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The Life of Elgar - Musical Lives (Hardcover)
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The Life of Elgar - Musical Lives (Hardcover)
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This important new biography of Elgar draws on letters and
documents which have become available in the last twenty-five
years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music and a
distinguished musical biographer, uses this new material, which
includes Elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to
the centre of 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', and although much of Elgar's music sounds confident and
coherent, it also has an underlying layer of unease, melancholy and
insecurity. His relationships with his wife and other women friends
are a continuing thread in the life of a man who remained acutely
conscious of his lower middle-class origins in spite of his
meteoric rise to fame, honours in Edward VII's reign and friendship
with the King.
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