The Life of Elgar

by George Michael Sinclair Kennedy and Michael Kennedy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521009073
• ISBN13: 9780521009072
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"