Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen's latest book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (March 2009)
From the Review
March 12, 2009: Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents by Felix Meyer and Anne C. Shreffler
February 26, 2009: T.S. Eliot Repents (letter)
November 20, 2008: What Happened to Wystan Auden?
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949–1955 edited by Edward Mendelson
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden edited by Stephen Burt with Hannah Brooks-Motl
February 14, 2008: The Genius of Montaigne
Les Essais by Michel de Montaigne, edited by Jean Balsamo, Michel Magnien, andCatherine Magnin Simon
December 6, 2007: What Mozart Meant: An Exchange
October 25, 2007: The Best Book on Mozart
W.A. Mozart by Hermann Abert, edited by Cliff Eisen, and translated from the German by Stewart Spencer
October 5, 2006: Opera: Follow the Music
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett
May 25, 2006: Mozart at 250
Mozart by Julian Rushton
Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe
The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart by Nicholas Kenyon
March 23, 2006: Paul Henry Lang (letter)
March 9, 2006: From the Troubadours to Sinatra: Part II
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
February 23, 2006: From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
November 3, 2005: Playing Music: The Lost Freedom
Performing Music in the Age of Recording by Robert Philip
June 9, 2005: The Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with an introduction by William Gass
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. Text in three volumes edited by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, and Rhonda L. Blair, with an introduction by J.B. Bamborough; commentary in three volumes edited by J.B. Bamborough and Martin Dodsworth
March 10, 2005: 'Red-Hot Moma' (letter)
January 13, 2005: Red-Hot MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Yoshio Taniguchi, architect
Modern Painting and Sculpture: 1880 to the Present at the Museum of Modern Art edited by John Elderfield
January 15, 2004: Culture & the Market (letter)
November 6, 2003: Culture on the Market
February 13, 2003: Adoring Adorno (letter)
January 16, 2003: Multicultural Correctness (letter)
October 24, 2002: Should We Adore Adorno?
Philosophy of Modern Music by Theodor W. Adorno, translated from the German by Anne G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Blomster
Essays on Music by Theodor W. Adorno, selected and with an introduction, commentary, and notes by Richard Leppert, and new translations from the German by Susan H. Gillespie
Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music by Theodor W. Adorno, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated from the German by Edmond Jephcott
March 14, 2002: Steak and Potatoes
December 20, 2001: The Future of Music
June 21, 2001: Within a Budding Grove
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition edited by Stanley Sadie
December 21, 2000: Genius in Private
August 10, 2000: Scenes from the American Dream
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People 17- September 24, 2000. by June an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Catalog of the exhibition edited by Maureen Hart Hennessey, by Anne Knutson
February 24, 2000: Playing the Piano (letter)
January 20, 2000: The Drama Inside the Concerto
Concerto Conversations by Joseph Kerman
December 16, 1999: 'Playing the Piano' (letter)
October 21, 1999: On Playing the Piano
June 24, 1999: Rhymes with 'IX' (letter)
May 20, 1999: Mallarmé the Magnificent
Oeuvres complètes, Vol. 1 by Stéphane Mallarmé, edited by Bertrand Marchal
March 18, 1999: 'Aimez-Vous Brahms?': An Exchange
October 22, 1998: Aimez-Vous Brahms?
Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford
Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters selected and annotated by Styra Avins
Brahms Studies 2 edited by David Brodbeck
Brahms: The Four Symphonies by Walter Frisch
June 25, 1998: 'Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?': An Exchange
May 14, 1998: Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?
February 19, 1998: The Other Perrault (letter)
December 18, 1997: The Fabulous La Fontaine
Le Poète et le Roi: Jean de La Fontaine en son siècle by Marc Fumaroli
October 9, 1997: The Great Inventor
Bach and the Patterns of Invention by Laurence Dreyfus
April 24, 1997: The Missing Bassoon (letter)
April 10, 1997: Beethoven's Genius: An Exchange
November 14, 1996: Did Beethoven Have All the Luck?
