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unusual facts about Enigma Variations



2ZY

This enabled 2ZY to start a variety of regular live music broadcasts and this meant that a number of works by British composers, were given their first radio airing by the 2ZY Orchestra, including Elgar's Enigma Variations, Holst's The Planets and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

Furious Angels

The classical intro to "Clubbed to Death" is taken directly from the main theme of Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations".

Julius Buths

He conducted the continental European premieres of both the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius.


see also

Deanne Bergsma

She created the role of Lady Mary Lygon in Ashton's Enigma Variations (1968) and a principal part in Tetley's Field Figures (1970).

George Sinclair

George Robertson Sinclair, cathedral organist and inspiration of one of Elgar's Enigma Variations