Overview
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
- | Publication Date: Mar 18, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521009073
- | ISBN-13: 9780521009072
