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As part of its celebration of Elliott Carter’s seventieth birthday, the Library of Congress invited Charles Rosen to perform the composer’s 1946 Piano Sonata, a work that marks a turning point in Carter’s compositional technique from a more accessible to a more complex and difficult idiom. Mr. Rosen delivered a lecture, extemporaneous and with many musical examples, before his performance, and then refined and expanded the material for this publication. The book includes a transcription of Mr. Rosen's interview with the composer, made for the BBC, and "A Guide to Elliott Carter Research Materials at the Library of Congress Music Division," by Morgan Cundiff.
As part of its celebration of Elliott Carter’s seventieth birthday, the Library of Congress invited Charles Rosen to perform the composer’s 1946 Piano Sonata, a work that marks a turning point in Carter’s compositional technique from a more accessible to a more complex and difficult idiom. Mr. Rosen delivered a lecture, extemporaneous and with many musical examples, before his performance, and then refined and expanded the material for this publication. The book includes a transcription of Mr. Rosen's interview with the composer, made for the BBC, and "A Guide to Elliott Carter Research Materials at the Library of Congress Music Division," by Morgan Cundiff.
Charles Rosen
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, notably the book The Classical...
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