Cockaigne (In London Town)

For other uses, see Cockayne (disambiguation).

Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40, also known as the Cockaigne Overture, is a concert overture for full orchestra written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1900–1901. It was his first purely orchestral work after his Enigma Variations had propelled him to national celebrity and it was an immediate success and has been much performed in concert and on record ever since.

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