Tags: Classical Music Composition.
The Sanguine Fan Op. 81 is a single-act ballet written by Sir Edward Elgar in 1917. It was one of the pieces he composed to raise money for wartime charities having been asked to write it by his close friend and confidante Lady Alice Stuart-Wortley.The theme of the ballet was inspired by a scene depicting Pan and Echo that an artist Charles Conder had drawn in sanguine on a fan although the title itself is incidental to the theme.