Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47

Composer: ELGAR, Sir Edward
  • Elgar completed this piece in 1905. His sketches for the work date as far back as 1901.1
  • Elgar released this work in versions for string quartet and for string orchestra.2
  • Elgar conducted London Symphony Orchestra3 in the orchestral version’s premiere at Queen’s Hall in London on March 8, 1905.4
  • Elgar dedicated this piece to S.S. Sanford, a professor at Yale. Elgar visited Yale in 1905 to accept an honorary doctorate8 (on which occasion the Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 march was played, launching an American tradition associating the piece with academic ceremonies).5

Sources

  1. Diana McVeagh, “Elgar, Sir Edward,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 30, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000008709.
  2. Ibid.
  3. “Introduction and Allegro for Strings (Elgar, Edward),” IMSLP, accessed September 30, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Introduction_and_Allegro%2C_Op.47_(Elgar%2C_Edward).
  4.  McVeagh, “Elgar, Sir Edward,” Grove Music Online.
  5. McVeagh, “Elgar, Sir Edward,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

40884 41042 41754