Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is a music critic and author. His previous books include Why Beethoven and Genius and Anxiety, also published by Oneworld, as well as the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler? and The Life and Death of Classical Music, which have been translated into seventeen languages. He founded Slippedisc.com, the world’s most widely read cultural website. His first novel, The Song of Names, won a Whitbread Award and was adapted into an award-winning film. He writes for the Critic, Spectator and the Sunday Times. He lives in London. Learn more at https://slippedisc.com/category/about-norman-lebrecht/