Norman Lebrecht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Norman Lebrecht

English author, broadcaster, music critic, cultural commentator

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1948

Place of Birth: London

Profession: writer, music critic, journalist, radio personality, novelist, musicologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948 in London) is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs, a novelist, and the author of the classical music blog Slipped Disc.He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 to 2002, and assistant editor of the London Evening Standard from 2002 to 2009.
On BBC Radio 3, Lebrecht presented lebrecht.live beginning in 2000, and The Lebrecht Interview from 2006 to 2016.
He won the 2002 Whitbread Award for First Novel for The Song of Names, at the age of 54.
He also writes a column for the magazine Standpoint.
Gilbert Kaplan described him as "surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music."