Edward Elgar: Music, Life and Landscapes

by Christopher Grogan and Suzie Grogan

More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an 'icon of locality, ' his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar's complex interaction with his physical environment, explores how it is that such associations are formed and whether it is any sense true that Elgar alchemized landscape into music.

It argues that Elgar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526764628
• ISBN13: 9781526764621
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"