List Of Writers

GRIFFITHS, PAUL

Paul Griffiths was born in Bridgend, Wales, in 1947. He studied biochemistry at Oxford, and joined the editorial team of The New Grove in 1973. Around the same time he began working as a music critic for various London papers, especially The Times and The Financial Times. He was chief music critic of The Times from 1982 to 1992, when he joined The New Yorker. Paul has written many works on music, and has created various librettos. He has also written two novels, one of which, The Lay of Sir Tristram (1991), won a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. Since 2002 he has been commuting between New York and his home in Manorbier. He is married, with two sons.

Selected Publications:
Myself and Marco Polo (Chatto and Windus, 1989)
The Lay of Sir Tristram (Chatto and Windus, 1991)
Let Me Tell You (Reality Street Editions, 2008)

Music
A Concise History of Modern Music (Thames and Hudson, 1978)
Modern Music and After (Oxford University Press, 1995) 
Penguin Companion to Classical Music (Penguin, 2004)
A Concise History of Western Music (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Librettos
The Jewel Box (Mozart, 1991)
Marco Polo (Tan Dun, 1996) 
What Next? (Elliott Carter, 1999)