About the Author

Michael Steen was born in Dublin. He studied at the Royal College of Music, was organ scholar at Oriel College Oxford and then spent thirty years in a successful career in the City of London. He is chairman of the Royal College of Music Society.

Reviews

'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again'
*Sir Jeremy Isaacs*

'Hugely informative and deliciously gossipy'
*Spectator*

'Michael Steen's beautifully illustrated book packs an astonishing amount of biographical and cultural detail into nearly forty subjects.'
*Independent on Sunday*

'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' -- Sir Jeremy Isaacs
'Hugely informative and deliciously gossipy' -- Spectator
'Michael Steen's beautifully illustrated book packs an astonishing amount of biographical and cultural detail into nearly forty subjects.' -- Independent on Sunday