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Elgar The Music Maker
The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar is first-rate " wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study of the composer published in 1955. In the completely new Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered and using them to assess the ways in which they affect the compositions. Diana McVeagh explores Elgars complex personality and his compositional methods his style and his relationship to his contemporaries yet it is the music - still played recorded loved and discussed as much as ever- that remains her prime focus. Each of Elgars works is discussed balancing information and appraisal from his juvenilia to his unfinished Third Symphony. Diana McVeagh provides a compelling and accessible companion
to the music of one of Englands greatest composers. Musicians scholars and CD collectors alike will find much to enjoy in Elgar the Music Maker. Diana McVeagh is the author of the highly acclaimed Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (2005); of the entries on Elgar and Finzi for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980 2001); and of the Finzi entry in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)."
to the music of one of Englands greatest composers. Musicians scholars and CD collectors alike will find much to enjoy in Elgar the Music Maker. Diana McVeagh is the author of the highly acclaimed Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (2005); of the entries on Elgar and Finzi for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980 2001); and of the Finzi entry in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)."
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