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BBC Documentaries: Season 2010

2010x129 Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask
TV-PG

  • 2010-11-12T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
The composer of Land of Hope and Glory is often regarded as the quintessential English gentleman, but Edward Elgar's image of hearty nobility was deliberately contrived. In reality, he was the son of a shopkeeper, who was awkward, nervous, self-pitying and often rude, while his marriage to his devoted wife Alice was complicated by romantic entanglements which fired his creative energy. In this revelatory portrait of a musical genius, John Bridcut explores the secret conflicts in Elgar's nature which produced some of Britain's greatest music.
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