Leonard Rose
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| Born | Leonard Joseph Rose July 27, 1918 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | November 16, 1984(aged 66) |
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Leonard Joseph Rose(July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) was an Americancellistand pedagogue.
Biography[edit]
Rose was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were Jewish immigrants, his father fromBragin,Belarus,and his mother fromKyiv,Ukraine.[1]Rose took lessons from Walter Grossman,Frank MillerandFelix Salmond.After completing his studies atPhiladelphia'sCurtis Institute of Musicat age 20, he joinedArturo Toscanini'sNBC Symphony Orchestra,and almost immediately became associate principal. At 21 he was principal cellist of theCleveland Orchestraand at 26 became the principal of theNew York Philharmonic.
He made many recordings as a soloist after 1951, including concertos with conductors such asLeonard Bernstein,Eugene Ormandy,George SzellandBruno Walteramong others. Rose also joined withIsaac SternandEugene Istominin a celebratedpiano trio.
Rose's legacy as a teacher remains to this day: his students from theJuilliard School,Curtis InstituteandIvan Galamian'sMeadowmountSummer School fill the sections of many American orchestras, notably those of theBoston Symphony Orchestra,Cleveland Orchestra,Philadelphia Orchestra,and the New York Philharmonic. His pupils includeLori Singer,Raymond Davis,Desmond Hoebig,Peter Stumpf,Fred Sherry,Christopher von Baeyer,Myung-wha Chung,Patrick Sohn,Thomas Demenga,Stephen Kates,Lynn Harrell,Yehuda Hanani,Hans Jørgen Jensen,Steven Honigberg,Eric Kim, Roger Drinkall,Robert deMaine,Bruce Uchimura,Donald Whitton,Yo-Yo Ma,Ronald Leonard,Steven Pologe,Sara Sant'Ambrogio,Matt Haimovitz,Mats Lidström,Richard Hirschl,John Sant’Ambrogio,and Marijane Carr Siegal.
Rose died inWhite Plains, New York,ofleukemia.In November 2009, a memorial marker was placed for Rose in the Mt. Ararat Cemetery inFarmingdale, New York,next to the grave of his first wife, Minnie Knopow Rose, who died in 1964. Minnie and Leonard met at Curtis, where she studied viola. His second wife was Xenia Petschek, whom he married in January 1965.[2]Rose played anAmaticello dated 1662, played today by Gary Hoffman.
Awards and recognitions[edit]
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
- Eugene Istomin,Leonard Rose &Isaac SternforBeethoven:The Complete Piano Trios(1971)
Notes[edit]
- ^"Leonard Rose Remembered".
- ^Long, Nancy (March 6, 1968)."Vibrancy Resounds In Rose Home"(PDF).The Herald Statesman.Yonkers, New York.RetrievedJanuary 27,2012.
References[edit]
- Janof, Tim."Leonard Rose Remembered".Tutti Celli.Internet Cello Society.RetrievedJanuary 27,2012.
- "Leonard Rose".Historical Cellists.Internet Cello Society.RetrievedJanuary 27,2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Leonard Rose. America's Golden Age and Its First Cellist,Steven Honigberg, (revised edition 2013), Amazon.com
- "With the Artists". World Famed String Players Discuss Their Art,Samuel and Sada Applebaum, John Markert & Co., New York (1955). Pages 203–211 are devoted to Leonard Rose.
- Liner notes: "Leonard Rose Live in Recital, 1953–1960" VAI; "Seeking Perfection" by Susan M Anderson
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- 1918 births
- 1984 deaths
- American classical cellists
- American music educators
- Cello educators
- Curtis Institute of Music alumni
- Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state)
- Grammy Award winners
- Jewish American musicians
- Jewish classical musicians
- Ukrainian Jews
- 20th-century classical musicians
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century cellists