Definitions for Elgar
ˈɛl gər, -gɑrel·gar

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1. Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Edward William Elgarnoun

   British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)

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1. Elgarnoun

   Edward Elgar, an English composer.

2. Elgarnoun

   A male given name from Old English.

3. Elgarnoun

   A patronymic surname. Edward Elgar, an English composer.

4. Etymology: From ælf + gar, merged with æþel + gar.

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1. Elgar

   Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, ( (listen); 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British Army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras. Elgar's music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death. It began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, but the music continues to be played more in Britain than elsewhere. Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the moving-coil microphone in 1923 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius.

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1. elgar

   Elgar is predominantly recognized as the surname of Sir Edward William Elgar, an distinguished English composer known for his orchestral works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term "Elgar" could refer to this individual or his work. His most notable compositions include the "Enigma Variations" and the "Pomp and Circumstance Marches."

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1. Elgar

   Elgar is a drama documentary made in 1962 by the British director Ken Russell. Made for BBC Television's long-running Monitor programme, it dramatised in vigorous style the life of the archetypically English composer Edward Elgar. The film had the effect of establishing Russell as a major directorial talent, and spawned a series of dramatised biographies of composers by Russell, both for cinema and television. Elgar became "one of the most popular films of its kind ever shown on TV, and contributed to a marked revival of interest in the composer's music." The film was narrated by Huw Wheldon. It was selected by the British Film Institute as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.

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1. ELGAR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Elgar is ranked #76029 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Elgar surname appeared 253 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Elgar.
   
   75.4% or 191 total occurrences were White.
   16.2% or 41 total occurrences were Asian.
   5.1% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.3% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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1. • Composer

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Anagrams for Elgar »

1. Alger

2. regal

3. glare

4. lager

5. large

How to pronounce Elgar?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Elgar in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Elgar in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Elgar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Elgar
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Elgar
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgar
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Elgar
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Elgar