TIL the movements of Sir Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations are named after his friends and family. The most famous movement, Nimrod is a wordplay and represents his friend August Jaeger, Nimrod being the biblical “mighty hunter” and Jaeger being German for “hunter”.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Enigma-Variations
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