The Life of Elgar

By:

Michael Kennedy

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Musical Lives

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This important new biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which have become available in the last twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music and a distinguished musical biographer, uses this new material, which includes Elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to the centre of the composer's complex personality. Elgar's letters reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not wanted', and although much of Elgar's music sounds confident and coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and insecurity. His relationships with his wife and other women friends are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his meteoric rise to fame, honours in Edward VII's reign and friendship with the King.

Author Biography:

Michael Kennedy has been the music critic for the Sunday Telegraph since 1989. He has written numerous musical biographies, particularly of British composers and conductors, including A Portrait of Elgar (1986). His most recent book is a highly acclaimed study of Richard Strauss (Cambridge, 1999).

Release date NZ

March 18th, 2004

Author

Michael Kennedy

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

30 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

240

Series

Musical Lives

Dimensions

141x215x15

ISBN-13

9780521009072

Product ID

2484167

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