Edward Elgar: A Creative Life
- Author: Moore, Jerrold Northrop
The single indispensable book on Elgar's career and music
Edward Elgar: A Creative Life
- Author: Moore, Jerrold Northrop
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The single indispensable book on Elgar's career and music
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Edward Elgar is among the greatest of all English composers, and this major biography, the culmination of twenty years' work, is probably the most complete and perceptive study of the composer to date. Drawing on the vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, Jerrold Northrop Moore presents Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative career. This classic study, unavailable for many years, is here reissued as a Clarendon Paperback.
Contents
- Preface
- I. The Wand of Youth
- 1 The Better Land
- 2 Divisions
- 3 Ensembles
- II. Enigma
- 4 The Man's World
- 5 Hyperion
- 6 the Black Knight
- III. Symphony
- 7 `Child Rowland to the Dark Tower Came'
- 8 Apostolic Successions
- 9 The Looked-for Genius
- IV. For the Fallen
- 10 Death on the Hills
- 11 The Land of Lost Content
- 12 The Wanderer
- Index
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The single indispensable book on Elgar's career and music
