![]() Rosen lived and worked entirely immersed in both the spheres of language and music in a way few others could in an 2007 review of a performance of Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata Op. ![]() Rosen also held the position of the Norton Chair of Poetics at Harvard University, a title previously held by Bernstein, Copland, Stravinsky, T.S. A prolific author, essayist and Guggenheim Award winner, Rosen published two staple books on classical music, 1971's The Classical Style and 1995's The Romantic Generation, and was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. Pianist, classical music scholar and thinker Charles Rosen died in New York yesterday at age 85 following a battle with cancer. President Barack Obama and the late pianist and scholar Charles Rosen, after Rosen was presented with a 2011 National Humanities Medal on February 13. ![]()
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