| 1888 |
Salut d'amour |
| 1890 |
Froissart |
| 1892 |
Serenade for Strings |
| 1893 |
The Black Knight |
| 1894 |
The Snow Fly, Singing Bird |
| 1895 |
Organ Sonata No.1 |
| 1896 |
From the Bavarian Highlands The Light of Life (Lux Christi) King Olaf |
| 1987 |
Imperial March The Banner of St. George Chanson de Nuit |
| 1898 |
Caractacus |
| 1899 |
Sea Pictures Chanson de Matin Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma' Variations) |
| 1900 |
The Dream of Gerontius |
| 1901 |
Pomp and Circumstance March Nos.1 and 2 Cockaigne ('In London Town') |
| 1902 |
Coronation Ode |
| 1903 |
The Apostles |
| 1904 |
Pomp and Circumstance March No.3 In the South ('Alassio') |
| 1905 |
Introduction and Allegro for Strings |
| 1906 |
The Kingdom |
| 1907 |
Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 Wand of Youth Suit No.1 |
| 1908 |
Symphony No.1 Wand of Youth Suite No.2 |
| 1910 |
Violin Concerto |
| 1911 |
Symphony No.2 Coronation March |
| 1912 |
Crown of India Great is the Lord (Psalm 48) The Music Makers |
| 1913 |
Falstaff |
| 1914 |
Sospiri Give unto the Lord (Psalm 29) Carillon |
| 1915 |
Polonia The Starlight Express Une Voix dans le Desert |
| 1916 |
Le Drapeau Belge The Spirit of England |
| 1917 |
The Fringes of the Fleet The Sanguine Fan |
| 1918 |
Violin Sonata String Quartet |
| 1919 |
Piano Quintet Cello Concerto |
| 1924 |
Empire March |
| 1930 |
Severn Suite for brass band Pomp and Circumstance March No.5 |
| 1931 |
Nursery Suite |
Land of Hope and Glory
In 1901, Elgar had composed his first Pomp and Circumstance March. This had been a great success and the Prince of Wales, soon to become King Edward VII, had told Elgar how much he liked it. When Queen Victoria died (also in 1901), Elgar was asked to compose some special music for the crowning ceremony of the new King Edward and Queen Alexandra. Elgar asked the writer A.C. Benson to put words to the March that the King had liked, and this new piece became what we know today as Land of Hope and Glory.
Salut d’amour
Just before he became engaged to Alice, Elgar went on holiday to Yorkshire with an old friend, Dr. Charles Buck. As he was leaving Worcester, Alice gave Elgar a poem she had written called ‘Love’s Grace’ so, while in Yorkshire, Elgar composed a short piece of music for her called ‘Love’s Greeting’. He managed to sell the piece to a music publisher who decided a French title would make the music more popular, and the piece became Salut d’amour, the name we all know it by.
Caractacus – A Local Masterpiece
In 1897 Elgar’s mother Ann pointed to the grand hillfort called British Camp that is part of the Malvern Hills, and asked Edward if something could be written about it. Elgar wrote the cantata Caractacus, based on the life of a Celtic king who fought against the Roman invasion. When Elgar was seriously ill in later life, it was the ‘Woodland Interlude’ from this local work that he wished to hear.
Wand of Youth
When musical ideas came to him, Elgar would jot these down in scrap books. Even at the height of his fame, he retained fond memories of his childhood and looked back into his scrapbooks to put together two collections of tunes he had used for the plays he had performed as a young boy with his brothers and sisters. He called these his Wand of Youth Suites. The names of the tunes show their childhood origins: Fairies and Giants; Moths and Butterflies; The Little Bells; Fountain Dance; The Tame Bears and Wild Bears.
