Portrait of Elgar

Zusatztext The most down-to-earth and comprehensive Elgar biography of its size, thoroughly researched, perceptively distilled and persuasively writtemn. Klappentext The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime! but! in reality! it concealed a highly complex! sometimes baffling! private individual. Although acquaintances found him a man of endless curiosity and good humour! his family and close friends knew him to be rather different: a prey to despair! neurotically mistrustful both of himself and of those who loved him and so damaged by the condescension and neglect of his early years that emotionally he never recovered. This is a reissue of the third edition of Michael Kenedy's portrait of this complexman - not an analytical survey of the music but a faithful likeness of the composer! recognizable! but at the same time a thoroughly individual interpretation of the subject. Zusammenfassung The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. This study of the composer's life uncovers a man who was prey to despair and neurotically mistrustful of his friends.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Kennedy, Michael (Chief Music Critic Kennedy, Kennedy Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.1993
• EAN: 9780198163657
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816365-7
• No. of pages: 394
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; England, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music