Music Man.

Recent programme on the telly about the life of Edward Elgar, who regular readers of this blog will know is a favourite composer of mine.  Can't understand this general obsession with probing into the private lives of artists - just sometimes it helps to understand why they produced a particular work, but for the most part it just seems to be intrusion for its own sake.  Why can't we just accept that Elgar produced a lot of good music, some really great music, and every now and again some absolutely sublime music - what more do you need to know?