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.