About Jonathan Boswell Books
Jonathan Boswell is a general historian. After National Service he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at New College, Oxford. 12 years in industry were followed by a long academic career, working at the City University Business School, St Antony's College Oxford, and finally for 10 years at the Von Hugel Institute, St Edmund's College Cambridge. He has published books on business history and social ideas. He has three daughters and six grandchildren and lives with his wife in North London. Music has been a lifelong passion, starting as a boy with Bach's preludes and fugues on the keyboard, developing into a fascination with music history, general ideas about music and its relationships with emotion, imagination, secular ideas and religion. A lover of Palestrina's music since early manhood, later he sang large quantities of it in choral groups devoted to early music. From this experience, together with extensive study, intensive listening and wide discussion, sprang years of work on this book.
