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Edward Elgar: A Creative Life (Clarendon Paperbacks) Paperback – September 16, 1999

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Drawing on a vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, Moore here presents Sir Edward Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative whole.

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"The single indispensable book on Elgar's career and music."--Choice

"A superbly entertaining and informative biography, in which the music becomes an integral part of the thread which held this most extraordinary English composer together....Elgar comes to life on these pages as never before."--Musical Opinion

"In the finest tradition of American scholarship--exact, comprehensive and bringing novel insights to Elgar's music."--The Sunday Times (London)

"Here, in 841 pages with 500 musical examples, is all you could possibly want to know about Elgar...a monumental achievement."--Michael Kennedy, Daily Telegraph

"His book is the greatest yet on any English Musician."--Punch

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarendon Press (September 16, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 858 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198163665
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198163664
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 2 x 9.5 inches

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- #19,071 in Composer & Musician Biographies

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Frank Beck

The definitive biography of an enigmatic composer.

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 1999

Kudos to Oxford for bringing this classic back into print! Jerrold Northrop Moore worked for more than 20 years to write this definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest composers.
Using primary sources that range from Elgar's musical sketches and scores to letters, diaries and contemporary reviews, Moore shows how a self-taught violin teacher from a provincial English town created such masterpieces as the Enigma Variations, the Cello Concerto and the Dream of Gerontius. All this at a time when the vogue for Brahms and other Continental composers made it hard for even well-connected British ones like Arthur Sullivan to get their orchestral works heard.
Moore describes in fascinating detail how Elgar shaped and reshaped each major work, sometimes over a period of years--the Second Symphony took almost a decade to compose. He also explores Elgar's complex personality. Uneasy about his middle-class origins, he often played the role of a bluff, country gentleman, but his music is more like that of a British Tchaikovsky--extravagant and restless, with a powerful emotional charge.
As Elgar's story unfolds, the whole artistic life of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain is conjured up. Moore traces the composer's friendships with Hans Richter, Richard Strauss, Fritz Kreisler, George Bernard Shaw and Augustus Jaeger, the editor at Novello's who recognized and nurtured Elgar's genius.

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Frank Beck

The landmark account of Elgar's creative development.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2004

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Kudos to Oxford for bringing this classic back into print! Jerrold Northrop Moore worked for more than 20 years to write this definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest composers.
Using primary sources that range from Elgar's musical sketches and scores to letters, diaries and contemporary reviews, Moore shows how a self-taught violin teacher from Worcester created such masterpieces as the Enigma Variations, the Cello Concerto and the Dream of Gerontius. What's more, Elgar managed to get them performed--at a time Continental composers dominated the nation's concert halls.
Moore describes in fascinating detail how Elgar shaped and reshaped each major work, sometimes over a period of years--the Second Symphony took almost a decade to compose. He also explores Elgar's complex personality. Uneasy about his middle-class origins, he often played the role of a bluff, country gentleman, but his music is more like that of a British Tchaikovsky--extravagant and restless, with a powerful emotional charge.
As Elgar's story unfolds, the whole artistic life of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain is conjured up. Moore traces the composer's friendships with Hans Richter, Richard Strauss, Fritz Kreisler, George Bernard Shaw and Augustus Jaeger, the editor at Novello's who recognized and nurtured Elgar's genius.

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