Nimrod is also the name of the ninth out of the fourteen
Enigma Variations written in 1899 by
composer Sir Edward Elgar.
Each of the variations, which were based on Elgar's work, Op. 36. was supposed to describe one of Elgar's close friends, and Nimrod was written for August Johannes Jaeger.
The Nimrod variation was written after a summer evening discussion between Elgar and Jaeger about the slow style of which Beethoven was the master. Elgar claims that 'It will be noticed that the opening bars are made to suggest the slow movement of the (Beethoven's) Eighth Sonata, Pathétique.'
This piece is often used in the UK on Remembrance Sunday and other more sombre state occasions.