Elgar
By: Robert Anderson
Series: The Master musicians; Master musicians series
Publisher: Schirmer Books; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780028701851
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Description: One of the last composers of the Romantic era, Elgar was hailed as England's greatest composer since Purcell, but fell out of favor after World War I when modernism shook the world of music. Anderson's study spotlights Elgar's true achievement in forging an individual style from the legacy of Brahms and Wagner.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by the Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. ... London"--T.p. verso.

"List of works": p. 437-454.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-474) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Aspirations social and musical (1857-1889); title: 2. Ideals pictured within (1889-1899); title: 3. Charged with the grandeur of God (1899-1903); title: 4. Duties professorial and religious (1903-1907); title: 5. Massive hope and elevated mood (1908-1911); title: 6. Siromoris becomes a youth (1912-1915); title: 7. Sorrows national and personal (1916-1920); title: 8. Silence rarely broken (1920-1934); title: 9. Secular choral works; title: 10. Oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius and other religious works; title: 11. Dramatic music, partsongs and songs; title: 12. Marches, major orchestral works, transcriptions; title: 13. Smaller orchestral, string, chamber and instrumental music; title: 14. Musical characteristics; title: App. A Calendar; title: App. B List of works; title: App. C Personalia; title: App. D Bibliography.