Autographs of Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ˈɛlɡɑːr/ ⓘ; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British Army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory.
In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras. Elgar's music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death. It began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, but the music continues to be played more in Britain than elsewhere.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Edward Elgar (EDWARD ELGAR Superb Autograph Musical Quote LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY Very Rare) was sold in April 2025 for £5,596.72 while the cheapest item (EDWARD ELGAR Signed Letter - Musician / English Composer) found a new owner for £0.99 in September 2014. The month with the most items sold (3) was March 2018 with an average selling price of £825.00 for an autographed item of Edward Elgar. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with £2,915.72 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was September 2014. In average, an autographed item from Edward Elgar is worth £264.86.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	ANTHONY PAYNE BRITISH Music COMPOSER AUTOGRAPH Edward Elgar Symphony No3 Book	£10.00
	Caroline Alice Elgar - writes on behalf of - EDWARD ELGAR - Autograph Letter	£24.99
	Caroline Elgar - Edward Elgar's wife - Autograph Letter to music publisher 1904	£24.99
	Early 20thC Musical Score The Reveille signed by Edward Elgar. Autographed	£72.00
	EDWARD ELGAR - English Composer - Autograph Letter - Rome - 1908	£535.00
	Edward Elgar Autograph English Composer Signed Undated	£234.72
	Edward Elgar Hand Signed Symphony No. 2 Op. 63 Autograph Signed by 9 Conductors	£399.99
	EDWARD ELGAR Superb Autograph Musical Quote LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY Very Rare	£5,596.72
	Edward Elgar, Henry Wood & more: Birmingham Festival 1903 Autograph Album	£370.00
	Legendary violinist Yenhudi Menuhin signed Edward Elgar FDC - UACC DEALER	£150.00
	Legendary violinist Yenhudi Menuhin signed Edward Elgar FDC - UACC DEALER	£95.00
	Rare Sir Edward Elgar (1854-1937) Signed Handwritten Letter 1908 Birmingham	£899.99
	Sir Edward Elgar Autograph - Classical Composer	£113.00
	Sir Edward Elgar Autograph, With Ethel Smyth And W.H. Reed - Classical Composer	£192.00
	SIR EDWARD ELGAR Portrait + GERONTIUS quote + autograph 1900s POSTCARD 15/7	£10.50