1. ^Oswin Grainger was an older musical friend, reluctantly a grocer by trade
2. ^Dr. Charles Lee Williams was former organist of Gloucester Cathedral
3. ^^1 2 Hubert Leicester was a lifelong friend of Elgar's, played flute in the early wind quintets (his brother William played clarinet), and was always a keen musician; the Leicester family lived at No. 6 Worcester High Street, a few doors away from the Elgar music shop. Hubert Leicester wrote a book Forgotten Worcester with a preface by Elgar, and became Mayor of Worcester (Kennedy p.263)
4. ^Elgar's boyhood employer, the solicitor William Allen (Moore, p.118)
5. ^Agnes Leicester was the wife of Elgar's lifelong friend Hubert Leicester – they were married three years before Edward Elgar and Alice
6. ^A friend of Elgar's, the Very Rev. Canon Charles Vincent Dolman, O.S.B. was the priest of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Broad Street, Hereford
7. ^¹ Op. 3 was first assigned to Allegretto on G.E.D.G.E., then finally to Cantique
8. ^Elgar met 'Miss E. E.' before he was married, whilst on holiday in Scotland
9. ^Hilda Fitton was sister of Isabel Fitton – 'Ysobel' (Variation VI) of the Enigma Variations
10. ^Frank Webb was a Worcester furniture dealer, and he and his sisters were some of Elgar's earliest violin pupils in Worcester, and a member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society. His son Alan Webb was curator of the Elgar Birthplace in the 1960s(Kennedy, p.19)
11. ^J. F. Porte, in his critical book Sir Edward Elgar, asserts that Elgar wrote two songs in his Op. 5, but does not name either: "The two numbers comprising Opus 5 are to be commended to those who would see how a great composer commenced his contributions to the world of song."
12. ^¹ Frederick G. Pedley was (according to the 1881 census) a warehouseman from Worcester, two years older than Elgar. He was an amateur singer, and gave the first performance of "A Soldier's Song" at a Worcester Glee Club meeting in 1884
13. ^Charles Flavell Hayward (1863–1906) was born in Wolverhampton, England into a show-business family. He was an actor, poet, violinist, conductor, composer and arranger of music. He was a friend of Elgar's and played at the same desk in the violins. His father Henry Hayward was a violinist known as the "English Paganini". The family emigrated to New Zealand where he, his brothers, their wives and other family (known as "The Brescian Family") made their living in the theatre, which included the novelty of a moving picture show or bioscope as it was called. He died in Adelaide, Australia. His most well-known song (he wrote the lyrics and the music) is called "Come back to me" which was sung by his sister Florence Hayward.
14. ^Young has "Op. 6, WIND QUINTETS: any of the above, but not specified by E.", referring to the works in the sets here numbered only for convenience "Op. 6.1" to "Op. 6.6" to keep them together (Young, p. 408)
15. ^Elgar's spelling. More correctly "Madame Tussaud's"
16. ^Frank Exton was the second flautist in the quintet
17. ^William Leicester, Hubert's brother, was the clarinettist in the quintet
18. ^Frank Elgar, Edward's brother, was the oboist in the quintet
19. ^The Gavotte named after Alphonsa Leicester, who was the sister of Elgar's friends William and Hubert Leicester
20. ^Re-copied for The Spanish Lady
21. ^William Cole Stockley was conductor of his own orchestra in Birmingham, in 1882 conductor of the Birmingham Festival Choral Society and Chorus Master to the Birmingham Festival (Moore p. 95)
22. ^Percy Fletcher identifies this as possibly that of 1888
23. ^^1 2 3 Lady Mary Lygon (pronounced "Liggon"), commemorated in the Romanza "***" of the Enigma Variations, was sister of Earl Beauchamp. She promoted, among others similar, the Madresfield Musical Competition in 1903. She became Lady Mary Trefusis on marrying Lt.-Col. Henry Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis in 1905
24. ^Dyke Acland was a bank manager and amateur cellist
25. ^Fred Ward was one of Elgar's pupils, and Bizarrerie was written for him, but (unlike La Capricieuse) not dedicated to him
26. ^Julia Raikes, wife of William Raikes, cousin of his wife Alice. The Raikes were the only members of her family to attend Elgar's wedding, and lent the Elgars their house in Upper Norwood for a few weeks in 1889
27. ^Dr. Frank Ehrke of the Manor House, Kempsey was 1st violin in the Worcestershire Philharmonic Society Orchestra
