Schoenberg does Elgar

Wolfgang Rihm, the German composer, found while examining fragments of Arnold Schoenberg's work the beginning of a contrapuntal exercise that appears to be based on Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations." (Pause to ponder the unlikelihood.) Tom Service expounds on his blog for The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2010/feb/23/schoenberg-elgar-wolfgang-rihm-orchesterfragmente