The new Diana Mc Veagh book on Elgar is first-rate, wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study of the composer, published in 1955. In the completely new
Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music, scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered and using them to assess the ways in which they affect the compositions.
Diana Mc Veagh explores Elgar’s complex personality and his compositional methods, his style and his relationship to his contemporaries, yet it is the music – still played, recorded, loved and discussed as much as ever- that remains her prime focus.
Each of Elgar’s works is discussed, balancing information and appraisal, from his juvenilia to his unfinished Third Symphony. Diana Mc Veagh provides a compelling and accessible companion to the music of one of England’s greatest composers. Musicians, scholars and CD collectors alikewill find much to enjoy in
Elgar the Music Maker.
Diana Mc Veagh is the author of the highly acclaimed
Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music [2005]; of the entries on Elgar and Finzi for
The New Grove Dictionaryof Music and Musicians [1980, 2001]; and of the Finzi entry in
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2004].
Table of Content
The Making of an Enigma 1857-1899
To the Greater Glory of God 1899-1909
The Symphonist
The Music of Wartime 1914-1920
The Last Years 1920-1934
Coda
About the author
DIANA MCVEAGH is a Vice-President of the Elgar Society. Her interests range from Josquin to Birtwistle, but she writes mostly about English Romantics. She is the author of Elgar: His Life and Music (Dent, 1955), and the highly acclaimed Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (Boydell, 2005 and 2010), and Elgar: The Music Maker (Boydell, 2007). She has contributed to the New Grove (1980, 2001) and the Dictionary of National Biography.
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