The Life of Elgar - Musical Lives

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The Life of Elgar

The Life of Elgar - Musical Lives

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This important biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which became available in the preceding twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music and a distinguished musical biographer, uses this 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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780521009072
ISBN10 0521009073
Number Of Pages 240
Item Weight 280 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format paperback
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'The author … writes with a great sympathy for his subject, as well as a love for his music … [his] wide-ranging knowledge gives this thoroughly enjoyable biography a cultural depth which enriches one's understanding of the life and work of this complicated musical genius and English gentleman.' Contemporary Review
'Michael Kennedy's elegantly written volume is full of interesting and sagacious comments on Elgar's compositions …'. The Sunday Telegraph

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Author's Bio

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). He also authored a highly acclaimed study of Richard Strauss (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

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