Edward Elgar: A Creative LifeEdward 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 Drawing on the vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, JerroldNorthrop Moore presents Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative career.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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| Title | Edward Elgar: A Creative Life Clarendon paperbacks |
| Author | Jerrold Northrop Moore |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0198163665, 9780198163664 |
| Length | 841 pages |
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