Edward Elgar - Salut d'Amour (Love's Greeting) - Edward Elgar Эдуард Элгар Салют Любви

Edward Elgar- Salut d&(Love&Greeting) Weihnachtskonzert EUROPA Zentrum Yuliya Lebedenko - Violin, Voice Alexander Polyakov - Piano Minsk. Belarus 25.12.2014 Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" (&Greeting&because of Miss Roberts’ fluency in German. When he returned home to London on 22 September from a holiday at the house of his friend Dr. Charles Buck, in Settle, he presented it to her as an engagement present. Alice, for her part, offered him a poem called "The Wind at Dawn" which she had written years before and which he soon set to music. The dedication was in French: "à Carice". "Carice" was a combination of his wife&names Caroline Alice, and was the name to be given to their daughter born two years later. It was not published by Schott & Co. until a year later, and the first editions were for violin and piano, piano solo, cello and piano, and for small orchestra. Few copies were sold until Schott changed the title to "Salut d’Amour" with Liebesgruss as a sub-title, and the composer’s name as &Elgar&The French title, Elgar realised, would help the work to be sold not only in France but in other European countries: Schott was a German publisher, with offices in Mainz, London, Paris and Brussels. "Salut d&is one of Elgar&best-known works and has inspired numerous arrangements for widely varying instrumental combinations. It was even arranged as a song "Woo...