Music Of The Great Composers --

Sir Edward Elgar Elgar was born at Broadheath, near Worcester, England, June 2, 1857. His father was an organist, and also kept a music store in Worcester. Elgar's training was almost entirely along self help lines. He played the organ a little, studied the violin, and several wind instruments, helped at choral societies, conducted a band at a lunatic asylum, and wrote music for every combination of instruments he could think of. He once wrote a whole symphony in th..