The Life of Elgar

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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/05/2004
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.54w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780521009072

About the Author
Kennedy, Michael: - Michael Kennedy has been the music critic for the Sunday Telegraph since 1989. He has written numerous musical biographies, particularly of British composers and conductors, including A Portrait of Elgar (1986). He also authored a highly acclaimed study of Richard Strauss (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

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