"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."
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Constant Lambert Music Ho! (London: Hogarth Press, [1934] 1985) p. 240.
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Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Bt. (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer. He was Master of the King's Musick from 1924.
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