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Charles Rosen

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[Wikipedia] Charles Welles Rosen was an American pianist and music critic. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings. He won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters for The Classical Style.

Quotes by Charles Rosen

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit…

Ailments

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

Classical music

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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by…

Art

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

Art

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

Altered

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

Affection

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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,…

Belief

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