Elgar the Music Maker

An expert and informative appraisal of all of Elgar's works — from his juvenilia to the unfinished 3rd symphony — by the author of the acclaimed Gerald Finzi.

The new Diana McVeagh 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 whic...