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Edward Elgar is among the greatest of all English composers, and this major biography, the culmination of twenty years' work, is probably the most complete and perceptive study of the composer to date. Drawing on the vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, Jerrold Northrop Moore presents Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative career. This classic study, unavailable for many years, is here reissued as a Clarendon Paperback.

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The single indispensable book on Elgar's career and music. Choice

The single indispensable book on Elgar's career and music. --Choice<br> A superbly entertaining and informative biography, in which the music becomes an integral part of the thread which held this most extraordinary English composer together....Elgar comes to life on these pages as never before. --Musical Opinion<br> In the finest tradition of American scholarship--exact, comprehensive and bringing novel insights to Elgar's music. --The Sunday Times (London)<br> Here, in 841 pages with 500 musical examples, is all you could possibly want to know about Elgar...a monumental achievement. --Michael Kennedy, Daily Telegraph<br> His book is the greatest yet on any English Musician. --Punch<br>

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