Elgar: A Life in Photographs

by JerroldNorthropMoore (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1972

  $12.13

  Elgar's music epitomized for many people the times in which he lived. Thus, this pictorial record of his life is of interest and value. His biographer has accumulated here contemporary postcards, family photos and newspaper illustrations which combine to illuminate the composer's life and music. Many of the pictures are previously unknown, especially those of Elgar's childhood and youth.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $5.11

  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. Above all it links the composer to the English landscape that formed the backdrop to all of his work, from his earliest years. This powerful short book is the outcome of half a century's thought and reflection by a leading Elgar biographer.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.36

  'When Elgar's Cello Concerto reached my young ears fifty years ago across the seas in the United States, it transfixed me with its power to project a landscape I did not know. When knowledge came of Worcestershire, Elgar's projection proved strangely accurate. How could music do that?' 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. Above all it links the composer to the English landscape that formed the backdrop to all of his work, from his earliest years. This powerful short book is the outcome of half a century's thought and reflection by a leading Elgar biographer.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $12.23

  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. Above all it links the composer to the English landscape that formed the backdrop to all of his work, from his earliest years. This powerful short book is the outcome of half a century's thought and reflection by a leading Elgar biographer.