When Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations each section was headed with the initials of friends, with the final variation, No. When Debussy wrote his Préludes, he gave them titles after he had written them. So perhaps the theme is simply (or profoundly) one about friendship. In fact, the work was dedicated “…to my friends pictured within”. The Enigma Variations are sketches of friends. Dedicated “…to my friends pictured within” In 2010 Charles and Matthew Santa proposed the theory that the enigma was based on pi. It’s also been suggested that the theme is Shakespeare’s 66th sonnet.
In his book on Elgar, Ian Parrott suggests the theme has a biblical source.
After all, wasn’t it Sherlock Holmes who said that the best place to put something where you don’t want someone to see it is right in front of their eyes? Or perhaps, the clue, the theme, isn’t musical at all. It may be that the answer to the riddle is staring at us in the face. Ed Newton-Rex, a composer and alumnus of the Choir of King’s College Cambridge, is confident that it is Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.Īnd so the theme has been inverted, reversed, and carved up in all manner of form, pulled apart, dissected, put back together again. So the guessing continued: the minor version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star God Save The Queen Martin Luther’s hymn tune Ein Feste Burg Home, Sweet Home Rule Britannia the theme of the slow movement of Beethoven’s ‘Pathétique’ Sonata Pop Goes The Weasel and as recently as May 2019 it was announced that the mystery had been solved. Listen to Elgar’s Enigma Variations on Apple Music and Spotify and scroll down to discover the mystery behind the masterpiece. What happens? It has another go at that forbidden thing. Like telling a naughty child not to do something. Well, there’s nothing like telling your audience that there’s a secret, it’s dark, it’s not entirely clear and it “must be left unguessed”, to get them to do precisely the opposite – try and solve the mystery. And more, “The Enigma I will not explain – its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed”. Listening to it you hear syncopations which almost seem to suggest that, to quote the composer, “over the whole set another and larger theme ‘goes’, but is not played …so, the principal Theme never appears”. And the theme was not a straightforward theme in itself. Why ‘Enigma’? Because Elgar was secretive about the work’s theme. Elgar composed his Enigma Variations between October 1898 and February 1899 and the work premiered in London on 19 June 1899. And it came relatively late in life, when the composer was in his early forties. Send us feedback about these examples.It was Elgar’s Enigma Variations (or Variations On An Original Theme to use its original title) that catapulted Elgar to international renown. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'conundrum.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Navigating a ‘Weird’ Landscape Requires Different Thinking The CFO.com survey findings underscore the crossroads conundrum: Most companies need to hire workers for vital roles, but their leaders feel compelled to take a wait-and-see approach to recruiting new talent. 2023 Getting better outcomes from our workplaces depends on how seriously organizations approach the current productivity conundrum. 2023 This presents policy makers with a conundrum. 2023 And of course there is the charging station conundrum: Can enough of them be built and kept functional to help car buyers overcome range anxiety? - Timothy Puko, Washington Post, 15 Apr. Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023 But unlike with other factors, such as the mysterious chain restaurant conundrum, additional analysis shows this is probably just another expression of the urban-rural density divide that underlies so many of the nation’s cultural and political cleavages. Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023 Deciding where exactly to take a player like Richardson in the draft is the new conundrum.
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