28. ^Fred Ward was one of Elgar's pupils
29. ^Diana McVeagh gives this as Op.18 No.3
30. ^Rev. J. Hampton, M.A., Warden of St. Michael's College, Tenbury (Kennedy, p.280)
31. ^The Rev. Walter H. Whinfield was the youngest son of Edward Whinfield, head of an organ-building firm and vice-president of the Worcester Musical Society, who gave musical evenings at his large house 'Severn Grange' near Claines, where the young Edward Elgar began to meet a wide range of musicians, some of whom were to become lifelong friends (Moore, p. 89)
32. ^Paul Kilburn was the son of conductor Nicholas Kilburn
33. ^^1 2 May Grafton was Elgar's niece, daughter of William Grafton and Elgar's sister Pollie
34. ^^1 2 Mrs E. B. Fitton was a Malvern pianist and mother of Hilda and Isabel Fitton ('Ysobel' of the Enigma Variations)
35. ^In August 1893 the Elgars spent two weeks in Garmisch at the guest-house of an English family, the Bethells, who they had met the year before (Moore, p.175)
36. ^¹ Dr. Charles Swinnerton Heap was, in 1896, the leading choral conductor in the Midlands
37. ^Sketches "elaborated" by Anthony Payne
38. ^Mrs. Edward Speyer was Antonia Kufferath, the Belgian-born soprano, daughter of Alice Elgar's old piano teacher Ferdinand Kufferath and wife of Elgar's friend the wealthy banker Edward Speyer. 'Ridgehurst' was their home at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Not to be confused with Sir Edgar Speyer and Lady Speyer (the latter a professional violinist Leonora von Stosch)
39. ^Concert Allegro sometimes still shown in references as "Op. 41"
40. ^Lady Maud Warrender (1870–1945) was the youngest daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbury and married Sir George Warrender. She was a singer and patron of music – she organised the first performance of the Coronation Ode in 1903 – and a personal friend of Elgar and his wife
41. ^Arthur Leslie Salmon (born 1865), lover of literature, poet, music critic and author of British travel guides
42. ^Canon Charles Vincent Gorton was chairman of the Morecambe Festival, and assisted Elgar with the words of The Apostles
43. ^Julia Worthington was an American, a friend of Prof. Sanford, whom he met in the U. S. A., and who later saw him in England. The enigmatic dots in the Spanish quotation inscribed on Elgar's Violin Concerto are said to refer to her. He called her "Windflower".
44. ^Dr. William McNaught, musical editor and choral conductor, worked for the publishers Novello
45. ^Henry Embleton was the wealthy and enthusiastic president of the Leeds Choral Union who encouraged Elgar in his choral music (Moore, p.215)
46. ^Alfred Henry Littleton was chairman of the publishers Novello. At then time that he wrote the song, Elgar and his wife were staying at the villa of his friend Julia Worthington at Careggi near Florence when they were visited by Littleton, whose wife had just died
47. ^Kennedy, p.289
48. ^'Elegy' was premiered at a Memorial Concert in the Mansion House on 13 July 1901. In memoriam Rev. R. H. Haddon, late Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
49. ^Of the songs in the planned Op. 59, nos. 1, 2 and 4 were never published, and not even their titles are known
50. ^^1 2 3 "Pietro d'Alba" (alias "Peter Rabbit") was Elgar's pseudonym for himself
51. ^Percy M. Young (in his Elgar O. M.) says this is "Probably fictitious."
52. ^Edwin James was principal bassoonist and chairman of the London Symphony Orchestra (Moore, p.563)
53. ^Nicholas Kilburn
54. ^Frances Smart was a neighbour of the Elgars at 'Forli' before the turn of the century (Moore, p.659)
55. ^William Mann Dyson was a singing teacher who sang in the Worcester Glee Club (Moore, p. 695 and 1901 England Census, Worcester)
56. ^^1 2 Vasily Ivanovich Maikov (1728—1778), Russian poet and dramatist. See ru: Майков, Василий Иванович
57. ^Frances Colvin, wife of Sir Sidney Colvin
58. ^Ballet based on a fan designed by Charles Conder
59. ^The violinist Maria Joshua said she was 'overwhelmed' by Elgar's offer of dedication, but was ill and would write later to explain. She never wrote, and died a week later. The dedication was accepted later by her daughter (Moore, p. 725)
60. ^The leader was Adolph Brodsky (nearly 70 at the time and principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music) and the others Hugo Becker, Hans Sitt, and Julius Klengel
61. ^Young Elgar O.M.
