Mina

Composer: ELGAR, Sir Edward
  • Elgar composed Mina for small orchestra in 1932. It premiered at the EMI recording studio on Feb. 8, 29134 in a recording session.1
  • Mina was Elgar’s last completed work.2
  • Mina was the name of Elgar’s Cairn terrier. He had several dogs during the last fourteen years of his life, after his wife’s death (she hadn’t been a dog person). The dogs’ names were Mina, Marco and Meg.3
    • Elgar loved his dogs. On his 70th birthday, after conducting a BBC concert, he closed the concert by saying through the microphone, “Good night everybody. Good night, Marco.”4

Sources

  1. Diana McVeagh, “Elgar, Sir Edward,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 18, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000008709.
  2. “Elgar – His Music: Other Music for Small Orchestra,” Elgar Society, accessed September 24, 2019, http://www.elgar.org/3smalls.htm.
  3. “The Firs – Edward Elgar and His Dogs,” The National Trust, accessed September 24, 2019, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-firs/features/edward-elgar-and-his-dogs.
  4. Ibid.

Cut IDs

18419