Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Rosen

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Charles Welles Rosen was an American pianist and writer on music. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings, notable among them the book The Classical Style.

American - Musician | May 5, 1927 - December 9, 2012

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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Charles Rosen

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Charles Rosen

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

Charles Rosen

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Charles Rosen

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

Charles Rosen

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

Charles Rosen

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Rosen

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