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 by Tia DeNora
May 9, 1996: The Scandal of the Classics
Oeuvres Complètes, Volume 5: Ecrits sur la musique, la langue et le théâtre by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Volumes I–III by Robert Burton
Oeuvres, Volume 2 by Marquis de Sade
Sämtliche Werke, Band 7/I and 7/II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Werke, Band 3: Politische Schriften by Bettina von Arnim
February 1, 1996: Getting Back to Life (letter)
November 16, 1995: Beethoven's Triumph' (letter)
September 21, 1995: Beethoven's Triumph
Listening in Paris: A Cultural History by James H. Johnson
Beethoven by William Kinderman
December 1, 1994: Only One Song (letter)
October 20, 1994: Schubert à la Mode (letter)
September 22, 1994: 'Music à La Mode' (letter)
June 23, 1994: Music à la Mode
Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process by Lewis Lockwood
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality by Susan McClary
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception edited by Richard Leppert and Susan McClary
Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship edited by Ruth A. Solie
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas
Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of the Classical Style by James Webster
Haydn and the Classical Variation by Elaine R. Sisman
October 21, 1993: The Miraculous Mandarin
William Empson: Essays on Renaissance Literature: Volume One, Donne and the New Philosophy edited by John Haffenden
William Empson: Argufying, Essays on Literature and Culture edited by John Haffenden
June 10, 1993: Wagner's Anti-Semitism (letter)
April 22, 1993: The Ridiculous & Sublime
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera edited by Stanley Sadie
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
October 22, 1992: The Mad Poets
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, 'Adelphi' and Letters 1750–1781, edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 2, Letters 1782–1786 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 3, Letters 1787–1791 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 4, Letters 1792–1799 edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 5, Prose 1756–c. 1799 and Cumulative Index edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
William Cowper: Selected Letters edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 1, Jubilate Agno edited by Karina Williamson
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 2, Religious Poetry edited by Marcus Walsh, edited by Karina Williamson
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 3, A Translation of the Psalms of David edited by Marcus Walsh
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin edited by Karina Williamson
April 9, 1992: 'Radical, Conventional Mozart': An Exchange
January 30, 1992: Friendly Corrections (letter)
December 19, 1991: Radical, Conventional Mozart
Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World selected and with a commentary by Robert L. Marshall
Autonomy and Mercy: Reflections on Mozart's Operas by Ivan Nagel, translated by Marion Faber, by Ivan Nagel
Mozart's Operas by Daniel Heartz
February 14, 1991: 'The Shock of the Old' (letter)
November 8, 1990: Early Music: An Exchange
October 11, 1990: The Shock of the Old (letter)
July 19, 1990: The Shock of the Old
Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium edited by Nicholas Kenyon
January 19, 1989: Vulcan's Net (letter)
December 8, 1988: Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter
October 27, 1988: Inventor of Modern Opera
Oeuvres by Caron de Beaumarchais
April 14, 1988: 'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
March 17, 1988: 'Obnoxious' (letter)
December 17, 1987: Romantic Originals
La Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac, published under the direction of Pierre-Georges Castex
Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works edited by Jerome J. McGann
The Cornell Wordsworth edited by Stephen M. Parrish
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism An exhibition at the New York Public Library through January 2, 1988
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism Catalog of the exhibition by Jonathan Wordsworth, by Michael C. Jaye, by Robert Woof
May 28, 1987: The Chopin Touch
Fryderyk Chopin: Pianist from Warsaw by William G. Atwood
Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as Seen by his Pupils by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, translated by Naomi Shohet, translated by Krysia Osostowicz, by Roy Howat, edited by Roy Howat
February 26, 1987: The Judgment of Paris
Le Musée d'Orsay 1, rue de Bellechasse, Paris
Le Triomphe des mairies 8, 1987) An exhibition at the Petit Palais, Paris, (November 8, 1986–January, Catalog by Thérèse Burollet, by Daniel Imbert, by Frank Folliot
Les Concours d'esquisses peintes, 1816–1863 1986–December 14, 1986), and the National Academy of Design, New York (January 13, 1987–March 15, 1987). An exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October 8,, Catalog by Philippe Grunchec
November 6, 1986: Now, Voyager
Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford
April 26, 1984: Battle over Berlioz
The Musical Language of Berlioz by Julian Rushton
April 12, 1984: The New Sound of Liszt
Franz Liszt: Volume 1, The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker
October 27, 1983: Verdi Victorious
The Works of Giuseppe Verdi edited by Philip Gossett
Rigoletto: Melodrama in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave, edited by Martin Chusid
September 23, 1982: Neo-Con Art (letter)
May 27, 1982: The Unhappy Medium
Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision by Albert Boime
March 4, 1982: Enemies of Realism
"The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900" the St. Louis Art Museum, the Glasgow (Scotland) Art Gallery and Museum. November 1980-January 1982 an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum,
The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 by Gabriel P. Weisberg
February 18, 1982: What Is, and Is Not, Realism?
