His 1971 book, "The Classical Style," won the National Book Award for nonfiction. TSIOULCAS: Rosen also helped shape the general public's understanding of classical music. He also taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and he continued performing. And over the years, Rosen became a prolific author and essayist for the New York Review of Books. It seems the liner notes to one of his recordings were so bad that he decided to write them himself. TSIOULCAS: He started writing about music a decade later, out of sheer necessity. Then he dropped that for a promising career as a performer. from Princeton - not in music, but in French literature. But Rosen veered off the typical music prodigy course pretty early on. His piano teacher's teacher was Franz Liszt. NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas has this appreciation.ĪNASTASIA TSIOULCAS, BYLINE: Charles Rosen was enrolled at the Juilliard School when he was just six. When Charles Rosen died yesterday in New York City of cancer, he was 85 years old. He was also a National Book Award-winning author. Charles Rosen was a Renaissance man in an age of hyper-specialization: a pianist who could play Baroque and Romantic works, as well as modern pieces.
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