Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I know most of Elgar's orchestral music and can't think of any other work
>that sounds so much like Tchaikovsky.  I wondered whether it was done
>consciously.  Does anyone know more about The Wand of Youth?

Like Britten's Simple Symphony TWOY was written in mid-life but based upon
melodies written in his youth.  Elgar himself said, in regard to "Of Moths
and Butterflies", "I do not remember the time when it was not written in
some form or other."

Deryk Barker
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