1. Norman Lebrecht was born on 11 July 1948 and is a British music journalist and author best known as the owner of the classical music blog Slipped Disc.
14 Facts About Norman Lebrecht
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Norman Lebrecht's writings have been accused of sensationalism and criticized for their inaccuracies, while others have praised them as entertaining.
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Norman Lebrecht was described by Gilbert Kaplan as "surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music".
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Norman Lebrecht was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 to 2002, and assistant editor of the London Evening Standard from 2002 to 2009.
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Norman Lebrecht has written columns for the magazines Standpoint and The Critic.
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Norman Lebrecht was born on 11 July 1948 in London to Soloman and Marguerite Lebrecht.
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From 1964 to 1965, Norman Lebrecht attended Kol Torah Rabbinical College, a yeshiva school in Israel, and then Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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In 1977 Norman Lebrecht married the sculptor and writer Elbie Spivack; they have three daughters.
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Norman Lebrecht returned to London in 1972, where he was a news executive at Visnews Ltd from 1973 to 1978.
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Norman Lebrecht wrote a monthly column for the culture magazine Standpoint, which ceased publication in 2021.
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Some months before its demise, Norman Lebrecht transferred his monthly essay to a new magazine, The Critic.
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Heymann claimed that Norman Lebrecht had wrongly accused him of "serious business malpractices" in his book Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness, and identified at least 15 statements he claimed were inaccurate.
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Norman Lebrecht launched a classical music blog, Slipped Disc, in March 2007, originally as part of ArtsJournal.
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Norman Lebrecht himself was described by musicologist Richard Taruskin as "a sloppy but entertaining British muckraker".