![]() ![]() ![]() And more, “The Enigma I will not explain – its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed”. Listening to it you hear syncopations which almost seem to suggest that, to quote the composer, “over the whole set another and larger theme ‘goes’, but is not played …so, the principal Theme never appears”. And the theme was not a straightforward theme in itself. ![]() Why ‘Enigma’? Because Elgar was secretive about the work’s theme. Elgar composed his Enigma Variations between October 1898 and February 1899 and the work premiered in London on 19 June 1899. And it came relatively late in life, when the composer was in his early forties. It was Elgar’s Enigma Variations (or Variations On An Original Theme to use its original title) that catapulted Elgar to international renown. ![]()
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