Charles Rosen

Charles Rosen ( born May 5, 1927 in New York City; † December 9, 2012 ) was an American pianist and music theorist.

Roses made a dual career. As a piano virtuoso, he joined many solo and orchestral concerts on the world; he has - a number of 20th century compositions recorded, including works by Igor Stravinsky, Elliott Carter and Pierre Boulez - at the invitation of the composer. Among his most important recordings, released by Sony also includes the recording of the Goldberg Variations from 1967, as well as recordings of the late piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Rosen was also the author of many acclaimed books about music. His most famous book is The Classical Style ( 2nd edition, 1997, New York: Norton, 6th Edition: Barenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2012), in which the nature and development of the classical style of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven is analyzed. Sonata Forms (2nd edition, 1988, New York: Norton ) is a result of work at The Classical Style, an intensive analysis of the primary form of music of the classical era. The Romantic Generation (1998, Cambridge: Harvard University Press) covers the works of the early generation of Romantic composers from, including Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn.

Other books are:

• The Musical Languages ​​of Elliott Carter (1984 Washington, DC:. Music Division, Research Services, Library of Congress)
• The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music ( 1994 New York:. Hill and Wang )
• Arnold Schoenberg (1996 Chicago:. University of Chicago Press)
• Beethoven 's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion (2001, New Haven: Yale University Press)
• Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New (2001 Cambridge:. Harvard University Press)
• Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (2002: Free Press )

• Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth - Century Art (Henri Zerner, 1985 New York: Norton. )
• Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen (2000 Cambridge:. Harvard University Press)

Roses exercised from time to time teaching at various universities: Princeton, Harvard, Oxford and Chicago.