Elgar : the man / Michael De-la-Noy.
| Author/creator | De-la-Noy, Michael |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : A. Lane, 1983. |
| Description | 239 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A most miserable looking lad: 1857-85 -- A weird & blackened thing: 1885-1898 -- A triumph everywhere: 1892-1902 -- Remember poor Nim: 1902-1908 -- Music is written in the skies: 1908-1920 -- Everything buttoned up: 1920-1933 -- Billy, this is the end: 1932-1934. |
| Abstract | Born in 1857, the son of a piano-tuner and a farmer's daughter, Elgar spent his first forty years showing little sign that life had anything more to offer than his job as bandmaster in the Worcester Lunatic Asylum and a niche in the provincial music circuit. Then, in 1899, the success of his Enigma Variations made him a national celebrity. He crammed his whole life's work into the next twenty years, ending in 1919 with his Cello Concerto. He had fifteen years left to live, years spent in bitter disillusionment in which he felt his life had been a failure. In this moving biography the author reveals for the first time the depth and complexity of a man whom, he believes, struggled against exceptional emotional difficulties to produce some of the finest music ever written. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 236) and index. |
| ISBN | 0713915323 |