Elgar (disambiguation)
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Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO 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...

(1857-1934) was an English Romantic composer.

Elgar may also refer to:
  • Edward Elgar Publishing
    Edward Elgar Publishing
    Edward Elgar Publishing, founded in 1986, is an independent family-owned international publisher, with offices in Cheltenham and Camberley in the UK and Northampton, Massachusetts, in the USA. It specializes in the academic market and publishes in the field of economics, law, Management studies,...

    , an international academic social science publisher
  • Elgar (film)
    Elgar (film)
    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....

    , a 1962 drama documentary
  • Elgar Technology College
    Elgar Technology College
    Elgar Technology College was a secondary school in Worcester, Worcestershire, England that was formed in 1983 and closed in 2009. It was a co-educational community school with an enrollment of about 860 students aged from 11 to 16. Elgar held Specialist Technology College status.The school was...

    , a defunct school in Worcester, Worcestershire, England
  • Elgar, a villain in Power Rangers: Turbo

People with the surname

  • Dean Elgar
    Dean Elgar
    Dean Elgar, born 11 June 1987 in Welkom, is a South African cricketer. He captained the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2006. He now plays for Free State and Eagles in the major South African cricket competitions.-References:...

     (born 1987), South African cricketer
  • Sybil Elgar
    Sybil Elgar
    Sybil Elgar , was a pioneer in the education and care of both children and adults with autism. She was a founding member of the British National Autistic Society, and she was awarded member of the Order of the British Empire in 1975...

     (1914-2007), British educator

People with the given name

  • Elgar Howarth
    Elgar Howarth
    Elgar Howarth is an English conductor and composer.Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music , where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and the...

     (born 1935), English conductor and composer
  • George Elgar Hicks
    George Elgar Hicks
    George Elgar Hicks was an English painter during the Victorian era. He is best known for his large genre paintings, which emulate William Powell Frith in style, but was also a society portraitist.-Biography:...

    (1824-1914), English painter
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