Christopher Fifield

Christopher Fifield (4 September 1945 – 19 January 2025) was an English conductor, classical music historian and musicologist based in London.

Life and career From 1982 until 2022 music director of the Lambeth Orchestra,

Books 1988: repr. 2005 in paperback Max Bruch biography. Max Bruch: His Life and Works. New York City: George Braziller. . 1993: Hans Richter biography. Foreword by Georg Solti. True Artist and True Friend: A Biography of Hans Richter. Oxford University Press. . 2003: repr. 2011 in an enlarged and revised paperback edition Kathleen Ferrier biography. Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier. Woodbridge: Boydell. . 2005: Ibbs and Tillett history. Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire. Aldershot and London: Ashgate Publishing, formerly Scolar Press. . 2015: The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms: The Fall and Rise of a Genre. Aldershot and London: Ashgate Publishing .