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===Early years=== |
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Edward Elgar was born in the small village of [[Broadheath, Worcestershire|Lower Broadheath]], |
Edward Elgar was born in the small village of [[Broadheath, Worcestershire|Lower Broadheath]], outside [[Worcester, England|Worcester]], England, on 2 June 1857. His father, William Henry Elgar (1821–1906), was raised in [[Dover]] and had been apprenticed to a London music publisher. In 1841 William moved to Worcester, where he worked as a [[Piano tuning|piano tuner]] and set up a shop selling sheet music and musical instruments.<ref name=dnb>{{cite encyclopedia|author-link=Michael Kennedy (music critic)|last=Kennedy|first=Michael|title=Elgar, Sir Edward William, baronet (1857–1934)|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32988}}</ref> In 1848 he married Ann Greening (1822–1902), daughter of a farm worker.<ref name=grove>McVeagh, Diana, [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/08709?q=elgar&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit "Elgar, Edward".]''Grove Music Online''. Retrieved 20 April 2010 {{subscription}} {{Cite web |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000008709?_start=1&pos=1&q=elgar&search=quick |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-date=13 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413110844/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000008709?_start=1&pos=1&q=elgar&search=quick |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> |
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Edward was the fourth of their seven children.{{refn|His siblings were Henry John ("Harry", 1848–1864), Lucy Ann ("Loo", 1852–1925), Susannah Mary ("Pollie", 1854–1925), Frederick Joseph ("Jo", 1859–1866), Francis Thomas ("Frank", 1861–1929), and Helen Agnes ("Dot", 1864–1939).<ref>Moore (1984), p. 14</ref>|group= n}} Ann Elgar had converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before Edward's birth, and he was baptised and brought up as a Roman Catholic, to the disapproval of his father.{{refn|William Elgar was evidently sceptical of ''any'' branch of the church: he wrote of "the absurd superstition and play-house mummery of the Papist; the cold and formal ceremonies of the Church of England; or the bigotry and rank hypocrisy of the Wesleyan".<ref>''Quoted'' in Moore (1984), p. 6</ref>|group= n}} William Elgar was a violinist of professional standard and held the post of organist of [[St George's Church, Worcester|St George's Roman Catholic Church, Worcester]], from 1846 to 1885. At his instigation, masses by [[Luigi Cherubini|Cherubini]] and [[Johann Nepomuk Hummel|Hummel]] were first heard at the [[Three Choirs Festival]] by the orchestra in which he played the violin.<ref name=mt00>"Edward Elgar", ''[[The Musical Times]]'', 1 October 1900, pp. 641–48</ref> |
Edward was the fourth of their seven children.{{refn|His siblings were Henry John ("Harry", 1848–1864), Lucy Ann ("Loo", 1852–1925), Susannah Mary ("Pollie", 1854–1925), Frederick Joseph ("Jo", 1859–1866), Francis Thomas ("Frank", 1861–1929), and Helen Agnes ("Dot", 1864–1939).<ref>Moore (1984), p. 14</ref>|group= n}} Ann Elgar had converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before Edward's birth, and he was baptised and brought up as a Roman Catholic, to the disapproval of his father.{{refn|William Elgar was evidently sceptical of ''any'' branch of the church: he wrote of "the absurd superstition and play-house mummery of the Papist; the cold and formal ceremonies of the Church of England; or the bigotry and rank hypocrisy of the Wesleyan".<ref>''Quoted'' in Moore (1984), p. 6</ref>|group= n}} William Elgar was a violinist of professional standard and held the post of organist of [[St George's Church, Worcester|St George's Roman Catholic Church, Worcester]], from 1846 to 1885. At his instigation, masses by [[Luigi Cherubini|Cherubini]] and [[Johann Nepomuk Hummel|Hummel]] were first heard at the [[Three Choirs Festival]] by the orchestra in which he played the violin.<ref name=mt00>"Edward Elgar", ''[[The Musical Times]]'', 1 October 1900, pp. 641–48</ref> |
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