August Jaeger
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August Johannes Jaeger was a German-born British music publisher, who developed a close friendship with the English composer Edward Elgar. He offered advice and help to Elgar and is immortalised in th
Jaeger in his later years
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a British composer and conductor. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleri
August Jaeger
…movements of Beethoven (Nimrod was a Biblical hunter, a pun on the German word for hunter, Jäger). Jaeger championed the work of the young composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, claiming to Elgar that Coleridge-Taylor was "a genius". In 1898 Jaeger married Isabella Donkersley (1864–1938) of Magdale, Honley near Holmfirth in…
Coleridge-Taylor in 1905
Coleridge-Taylor c. 1893
Christmas greeting card displaying the Coleridge-Taylor family, 1912
Blue Plaque for Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Dagnell Park, Selhurst geograph.org.uk 1466227