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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 June 1857
- Died
- 23 February 1934
- Place of birth
- Lower Broadheath
- Place of death
- Worcester
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- Elgar
- Spouse
- Caroline Alice Elgar
- Genre
- classical music, symphony
- Field of work
- composer
- Awards
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, Walter Willson Cobbett Medal, Order of Merit, baronet
- birth name
- Edward William Elgar
- cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- described by source
- Riemann's Music Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Q109266357, Portrait of Elgar, Elgar, O. M.: A Study of a Musician, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers, Small Soviet Encyclopedia
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- New College Worcester
- employer
- University of Birmingham
- instrument
- organ
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- list of works
- list of compositions by Edward Elgar
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Edward Elgar
- noble title
- baronet
- notable work
- Salut d'Amour, Concert Allegro, Dream Children, Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, The Dream of Gerontius, Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 2, Falstaff, Cello Concerto, Introduction and Allegro
- place of burial
- St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church
- record label
- His Master's Voice, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips Records
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Edward Elgar
- student of
- Adolf Pollitzer
- topic's main category
- Category:Edward Elgar
- writing language
- English
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