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Edward William Elgar (June 2, - February 23, ), Englishcomposer, was born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.

Surrounded by sheet music and instruments in his father's shop in Worcester's High Street, the young Elgar became self-taught in music. On warm summer's days, he would take manuscripts into the countryside to study them. Thus began for him a strong association between music and nature.

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As he was later to say, "There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require."

Having left school at the age of 15, he began work for a local solicitor, but after a year, embarked on a musical career, conducting piano and violin lessons.

At 22, he took up the post of bandmaster at the Worcester and County Lunatic Asylum, a couple of miles to the southwest of Worcester. In many ways, his years as a young Worcestershire violinist w