LATE SIR E. ELGAR
HIGH PRESS TRIBUTES LONDON, Feb. 24. 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 had ceased to be an orthodox Roman Catholic. The funeral, at his request, will be quite private, with no mourning and no flowers.
The press describes him as the greatest'British composer since Purcell, and emphasises that his performance was just as great. His Third Symphony, on which he was engaged before his illness, is impossible, as it is merely a heap of fragments.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 7
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107LATE SIR E. ELGAR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 7
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