![]() ![]() 120 he gave at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, critic Annette Morreau - calling the concert "a historic occasion" - observed in London's Independent that "the consummate writer, critic, musicologist and pianist Charles Rosen has been at the forefront of his many fields for most of his 80 years.To a packed hall, he gave a program that would tax the greatest performers half his age."īorn in New York City, he was enrolled at Juilliard at age 6. Rosen lived and worked entirely immersed in both the spheres of language and music in a way few others could in an 2007 review of a performance of Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata Op. Rosen also held the position of the Norton Chair of Poetics at Harvard University, a title previously held by Bernstein, Copland, Stravinsky, T.S. A prolific author, essayist and Guggenheim Award winner, Rosen published two staple books on classical music, 1971's The Classical Style and 1995's The Romantic Generation, and was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Pianist, classical music scholar and thinker Charles Rosen died in New York yesterday at age 85 following a battle with cancer. ![]() ![]() President Barack Obama and the late pianist and scholar Charles Rosen, after Rosen was presented with a 2011 National Humanities Medal on February 13. ![]()
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