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Praise
for Elgar the Music Maker
"The
style is clear and easy to follow; technical expressions are
not avoided but kept to a reasonable minimum... McVeagh is
also able to make it clear how much she loves and admires
the music without making any extravagant claims on its
behalf. It's hard to imagine a more sane approach...the
insights...keep coming." BBC Music Magazine (Stephen
Johnson)
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An expert and informative
appraisal of all of Elgar's works - from his juvenilia to
the unfinished 3rd symphony - by the author of the acclaimed
Gerald Finzi: His Life & Music. |
"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 Elgar's 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 Elgar's 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
England's greatest composers.
Musicians, scholars and CD collectors alike will find much to enjoy in
Elgar the Music Maker.
The
Author
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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12 b/w illustrations
264 pages
Size: 19 x 12 cm
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781843832959
First published: 21/Jun/2007
Price: £16.99 / $29.95
Click
here to read Diana
McVeagh on Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations
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