Man of War: An Eric Steele Novel

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Edward Elgar, Worcestershire Sauce, Malvern, Worcestershire, Bishop of Worcester, Julius Harrison, University of Worcester, Bewdley, Hereford and Worcester, List of Places in Worcestershire, Duke of Beaufort, Hagley Hall, History of Worcestershire, Grade I Listed Buildings in Worcestershire, Malvern Museum, Broadway Tower, Berrow's Worcester Journal, Blakedown, Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, Birlingham, List of King George V Playing Fields. Excerpt: Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have achieved enduring popularity. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed oratorios, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a quintessentially English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was self-taught; in Protestant Britain his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely conscious of his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until into his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations became immediately popular in Britain and over... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10085