August Jaeger

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August Jaeger (1860-1909), German by birth, developed a close personal relationship with the English composer Edward Elgar by virtue of his employment at the London music publisher Novello. His advice and friendship became invaluable to Elgar, causing the composer to rethink many famous musical passages, including the finale to his Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma Variations) and the climax of The Dream of Gerontius. Jaeger has been immortalized in the famous Nimrod variation from the first above-mentioned work, recalling a conversation on the slow movements of Beethoven (Nimrod was a Biblical hunter, a pun on the German word for hunter, jaeger).

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