Jessica Duchen
British music writer, novelist and librettist; Ghost Variations, Myra Hess.
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- Jessica Duchen is a British music writer, novelist, playwright and opera librettist.
- She was a classical music correspondent for The Independent for 12 years.
- She writes libretti for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, and her biography Myra Hess: National Treasure came out in 2025.
Key facts
- Born
- London1
- Education
- Music, Jesus College, Cambridge1
- Novels
- Hungarian Dances (2008); Ghost Variations (2016); Odette (2018); Immortal (2020)1
- Non-fiction
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1996); Gabriel Fauré (2000); Myra Hess: National Treasure (2025)1
- Libretti
- Silver Birch (2017) and Dalia (2022), operas by Roxanna Panufnik1
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