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.
