Elgar - Salut D'Amour ( Love Greeting )

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August 13, 2008

Title : Sir Edward Elgar ,Salut D'Amour ( Love Greeting ) In the Summer of 1888, Edward Elgar and Alice Roberts were heading towards marriage. Edward decided on a holiday with his long-standing fr...

Title : Sir Edward Elgar ,Salut D'Amour ( Love Greeting )

In the Summer of 1888, Edward Elgar and Alice Roberts were heading towards marriage. Edward decided on a holiday with his long-standing friend, Dr Charles Buck of Settle, Yorkshire. As he left Worcester, Alice presented Edward with a poem she had written and entitled Love's Grace. While on holiday in Settle, Edward reciprocated by writing a short piece of music for her, which he called Liebesgruss (Love's Greeting). The work carried the dedication "To Carice", a contraction of his future wife's forenames Caroline Alice with which they subsequently christened their daughter. On his return from Settle, Elgar presented the work to his wife and proposed to her. They married at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington, London in May the following year.

Towards the end of 1888, Edward submitted three arrangements of the work - for solo piano, for violin and piano, and an orchestral arrangement - to the music publishing firm of Schott who agreed to buy the work outright for a fee of two guineas. At first, the work sold slowly. Apparently with Elgar's approval, Schott's retitled the work Salut d'Amour and gave the composer's name as Ed. Elgar, believing that the French title and a less obviously English composer would help the work gain wider international approval. It did, much to the publisher's satisfaction but with no financial benefit to Elgar.

It is easy to dismiss Salut d'Amour as an insignificant trifle, salon music not deserving a wider audience. However, for the work to establish itself so forcefully in what was a fiercely competitive field says much for its charm and quality. And, as Elgar's first published work, it has a historical value, containing pointers to the skills that Elgar was to develop and display in his later works.

Elgar subsequently composed a companion piece, Mot d'Amour (Liebesahnung or Love's Word). Although in many ways structurally and dramatically superior to the earlier work, it failed to capture the public affection of its predecessor and is rarely heard today.

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I have playlists by year 1950-1999 already.
So now I'm thinking farther out and just put this on my new 1888 top hits playlist!
Shared to me by my wonderful new friend Nancy in Emonton, Alberta

scarletteyes (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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so touching
so gentle
so pure
and so sweet

PinkYachi (3 weeks ago) Show Hide

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This is so beautiful a song!
I've never heard love being expressed so well in music before. <3

pennylane288 (4 weeks ago) Show Hide

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Does anyone know where I can get the sheet music to this with both parts?

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sometimes i wonder if people today can love the way elgar did. He composed this for his wife and in truth, it sounds fleeting and very passionate, like first love, but it has the overtone of TRUE love, of a love which will last the years. Elegant, simple, and very frivolous but the passion put in its performance makes it sound eternal. Does this love exist anymore? It's so hard to find anything so beautiful.

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this song makes me inspired of all my problems in life..

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I love love love ELGAR!! :D

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sounds so simple yet so strong and full of emotion... i am amazed.
i love elgar for this

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World renowned Korean violinist Kyung Wha Chung plays this recording.

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So romantic.........a floating feeling......

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