Charles Rosen

Rosen is a fluent writer, having at his command both informality and rhetorical force. He is a musicologist and theoretician whose authority extends from Bach to Boulez. The rigor of his technical... — The New Yorker More…

In this sparkling 'short companion,' Rosen guides the listener through both musical structures and knotty performance decisions. . . . A CD on which Rosen himself plays completes a gorgeous... — The Guardian More…

[A] brilliant collection of essays...Whenever I read Rosen's work, I think of all the dim space in my brain that is occupied irreparably by old 'Brady Bunch' episodes and the sexual politics... — The New Yorker More…

Rosen shares absorbing anecdotes relating to his studies with Moriz Rosenthal, who had been a student of Liszt, and the time that he inadvertently offended Stravinsky by asking about an assumed... — BBC Music Magazine More…

This latest book, demonstrates Rosen's astonishing range of cultural reference--but also the essential coherence of his project, a coherence rooted in the aesthetic ideas of such German Romantics... — The Observer More…