SIR EDWARD ELGAR
GREATEST BRITISH COMPOSER SINGE PURCELL Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 24. Sir Edward Elgar declared as he died that ho was a Roman Catholic; thus discounting earlier reports based on his long and intimate association with Anglican cathedrals in the west of England that he ceased to be an orthodox Roman Catholic. The Press describes Sir Edward Elgar as the greatest British composer since Purcell; It is emphasised that a performance of the great ‘ Third Symphony ’ on which he was engaged before his illness is impossible, as it is merely a heap of fragments.
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Evening Star, Issue 21655, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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97SIR EDWARD ELGAR Evening Star, Issue 21655, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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