![]() ![]() But Charles Rosen is that rare individual who’s excelled in two distinct, if related, realms. Had he confined his activities to either pursuit – scholarship or performance – he would easily have achieved distinction in the field. He earned his writing chops by preparing liner notes to accompany his own highly-regarded recordings of piano works by Liszt, Haydn, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Carter, and others. He’s also a celebrated pianist – he completed his studies at Juilliard at the age of eleven. But he didn’t begin his career authoring book-length works.įor Rosen isn’t just an important scholar. Rosen is remarkable both for his erudition and for the clarity and elegance of his writing. It has since become a standard text – perhaps the definitive text – on the three great masters of the classical style, as well as on the style itself. ![]() Charles Rosen’s The Classical Style won the 1972 National Book Award in Arts and Letters. ![]()
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