Elgar: Child of Dreams - Child of Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Born and brought up in the United States, Jerrold Northrop Moore lives in Worcestershire and has been listening to Elgar's music for more than fifty years. He is the author of the definitive biography Edward Elgar: A Creative Life, which has remained continuously in print since its first publication by Oxford University Press in 1984. Klappentext Jerrold Northrop Moore pursues his quest for the essential Elgar and sets out the story of an extraordinarily creative life. It shows themes of childhood, fantasy and vision fusing into a mature style of nobility and nostalgia. This powerful short book is the outcome of half a century's thought and reflection by a leading Elgar biographer. Zusammenfassung Jerrold Northrop Moore pursues his quest for the essential Elgar and sets out the story of an extraordinarily creative life. It shows themes of childhood, fantasy and vision fusing into a mature style of nobility and nostalgia. This powerful short book is the outcome of half a century's thought and reflection by a leading Elgar biographer.

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Jerrold Northrop Moore

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• Authors: Jerrold Northrop Moore, Jerrold Northrop Moore, Jerrold Northrop-Moore
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.02.2006
• EAN: 9780571223381
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22338-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Composers; Englishmen; Landscape