Description

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is among the greatest of all English composers, and this major biography, the culmination of twenty years’ work, is probably the most complete and perceptive study of the composer to date. Drawing on the vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, Jerrold Northrop Moore presents Elgar’s life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative career. This classic study, for many years unavailable, is here reissued as a Clarendon Paperback.

CONTENTS

Preface
I. The Wand of Youth
1 The Better Land
2 Divisions
3 Ensembles
II. Enigma
4 The Man’s World
5 Hyperion
6 the Black Knight
III. Symphony
7 `Child Rowland to the Dark Tower Came’
8 Apostolic Successions
9 The Looked-for Genius
IV. For the Fallen
10 Death on the Hills
11 The Land of Lost Content
12 The Wanderer
Index