Ernest John Moeran : His Life and Music Hardback
by Ian (Honorary Research Fellow, Music Department, University of Sheffield) Maxwell
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This long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) finally provides a full biography of the last senior figure in early twentieth-century British Music to have been without one. This long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) finally provides a full biography of the last senior figure in early twentieth-century British Music to have been without one. Although Moeran's work was widely performed during his lifetime, he suffered neglect in the years following his death.
It was not until a re-awakening of appreciation for the music of the folksong-inspired English pastoralism in the latter part of the twentieth century that Moeran's tuneful, well-crafted and approachable music began to attract a new audience.
However, widely accepted misconceptions about his life and character have obscured a clearunderstanding of both man and composer. Written with the benefit of access to previously unknown or unresearched archives, Ernest John Moeran: His Life and Music strips away a hitherto unchallenged mythological framework, and replaces it by a thorough-going examination and analysis of the life and work of a musician that may reasonably be asserted as having been unique in British music history.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:375 pages, 9 b/w, 62 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:18/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781783276011
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:375 pages, 9 b/w, 62 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:18/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783276011