62. ^The Smoking Cantata was probably never intended to be performed and was given the jocular opus number of 1001. Its duration is less than a minute
63. ^{{cite news|title=Unknown Elgar is just a puff of smoke|publisher=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,1104220,00.html|accessdate=2006-09-15 | location=London | first=David | last=Ward | date=2003-12-11}}
64. ^On her birthday
65. ^McVeagh, p. 3
66. ^Elgar himself
67. ^Probably Oswin Grainger, an older musical friend, reluctantly a grocer by trade
68. ^Elgar wrote on the manuscript: "Exercise for the 3rd finger – (The chords not to be played, the 1st, 2nd & 4th fingers remain fixed in the positions ...)." Finally: "Written for my own use in 1877. Copied for Mr. Jascha Heifetz at his request, November 1920. Edward Elgar"
69. ^The composer's brother Frank Elgar, who played the oboe
70. ^The England 1881 census shows that Karl Bammert was a German watchmaker aged 21, a boarder at the Elgar family house No. 10 High Street Worcester – he was probably the violinist. Frank Elgar and two sisters Lucy and 'Dot' were there, with their parents
71. ^Leicester private collection
72. ^^1 2 3 Frank and Helen Weaver were among the children of William Weaver, a shoe merchant whose shop was opposite the Elgar's at No. 84 Worcester High Street. Frank Weaver also became a shoemaker, and he played the double bass; Elgar wrote the Duett for trombone and double bass as a wedding present to him on 1 August 1887, when he married Fannie Jones. Helen Weaver was 'Nelly' of the Harmony Music; in 1883 Helen and Elgar were engaged to be married, but the engagement was broken off the next year.(Moore, p. 67, and England censuses 1871, 1881)
73. ^¹ Miss J. Holloway was the pianist at the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum
74. ^Miss J. Holloway was the pianist at the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum. Moore, p.87
75. ^Elgar's brother Frank
76. ^The same tune as "Richard of Taunton Dene", a traditional Somersetshire song
77. ^photograph of the MS in Elgar, O.M. by Percy Young, p.128
78. ^G. F. Blackbourne was the pseudonym of V. Beraud
79. ^From Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection,
80. ^Percy Fletcher identifies this as possibly the trio mentioned in a letter to Dr. Buck, 1887
81. ^Ludwig Wüllner (1858-1938) was the German tenor (and actor) who deeply impressed Elgar with his performance as Gerontius at Düsseldorf in 1901
82. ^Elgar used to go to the Malvern Wells house of The Rev. William Wilberforce Gedge, Headmaster of Wells House School, every week to give violin lessons to his daughters (Moore, p. 72)
83. ^According to Percy Young (in Elgar O. M.) Elgar pencilled in a note on the MS that J. H. Meredith was an honorary member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society
84. ^According to Percy Young (in Elgar O. M.) Mrs. Marshall and her daughter were friends of Lady Elgar
85. ^Simon Wastell (1560–1635), headmaster of the Free School at Northampton
86. ^Ellen Burroughs was the pseudonym of the American poet Sophie Jewett (1861–1909)
87. ^Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar, p.281
88. ^Moore, Edward Elgar: A Creative Life, p. 168
89. ^¹ Percy M. Young "Elgar O.M.", footnote p.70
90. ^Moore (A Creative Life, p.177) notes (from the Chappell archives) that permission to use the poem by 'Barry Pain' was obtained on 3 March
91. ^from 'Historic Worcestershire' by W. Scott Brassington
92. ^¹ Max Laistner (1853–1917) was a German musician, a concert pianist and director of the Max Laistner Choir. He made piano transcriptions of the classics, including an "Etude de Concert" after Chopin's Valse in D-flat "Minute Waltz"
93. ^Alice Chambers Bunten, scholar, author and lyricist for many songs, well known for her Life of Alice Barnham, Wife of Sir Francis Bacon, London: Oliphants Ltd. 1928
94. ^Frank H. Fortey (born in India 1876) was a translator of Polish literature. His main work was the poems of Mickiewicz. He lived in King's Norton, Worcester
95. ^Clifton Bingham (1859–1913) was an English author of poems and children's books, many of them illustrated by Louis Wain.
