Edward Elgar was an English composer whose 'Enigma Variations', Cello Concerto, and two symphonies made him the defining voice of late-Victorian English music.
The 'Enigma Variations' (1899) — fourteen character portraits of Elgar's friends with an undisclosed theme running throughout — is the structural template Tom Shone uses for 'The Nolan Variations'; its 'Nimrod' variation was adapted by Zimmer for 'Dunkirk'.
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