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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, E, A, A. This composer of Salut d’Amour portrayed (15[1])that wife, Alice, (15[1])as “C.A.E” in the first movement of another work. This composer used descending melodic sevenths to portray his publisher Augustus J. Jaeger in the (*) “Nimrod” movement of his fourteen-part Enigma Variations. This composer included the song “Land of Hope and Glory” in a set of marches typically performed at graduation ceremonies. For 10 points, what English composer composed the Pomp and (10[1])Circumstance Marches? ■END■

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