96. ^R. G. H. Howson was a bank manager who conducted choirs at the Morecambe festivals (Kennedy, p.166)
97. ^Elgar's sister Helen Agnes Elgar, known as 'Dot', was in a convent)
98. ^Discovering that Italian clients of a hairdresser at Capri diverted themselves with music while waiting for their turn, Elgar composed this piece for their general benefit
99. ^Biography and hymns of Thomas Toke Lynch (1818–1871)
100. ^At the time he wrote the lyrics, William de Courcy Stretton was a 46-year old wealthy retired Captain of the Royal Artillery, living in Salcombe, Devon. He was the son of Col. Severus William Lynam Stretton (1793–1884) of Nottingham who had served in both Peninsular Wars, and the Hon. Catherine Adela de Courcy, youngest daughter of the 28th Lord Kinsale, premier baron of Ireland
101. ^Anthony Goetz was the son of Ludovic Goetz and Muriel Foster, a favourite singer and personal friend of Elgar’s
102. ^Winifred Stephens was sister of the singer Muriel Foster, and her husband Jeffrey Stephens worked for the Gramophone Company which made the first recording of Elgar's music, including Carissima
103. ^John Brownlie, D.D. (1857–1925) Scottish hymnologist – photo and biography
104. ^^1 2 Elgar made four visits to the USA: the last in 1911. He wrote three songs: "The Merry-go-round" for (children's) voices in unison with piano accompaniment; "The Brook" a simple two-part song with piano accompaniment; and "Windlass Song" for four-part voices (SATB) unaccompanied. The songs were published by Silver, Burdett & Co. of New York City in "The Progressive Music Series", books Two (1914), Three (1915) and Four (1915) respectively. All three songs are short: "The Merry-go-round" 13 bars with two verses – the tune of this is simple and the notation unusually large, indicating that this was written for young children; "The Brook" 13 bars with three verses; and "Windlass Song" 14 bars with four verses. Elgar signed a schedule excluding their publication in any form apart from that series, and specifically not to be published outside the USA, though in 1921 Elgar gave permission for them to be published in the Canadian edition of that series. (Information provided on 1 April 1980 by Elsie Plant, Senior Editor Music Publications, Silver Burdett Company, 250 James Street, Morristown, NJ)
105. ^Florence C. Fox was an American writer of books and poems, and lyricist of songs for children. Her children's books include "Fox's Indian Primer" about American Indians and how they lived.
106. ^Richard Marden was a pseudonym of the composer
107. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/feb/14/edgar-elgar-manuscript-dusty-folder |title=Edward Elgar manuscript found in dusty folder |work=The Guardian |date=14 February 2012 |accessdate=14 February 2012}}
108. ^According to the composer's markings in the MS (Young, p. 407)
109. ^The Civic Fanfare was written for the mayoral procession at the opening of the Hereford Festival on 4 September 1927. The orchestration includes fanfares for the orchestral brass accompanied by wind and percussion; but the only strings which take part are violas, celli and double basses. The work was written to precede a performance of Elgar's transcription of 'God Save the King' and is ended by a side-drum roll which leads directly into the National Anthem, when the violins join the full orchestra and choir in a triumphant entry.
110. ^¹ {{cite journal |journal=The Elgar Society Journal |last=Kay |first=Robert |title=Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music |volume=17 |issue=3 |date=December 2011 |pages=13–14 |url=http://elgar.org/elgarsoc/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vol.-17-No.-3-December-2011-Compressed.pdf |accessdate=19 June 2016}}
111. ^Rev. Harcourt B. S. Fowler of Elmley Castle
112. ^Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode was written with accompaniment for orchestra, but was performed by a military band, and all parts have been lost
113. ^^1 2 Stephen Moore was a young Worcester schoolmaster, and the three songs were written for him to complete a contract with publishers Keith Prowse
114. ^Mina was Elgar's Cairn terrier