Annotation, borrowed from Elgar and Mendelssohn and Goethe. The 13th variation of Edward Elgar’s 1899 “Enigma Variations” quotes from Felix Mendelssohn’s 1828 concert overture “Meerestille und glückliche Fahrt,” that is, calm sea and prosperous voyage, which comments on the lines of two poems written by Goethe in 1795. Elgar was discriminated against because he was a…![]()
