Elgar
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
Print Book, English, 1993
Schirmer Books : Maxwell Macmillan International, New York, 1993
Biography
xv, 493 pages : illustrations, portraits, pls., music, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
9780028701851, 0028701852
27812940
1. Aspirations social and musical (1857-1889)
2. Ideals pictured within (1889-1899)
3. Charged with the grandeur of God (1899-1903)
4. Duties professorial and religious (1903-1907)
5. Massive hope and elevated mood (1908-1911)
6. Siromoris becomes a youth (1912-1915)
7. Sorrows national and personal (1916-1920)
8. Silence rarely broken (1920-1934)
9. Secular choral works
10. Oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius and other religious works
11. Dramatic music, partsongs and songs
12. Marches, major orchestral works, transcriptions
13. Smaller orchestral, string, chamber and instrumental music
14. Musical characteristics
App. A Calendar
App. B List of works
App. C Personalia
App. D Bibliography
"First published in Great Britain by the Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. ... London"--Title page verso