Three famous English composers died in 1934 - Elgar and Delius were two, who was the third?
British folk revival collected tunes and set poems to them to produce new religious songs. Similarly other composers such as Gustav Holst (1874–1934) and Frederick Delius (1862–1934) wrote music that utilized sections, cadences or themes from English folk music. By the 1940s this particular tendency among composers had begun to subside and other fusions would be more significant in the second folk revival. Similar developments could be seen in Scotland in the work of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who celebrated his native Scotland in three "Scottish Rhapsodies" for orchestra (1880–81, 1911), and in various concerted works for piano or violin and orchestra composed during
Frederick Delius boyhood exploits in the game. In 1933, the year before both composers died, Elgar, who had flown to Paris to conduct a performance of his Violin Concerto, visited Delius at Grez. Delius was not on the whole an admirer of Elgar's music, but the two men took to each other, and there followed a warm correspondence until Elgar's death in February 1934. Elgar described Delius as "a poet and a visionary". Delius died at Grez on 10 June 1934, aged 72. He had wished to be buried in his own garden, but the French authorities forbade it. His alternative wish,