The Life of Elgar (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521810760)

This new biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which have become available over the last twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music as well as a distinguished musical biographer, uses the new material (including Elgar's vast personal correspondence) to analyze 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."

Author: Michael Kennedy
ISBN-10: 0521810760
ISBN-13: 9780521810760
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2004
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.51h x 6.19w x 0.83d