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Edward Elgar
9 quotes
“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In conversation in 1896, quoted in R J Buckley Sir Edward Elgar (London: Bodley Head, 1905), p. 32.
“To my friends pictured within.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dedication to the Enigma Variations (1899).
“The enigma I will not explain – its "dark saying" must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elgar's programme note to the Enigma Variations, quoted in Simon Mundy Elgar (London: Omnibus Press, [1980] 2001) p. 64.
“I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to A. J. Jaeger, October 9, 1900.
“People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Canon Gorton, organizer of the Morecambe Music Festival, published in The Musical Times, July 1903.
“Play it like something you hear down by the river.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diana M McVeagh Edward Elgar: His Life and Music (London: J. M. Dent, 1955) p. 163.
“His range is so Handelian that he can give the people a universal melody or march with as sure a hand as he can give the Philharmonic Society a symphonic adagio, such as has not been given since Beethoven died.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Bernard Shaw, in Music and Letters, January 1920.
“The aggressive Edwardian prosperity that lends so comfortable a background to Elgar's finales is now as strange to us as the England that produced Greensleeves and The Woodes so wilde. Stranger, in fact, and less sympathetic. In consequence much of Elgar's music, through no fault of its own, has for the present generation an almost intolerable air of smugness, self-assurance and autocratic benevolence.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Constant Lambert Music Ho! (London: Hogarth Press, [1934] 1985) p. 240.
“Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.”
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anthony Burgess in The Observer, 1983; reprinted in his Homage to Qwert Yuiop (London: Abacus, 1987) p. 567.