008, Rivermaya released the album entitled Buhay with the carrier single " Sugal ng Kapalaran " of Fate penned by Sergio with both Fernandez and Sergio doing the vocals, while Elgar and Escueta do backing vocals.