Salut d’Amour, Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally as a
short piece for piano or for violin solo with piano accompaniment.
Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice
Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" ('Love’s Greeting') because of Miss Roberts’ fluency in
German.
When he returned home to London on 22nd September from a holiday at the house
of his friend Dr. Charles Buck, in Settle, he presented her with it as his engagement present.
Alice, for her part, offered him a poem called "The Wind at Dawn" which she had written
years before and which he soon set to music.