Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a particularly haunting melody. Composed in 1888 for his future wife Caroline Alice Roberts, the work became an enormous success early on. Notesin the surviving autographs for the versions for violin and piano (HN 1188), violoncello and piano (HN 1189) and piano solo show that Elgar had intended making arrangements for numerous scorings - but only the three named versionswere authorised through original manuscri