Norman Lebrecht

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Norman Lebrecht (2004)

Norman Lebrecht (born July 11, 1948 in London ) is a British journalist , radio presenter and author . He runs the music blog Slipped Disc .

Life

Norman Lebrecht was born in London in 1948 as the son of a metal trader and his wife. He was initially a student at the Jewish Orthodox Hasmonean High School in the London Borough of Barnet . In 1964/65 he attended the Yeshiva Kol Torah in Jerusalem. From 1966 to 1968 he studied at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv.

From 1970 to 1972 he was a reporter and TV producer for the Israeli radio and television authority IBA in Jerusalem. Then (1973 to 1978) he worked for the British news agency Visnews Ltd. in London and New York. In 1981 he became a special contributor for the Sunday Times in London. From 1994 to 2002 he worked as a music columnist for the Daily Telegraph . From 2002 to 2009 he was an editorial assistant and Wednesday columnist for the free Evening Standard in London. A (monthly) column was published on Standpoint Online from 2010 to 2017 . He has been writing for the London-based political and cultural magazine The Spectator since 2014 . He is also a cultural commentator on Bloomberg.com , The Wall Street Journal and WNYC / New York Public Radio as well as the classical music magazine The Strad . He writes reviews for Open Letters Monthly . From 2006 to 2016 he presented The Lebrecht Interview on the radio program Radio 3 of the BBC, which specializes in classical music . He interviewed personalities such as Kurt Masur , John Adams , Riccardo Muti , Andris Nelsons , Graham Vick , Lilian Hochhauser , Iván Fischer , Menahem Pressler and Gustavo Dudamel . He has been on the air with lebrecht.live since 2000 .

In 2007 he started the classical music and culture blog Slipped Disc on artsjournal.com , which has been independent since 2014. It covers music industry news , concert reviews, and CD / DVD reviews. According to its own information, the blog has over a million views a month. In July 2011, the information portal Wikio listed Slipped Disc among the “Top 20 Music Blogs”.

He is a member of the Rubin Academy of Music & Dance in Jerusalem and the Society of Authors in London. He gave lectures a. a. at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest.

Lebrecht has been married since 1977 and has three children. He lives in the City of Westminster in London.

Awards

In 1997 he received the Yorkshire Post Book Award (Music) from the Yorkshire Post of Leeds.

For his book The Song of Names he received the British literary prize Whitbread Book Award in the First novel category in 2002 . The book was also on the shortlist (fiction) of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize . The jury chairman Jeremy Isaacs praised the work in his 2003 JQ report on the 20 selected books.

In 2014 he was awarded the Italian music prize Cremona Music Award in the Communications category, which is why the pianist Grigory Sokolov felt compelled to reject the prize a year later.

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Although he is accused of wanting to provoke with his statements, Lebrecht's predictions about the decline of the classical music industry have for the most part been confirmed. Some of his 12 books even made it onto the international bestseller list and have been translated into 16 different languages.

His book 'Der Mythos vom Maestro' (1991) traces the history of conducting - from its origins as an independent profession in the 1870s to its later occupation with power, wealth and fame. When the Music Stops (US title: Who Killed Classical Music, 1997) is the first documented history of the classical music industry; the book examines background activity and predicts the collapse of the record industry. 'Played Out - Rise and Fall of the Classical Industry' (US title: 'The Life and Death of Classical Music, 2007) is an inside report on the development of the record industry' with a critical selection and analysis of the 100 most important records and the 20 worst.

Lebrecht has dealt extensively with the composer Gustav Mahler, about whom he wrote in his book 'Gustav Mahler in the Mirror of His Time' (1990). In his work 'The Complete Companion to 20th Century Music' (published 2000) the author deals with the topic of contemporary music. Lebrecht is also the founder and editor of the 'Phaidon' biographies of famous composers of the twentieth century.

His novel 'The Song of Names', the story of two boys growing up in London during the war, was published in 2001 and won the 'Whitebread First Novel Award'.

His other works include: 'The Book of Musical Anecdotes' (1985), 'Music in London' (1992), and 'Covent Garden: The Untold Story' (2000).

Lebrechts book Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness. The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Record Industry was withdrawn by publisher Penguin Books in October 2007 after the publisher was sued for misrepresentation by Naxos founder Klaus Heymann's injunction before the British High Court of Justice . The book was reprinted in a corrected version as a paperback edition in 2008 and is not available in a German translation.

Fonts (selection)

  • Music history in stories . Translated from English and set up as a German edition by Ulla and Konrad Küster , DVA, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-421-06490-3 .
  • The myth of the maestro . Translated from the English by Jochen Schürmann, M-und-T-Verlag, Zurich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-7265-6027-0 .
  • Gustav Mahler. Memories of his contemporaries . Schott, Main 1993, ISBN 3-7957-8282-1 .
  • Played out. The rise and fall of the classic industry . Translated from English by Ingeborg Hagedorn and Katja Naumann, Schott, Main 2007, ISBN 3-7957-0593-2 .

literature

  • "Lebrecht, Norman 1948–." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Encyclopedia.com. August 27, 2018 < http://www.encyclopedia.com >.

Web links

Commons : Norman Lebrecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Exclusive lecture by Norman Lebrecht , lfze.hu, accessed on August 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ Articles By norman lebrecht , standpointmag.co.uk, accessed August 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ spectator.co.uk , August 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Norman Lebrecht , bloomberg.com, accessed August 28, 2018.
  5. ^ Cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht to write for The Strad . thestrad.com, January 26, 2010.
  6. ↑ Articles by Norman Lebrecht , openlettersmonthly.com, accessed August 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ The Lebrecht Interview , bbc.co.uk, accessed on August 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ The Lebrecht Interview: Episodes , bbc.co.uk, accessed on August 27, 2018.
  9. ^ Marius Carboni: The classic music business . In: Paul Rutter (ed.): The Music Industry Handbook . 2nd edition, Routledge, Abington 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-91049-2 , pp. 215–245, here: p. 232.
  10. ↑ About , slippedisc.com, accessed on 27 August 2018th
  11. ↑ See July overview of top 20 music blogs, 05/07/11 , universaledition.com, accessed on August 28, 2018.
  12. ↑ Norman Lebrecht , literature.britishcouncil.org, accessed on August 28, 2018.
  13. ^ Shortlist for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prizes for 2002 . In: The Jewish Quarterly , Volume 50, No. 1, 2003, p. 6; Wingate Literary Prize: Zadie Smith and Sebastian Haffner win top literary prize . jewishquarterly.org, accessed August 27, 2018.
  14. ↑ Jeremy Isaacs: The JQ-Wingate Literary Prizes. The judges' report for 2003 . In: The Jewish Quarterly , Volume 50, No. 2, 2003, pp. 33f.
  15. ↑ CREMONA MUSIC AWARD, “Communication” category - Prize winner: Norman Lebrecht , cremonamusica.com, accessed on August 28, 2018.
  16. ↑ Grigory Sokolov refuses award because it has previously been won by Norman Lebrecht . gramophone.co.uk, September 28, 2015.
  17. ^ Caitlin Fitzsimmons: Standard writer's book withdrawn over libel. The Guardian , October 26, 2007, accessed September 16, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness. The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Record Industry. (No longer available online.) Penguin Books , archived from the original on September 16, 2018 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.penguin.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Lebrecht, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, radio host and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH London