Books by Michael Kennedy

Providing over 10,000 entries, the sixth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most up-to-date dictionary of musical terms available. Covering a wide range of musical categories across periods, it is an essential reference work for music students, teachers, lecturers, professional musicians, and music enthusiasts.

This is a study of William Walton's life and works. In this biography Walton's personality emerges as a creative artist committed to his art yet plagued by misgiving and doubts and prey to insecurity and frustration. Kennedy was appointed biographer by the composer himself.

Written by Michael Kennedy, music critic for the Sunday Telegraph, this first detailed biography of Richard Strauss for many years reassesses the man and the musician, drawing on much hitherto ignored material. In particular it considers Strauss's position during the period of the Third Reich.

Mahler's music is an intimate reflection of his life and thought, and his continual self-questioning on matters of belief and the role of mankind. This volume draws on documentary evidence, and gives an account of his childhood and youth, and of his years as an opera conductor in Cassel, Prague, Leipzig, Budapest, Hamburg, and Vienna.

This is a biographical account of Vaughan Williams' musical life - the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time the story of music in England over half a century and more. This reissue contains a new preface by the author.

This important biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which became available in the preceding twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a distinguished musical biographer, uses this material, which includes Elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to the centre of the composer's complex personality.

Originally published in 1964 as part of Michael Kennedy's The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, this catalogue is now published in a completely revised edition. The opportunity has been taken to include a mass of corrections and new material that have come to light since the book was last printed in 1982. The text has been reset for this edition.