Edward Elgar
Pen & Sword History (Verlag)
978-1-5267-6462-1 (ISBN)
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 stands at the apex of an English tradition, going back to Blake, in which creative artists in all media have identified and warned against the self-harm of environmental degradation and that, following a period in which these ideas were swept away by the swift but shallow tide of Modernism in the decades after the First World War, they have since resurfaced with a new relevance and urgency for twenty-first century society.
Written with the non-specialist in mind, yet drawing on the rich resources of post-millennial scholarship on Elgar, as well as geographical studies of place, the book also includes many new insights relating to such aspects of Elgar's output as his use of landscape typology in The Apostles, and his encounter with Modernism in the late chamber music. It also calls on the resources of contemporary social commentary, poetry and, especially, English landscape art to place Elgar and his thought in the broader cultural milieu of his time. A survey of recent recordings is included, in the hope that listeners, both familiar and unfamiliar with Elgar's music, will feel inspired to embark on a voyage of (re)discovery of its endlessly rewarding treasures.
**Christopher Grogan** is currently Head of Information Services at the Cambridge Theological Federation, prior to which he was, for 13 years, Director of Collections and Heritage for the Britten-Pears Foundation. Since completing his doctorate on Elgar's The Apostles in 1989, he has written extensively on English music and is the author of the well-received _Imogen Holst: A Life in Music_ (2nd ed., Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010). He is also a contributing editor to the _Elgar Complete Edition_. He lives in Suffolk with his wife, three children and Bichon Frise. **Suzie Grogan** is a freelance writer in the fields of literary and social history. She has been published widely on the history of health and is the author of _Shell Shocked Britain: The First World War's Legacy for Britain's Mental Health_ (Pen and Sword, 2014) and _Death Disease & Dissection: The Life of a Surgeon Apothecary 1750-1850_ (Pen and Sword, 2017) inspired by her lifelong study of Romantic poet John Keats. She writes for a number of high profile Romanticism blogs and is preparing a book on Keats for 2021/. She lives with her husband and rescue dog in Brittany.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 8pp. colour and integrated black & white and illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Barnsley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5267-6462-8 / 1526764628 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5267-6462-1 / 9781526764621 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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