An unconventional, brilliant new biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi - from the bestselling biographer and acclaimed conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world's leading conductors. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted most of the world's great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses.
His first book, Music in the Castle of Heaven, was published in 2013 by Allen Lane.
