 In 1830 , a well known composer of glees , George Hargreaves , set " Full many a gem " , the Elegy 's fourteenth stanza , for four voices . And finally , at the other end of the century , Alfred Cellier did set the whole work in a cantata composed expressly for the Leeds Festival , 1883 . The work was “ dedicated to Mrs Coleman of Stoke Park , in memory of some pleasant hours at the very spot where the scene of the elegy is supposed to be laid . ” A nearly contemporary cantata was also composed by Gertrude E. Quinton as Musa elegeia : being a setting to music of Gray 's Elegy ( London , 1885 ) . 
