The Crown of India

For this masque, the English composer Sir Edward Elgar wrote the music as his Op.

The cast included: Elgar later extracted five of the pieces – 1(a), 2, 5, 8 and 4 – and added an intermezzo for solo violin to create The Crown of India Suite.

The complete score for the Crown of India incidental music was only published in a piano-vocal version by Elgar's friend Hugh Blair.

In 2007 the Elgar Society commissioned the composer Anthony Payne to complete the orchestration of the music for The Crown of India.

Payne is to "complete the scoring of the piano-vocal version and combining this, where appropriate, with the orchestral suite and march.