John Deathridge is a writer and academic, specializing in Wagner and Beethoven. After becoming a Reader in Music at the University of Cambridge, where he had been a Fellow of King’s College since 1983, he was appointed King Edward Professor Music King’s College London in 1996. He is a regular broadcaster and was the music advisor for BBC 2 Television’s three-part drama on Beethoven broadcast in 2005. in the same year he was elected President of the Royal Musical Association.
