Elgar, Sir Edward William, (1857-1934), 1st Baronet Composer

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Surname:	Elgar
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Edward William
Gender:	Male
Date:	1857-1934
Places:	Broadheath, Worcestershire
Biography:	ODNB link for Elgar, Sir Edward William (1857-1934) 1st Baronet Composer
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P148135 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P9100 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Edward William Elgar

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	19th-20th cent: annotated proofs, printed scores and miscellaneous papers	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2018/34	See Annual Return 2019
2	corresp and family papers	British Library, Music Collections		NRA 12648 Elgar
3	papers incl musical manuscripts and copies of corresp	British Library, Music Collections		NRA 12104 Elgar
4	1892-1933: diaries and corresp	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections		See Research Libraries Bulletin 4,1996
5	music MSS	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 47900-08, 49973-74, 52525-35, 57984-58068, 64061-63, 69442-44, 69827-45
6	manuscripts	Royal Academy of Music Library		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
7	MS of "The Music Makers"	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections		See Friends of the National Libraries minutes 2/5/95
8	1900-26: letters to publisher William Broome relating to 'May Song' with corrected and annotated proofs	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	1999/102	See Annual Return 1999
9	1904-33: corresp (copies) with De Navarro family	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	BA 8213	NRA 3524 Worcs RO misc
10	1919-24: letters (copies) to Beatrice Harrison	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	BA 8213	NRA 3524 Worcs RO misc
11	1897-1933: letters to Sir Percy Hull	Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre	BA 88	NRA 42699
12	1927-33: letters (10) to Walter Hussey	West Sussex Record Office	Hussey	NRA 42362
13	1901-04: letters from George Hope Johstone, chairman of the Birmingham Music festival (transcripts)	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service	BA 9515	NRA 3524 Worcs RO misc
14	1886-1933: letters to Sir Hubert Leicester	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 60357
15	1930-33: letters (12) to Charles Long	London University: Senate House Library	MS 841
16	1903-07: corresp with Ernst Newman	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	Acc 2000/69	See Annual Return 2000
17	1899-1932: corresp with Percy Pitt	British Library, Music Collections	Eg MS 3303
18	letters to Edward Speyer	Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service		See Annual Report 1992-4 p7
19	1898-1913: letters (24) to Herbert Thompson	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		NRA 19566 Thompson
20	corresp rel to Birmingham University	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	1960-71	NRA 13197 Birmingham Univ
21	1912-1913: letters to Henry Clayton	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	LAdd/6191-6193	See Annual Return 2004
22	1930: music manuscript, "Severn Suite" full orchestral score	British Library, Music Collections	Ms Mus. 1718
23	1923: musical score for the Loughborough Memorial Chimes, corresp from Elgar to WW Starmer	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for		See Annual Return 2012
24	1933-1934: corresp rel to possible burial in Westminster Abbey and a memoral service	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	WAM 61909-17
25	c 1907: autograph sketches of Pomp and Circumstance March no. 6	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2016/41	See Annual Return 2016
26	c1901-1934: letters (7)	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2018/02	See Annual Return 2018
27	c1901-1934: enigma variations, sketches and revisions	British Library, Music Collections	Music Deposit 2018/13

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Elgar, Caroline Alice, (1848-1920), author	spouse		Family