External links
- Articles by Geoffrey Norris in The Daily Telegraph
- Articles by Geoffrey Norris on Grove Music Online
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| Born | September 19, 1947 London, England, UK |
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Geoffrey Norris (born 19 September 1947) is an English musicologist and music critic. His scholarship focuses on Russian composers; in particular, Norris is a scholar on the life and music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, about whom he has written in numerous articles and a 1976 book-length study. He was chief classical music critic of The Daily Telegraph from 1995 to 2009.
Geoffrey Norris was born in London, England in 19 September 1947. [1] [2] An enthusiast for Russian culture since his youth, Norris attended the University of Durham where his undergraduate dissertation was on The Five, a leading group of 19th-century Russian composers. [3] He continued his studies of Russian music at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts. [3] From 1995 to 2009, he was chief classical music critic of The Daily Telegraph . [1] Norris has been a lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music, Goldsmiths University of London and elsewhere, as well as a jury member for piano competitions. [3] Norris is Emeritus Professor of the Rachmaninoff Music Academy, Tambov, and from 2013 until 2022 lectured at the Gnesin Music Academy, Moscow. [4]
Norris' scholarship focuses on Russian composers, and in particular, Sergei Rachmaninoff. [3] He has written numerous articles, [5] [6] [7] [8] and a book-length study on Rachmaninoff, [9] whose works he catalogued in a 1982 publication with Robert Threlfall. [10] He has also compiled and edited an anthology of interviews that Rachmaninoff gave to the press, Sergei Rachmaninoff In His Own Words (2024).
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