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Also known as Rosen, Charles, Charles Welles Rosen

American pianist and writer on music (1927–2012)

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1927-05-05
Active to
2012-12-09

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Charles Rosen (born May 5, 1927) is an American pianist and music theorist. Charles Rosen studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal, but in an interview published in the June 2007 edition of BBC Music Magazine, he cites Josef Hofmann, whom he says he heard every year from age three, as a greater influence. Rosen recalls having played for Leopold Godowsky at age seven; Godowsky asked Rosen what he would like to be when he grew up, and, to Godowsky's amusement, Rosen answered, "I want to be a pianist li

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Quotes

  • The eventual survival of the tradition is ultimately not at stake.
  • Our freedom is hemmed in on every side. We must be grateful for what remains.
  • Understanding music simply means not being irritated or puzzled by it.
  • More positively, taking pleasure in music is the most obvious sign of comprehension, the proof that we understand it, and we may extend that to sympathy with other listeners' enjoyment ...
  • It is not, however, the unfamiliarity or strangeness of a work or of a composer's manner that is a bar to understanding, but rather the disappearance of the familiar, the ongoing disappointment of the expectations and hopes fostered by the musical tradition in which we have grown up.
  • We can, in fact, relive the history of taste in our own lives, the way embryos are supposed to go through the history of the evolution of a species.

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