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Edward William Elgar was born on June 2 in Lower Broadheath, a small village near Worcester, England and was the fourth of seven children.
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His father William was a piano tuner by trade and owned a music store where he sold sheet music and musical instruments, as well as being a professional violinist. His mother Ann had a keen interest in the arts and encouraged an interest in music within all of her children.
Elgar spent many hours with his father, and by age 8 he was taking both piano and violin lessons, though he also taught himself to play other instruments. He began composing at the early age of 10 when he composed the music for a play written and performed by the Elgar children.
Elgar attendedthe Littleton House School until the age of 15, all the while studying every music book and organ instruction manual he could get his hands on.
He learned German in the hope that when he finished school he would further his violin studies at Leipzig Conservatory but his father wa
