Enigma Variations
Selection, arranged for organ (arr. E. Hofmann) op. 36
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Composer
Edward Elgar
| 1857-1934Edward Elgar was born on 2 June 1857 in Broadheath near Worcester. As a child he learnt to play the piano and violin with his father William Henry and local music teachers. As a composer he was self-taught, but he only became really well-known and successful with his compositions in the 1890s. He achieved his first notable successes with his first cantatas The Black Knight (1893) and King Olaf (1896), and his oratorio The Light of Life (1896). But his ultimate breakthrough as a composer came in 1899 with the Enigma Variations op. 36, and a year later with his major work, the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius.
Elgar is regarded as an important representative of late Romanticism in music, and was one of the few British composers after Purcell to achieve international recognition.
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Arranger
Eberhard Hofmann
| 1933
Reviews
... Diese Ausgabe stellt eine Bereicherung sowohl für das gottesdienstliche als auch für das konzertante Spiel dar und ist nicht nur Liebhabern englischer Orgelmusik zu empfehlen.
Achim Seip, Ars Organi, 03/2020
... Es ist eine Bereicherung der Orgelliteratur, dass es die Enigma-Variationen von E. Elgar nun in ihrer gesamten Form in Orgelbearbeitung von Eberhard Hofmann gibt.
Zuzana Ferjencikova, singende kirche, 3/2019
... Die Arrangements dieser wunderbaren, stimmungsvollen Variationen sind von mittlerem Schwierigkeitsgrad und eignen sich gleichermaßen für Gottesdienst und Konzert. (jg)
Kirchenmusikalische Mitteilungen der Erzdiözese Freiburg, Mai 2019
... Gewiss eine Bereicherung vor allem für das Konzert. (ab)
Kirchenmusik im Bistum Limburg, 1/ 2019
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