Nor­man Lebrecht is the world’s best­selling author on clas­si­cal music. His Whit­bread Award-win­ning nov­el, The Song of Names, is cur­rent­ly being devel­oped into a fea­ture film. Aside from the his­to­ry of West­ern music, he has a life­long pas­sion for the cul­ture and chron­i­cles of the Jew­ish peo­ple and is the author of Genius & Anx­i­ety. He lives in London.