elgar

Not a huge Elgar fan but Nimrod and many of his pieces are very evocative.

CS Lewis [2], Elgar [3] and Evelyn Waugh [4] were also inspired by the Malverns.

My 10 yr old daughter’s violin performance of the Elgar Salut d’Amour, same.

And then, two-thirds of way into the article: > Most Elgar scholars I contacted said they have stopped responding to Padgett’s persistent inquiries.

The game is called Proximity[1], it's a simple turn-based game I initially released 18 years ago that I've been working on sequels off and on since) and I was thinking I could call the site 'Proximity Variations', kind of like the composer Elgar did 'Enigma Variations' (name might be a bit pretentious, but it was the inspiration for the idea).

The main reason I wasn't interested in Elgar or alleged Bach cryptograms was I suspected artists before the 20th century were too given to allegory and coincidence that was more like a crossword with contextual clues than an actual cryptogram.

In Britain, "Nimrod" may be best known as the title of a very popular piece of orchestral music (from Elgar's Enigma Variations).

Pi actually reminds me a bit of "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma variations.

Whoa, thanks to your comment, which helpfully illustrates some of the "poetic" aspects of the digits' decimal arrangement, I became instantly convinced the digits of pi are the theme on which Elgar wrote his "Enigma" Variations.

Add in Elgar's apparent appreciation of playing jokes on people, and you have what seems like the full story here.

Elgar’s Cello Concerto in C Minor seems to be a favourite right now.

While I haven't attempted Elgar's work, some few years ago I started running down the rabbit hole of musical cryptograms.