A MASTER MUSICIAN
LATE SIR EDWARD €LGAR FUNERAL TO BE PRIVATE. (British Official Wireless.)RUGBY, February 23. The funeral of Sir Edward Elgar, the famous composer, who died to-day at his home in Worcester, will, in accordance with his own wish, be absolutely private. Telegrams of sympathy, received by his daughter, include a message from the King. The newspapers pay the highest tributes to Sir Edward Elgar’s genius, and declare that ho was one of the master musicians of the world. DIED A ROMAN CATHOLIC. LONDON, February 24. (Received Feb. 25, at 9 p.m.) Sir Edward Elgar declared as he died that he’ 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22197, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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176A MASTER MUSICIAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 22197, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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