Career
He published books on the composers Jean Sibelius, Peter Warlock and Carlo Gesualdo, the last of these co-authored by the same Warlock. Also a history of music, collections of essays on music, a play about Gilles de Rais and an autobiography. He also wrote three operas: Deirdre (performed in part on the British Broadcasting Corporation), The Temptation of Street Anthony (after Flaubert) and The Trojan Women.