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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 A
Rosen in 1973 on a tour of Southern Africa
The Piano Sonata No. 29 in B♭ major, Op. 106 by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1817 and published in 1818. The sonata is widely viewed as one of the most important works of the composer's third
Charles Rosen
…recorded The Art of Fugue in performances of exceptional lucidity of texture. His Beethoven playing (he specializes in the late sonatas, particularly the Hammerklavier) is notable for its powerful rhythms and its unremitting intellectual force. In Debussy his attention is focussed rather on structural detail than on…
Beethoven in 1818–19; portrait by Ferdinand Schimon
Sketches for the slow movement of Piano Sonata No. 29, probably of 1818, musical autograph