"One of my vivid memories of recent years is seeing the pianist Charles Rosen play Beethoven sonatas at the Royal Festival Hall, at a time when he was almost 80. If ever a man had a claim to "seasoned wisdom", it's Rosen. He was a pupil of a pupil of the great Franz Liszt and has written two of the very few books on classical music that deserve to be called great."
Student of Liszt?
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Rosen (born 1927) studied with Moriz Rosenthal (1862-1946) who studied with Liszt, beginning in 1878. However, Rosen himself has cited Josef Hofmann, who he heard play with some frequency from childhood, as a greater influence.
I met Rosen maybee five years ago when he had a master class at my work at Malmö Music Academy. I thought he was looking quite young to me, 65 or so.
Music makes you young?
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