Question

In a piece this composer wrote as an engagement present for his wife, a piano accompanies a violin playing (read slowly) G-sharp, B, G-sharp, F-sharp, E, D-sharp, (-5[2])E, (15[1]-5[1])A, A. This composer of Salut (10[1])d’Amour portrayed (15[2])that wife, Alice, (15[2]-5[1])as “C.A.E” in (-5[1])the first movement (10[1])of another work. This composer used descending melodic (15[1])sevenths to (15[1])portray his publisher Augustus J. Jaeger in the (*) “Nimrod” movement (10[2])of his fourteen-part Enigma (10[2])Variations. This composer included (10[2])the song (10[1])“Land of Hope and Glory” in a set of (10[1])marches typically performed (10[1])at graduation ceremonies. For (10[1])10 points, what English composer composed the Pomp and (10[1])Circumstance (10[1]0[2])Marches? ■END■

ANSWER: Edward Elgar [or Sir Edward William Elgar]
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