Portrait of Elgar (Clarendon Paperbacks)

by Michael Kennedy (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

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  The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. Although acquaintances found him a man of endless curiosity and good humour, his family and close friends knew him to be rather different: a prey to despair, neurotically mistrustful both of himself and of those who loved him and so damaged by the condescension and neglect of his early years that emotionally he never recovered. This is a reissue of the third edition of Michael Kenedy's portrait of this complexman - not an analytical survey of the music but a faithful likeness of the composer, recognizable, but at the same time a thoroughly individual interpretation of the subject.

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  1987

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  First published in 1968, this biography of Edward Elgar--one of England's foremost twentieth-century composers--paints a compelling portrait of Elgar's complex personal and musical character. For this third edition, Kennedy has added new material and incorporated recent research, shedding new light into Elgar's early years. Kennedy has also revised and expanded the list of works.