"The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900" the St. Louis Art Museum, the Glasgow (Scotland) Art Gallery and Museum. November 1980-January 1982 an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum,
The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 by Gabriel P. Weisberg
December 3, 1981: Proto-Photo
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography by Peter Galassi
"Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography" Museum, Omaha; the Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; the Art Institute of Chicago. May 1981-May 1982 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Joslyn Art
December 3, 1981: 'The New Grove' cont'd. (letter)
August 13, 1981: An Exchange on the New Grove
July 16, 1981: It Can Happen (letter)
May 28, 1981: The Musicological Marvel
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by Stanley Sadie
November 22, 1979: The Permanent Revolution
Romanticism by Hugh Honour
June 14, 1979: Rediscovering Haydn
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 2: Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766-1790 by H. C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 3: Haydn in England, 1791-1795 by H. C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 4: Haydn: The Years of "The Creation," 1796-1800 by H. C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 5: Haydn: The Late Years, 1801-1809 by H. C. Robbins Landon
May 31, 1979: Too Much Opera?
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. I: Eraclea edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. II: Marco Attilio Regolo edited by Donald Jay Grout, edited by Joscelyn Godwin
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. III: Griselda edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. IV: The Faithful Princess edited by Donald Jay Grout
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Vol. V: Massimo Puppieno edited by Donald Jay Grout, edited by H. Colin Slim
Italian Opera 1640-1770 edited by Howard M. Brown
November 10, 1977: The Origins of Walter Benjamin
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne
October 27, 1977: The Ruins of Walter Benjamin
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne
March 18, 1976: The Revival of Official Art
Le Musée du Luxembourg en 1874: Peintures November 18, 1974, by Geneviève Lacambre, with Jacqueline de Rohan-Chabot Catalogue of the exhibition at the Grand-Palais, Paris May 31 to
The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark
Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark
Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime
William-Adolphe Bouguereau December 13, 1974 to February 2, 1975, by Robert Isaacson Catalogue of the exhibition at The New York Cultural Center,
French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution Delacroix" at the Grand-Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975 Catalogue of the exhibition "French Painting from David to
June 26, 1975: Did Wordsworth Kill Lucy? (letter)
May 15, 1975: Romantic Documents
Flaubert: Correspondence Tome I, 1830-1851 edited by Jean Bruneau
Byron's Letters and Journals, Vol. 1: 'In my hot youth,' 1798-1810, Vol. 2: 'Famous in my time,' 1810-1812, Vol. 3: 'Alas! the love of Women!' 1813-1814 edited by Leslie A. Marchand
April 17, 1975: Grateful to Strunk (letter)
February 6, 1975: A Master Musicologist
Essays on Music in the Western World by Oliver Strunk
December 12, 1974: Private Property
February 21, 1974: Medium & Message (letter)
November 1, 1973: What Did the Romantics Mean?
Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840: Romantic Landscape Painting in Dresden by William Vaughan, by Helmut Börsch-Supan, by Hans Joachim Neidhardt
Robert Schumann: The Man and His Music edited by Alan Walker
June 14, 1973: Isn't It Romantic?
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M.H. Abrams
Coleridge's Verse: A Selection edited by William Empson, edited by David Pirie
February 22, 1973: One Easy Piece
Quartet No. 1 by Elliott Carter
Eight Etudes and a Fantasy by Elliott Carter
Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord by Elliott Carter
Variations for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Quartet No. 2 by Elliott Carter
Double concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Piano Concerto by Elliott Carter
Concerto for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
Quartet No. 3 by Elliott Carter
May 18, 1972: Love That Mozart
The Life and Death of Mozart by Michael Levey
February 10, 1972: Music to Compose By
Boulez on Music Today by Pierre Boulez, translated by Susan Bradshaw, translated by Richard Rodney Bennett
July 22, 1971: There Are Twelve (letter)
June 17, 1971: Art Has Its Reasons
Five Graphic Music Analyses by Heinrich Schenker, with a new Introduction and Glossary by Felix Salzer
La Poétique, la Mémoire Change No. 6, 1970, Editions du Seuil (Paris)
Shakespeare's Verbal Art in Th'Expence of Spirit by Roman Jakobson, by Lawrence G. Jones
May 7, 1970: TV Guide
Civilization by Kenneth Clark
February 26, 1970: A Tone-deaf Musical Dictionary
Harvard Dictionary of Music Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Willi Apel
From New York Review Books
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Books by Charles Rosen
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (2002)
Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New (2000)
Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen (1998)
The Romantic Generation (1995)
The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music (1994)
The Musical Languages of Elliott Carter (1985)
Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth-Century Art (1984)
Sonata Forms (1980)
Arnold Schoenberg (1975)
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1971)