sentences:  Jaeger met Edward Elgar in late 1897, when he was publishing office manager at Novellos, and their first correspondence was regarding the publication of Elgar's "Te Deum and Benedictus".His advice, friendship and encouragement became invaluable to Elgar, for example causing the composer to rework many famous musical passages, including the finale to his "Variations on an Original Theme" ("Enigma Variations") and the climax of "The Dream of Gerontius".Jaeger has been immortalized in the famous ninth variation "Nimrod" from the "Variations", recalling a conversation on the slow movements of Beethoven (Nimrod was a Biblical hunter, a pun on the German word for hunter, "Jäger").