David Rosen (musicologist)

For other people named David Rosen, see David Rosen.

David Rosen (born September 21, 1938, in San Francisco^[1]) is an expert in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian opera. He is noted for having discovered the complete score of Messa per Rossini, presumed lost, in the archives of the Italian music publishing house G. Ricordi & Co in 1986.

David Rosen
Occupation	Musicologist

He was responsible for the critical edition of Verdi's Messa da Requiem^[2] and the Cambridge Music Handbook on the Requiem.^[3] He also discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale a passage in Verdi's manuscript score for Don Carlos which had had to be cut in order to ensure that the opera's premiere would finish before midnight. This led to a further discovery of more music which had also been discarded.^[4]

Rosen has also pursued an interest in understanding the original staging of late romantic opera, publishing a seminal work on the staging of Un ballo in maschera.^[5] He is an emeritus professor of musicology in the Department of Music at Cornell University. He has worked also with the Centro studi Giacomo Puccini and the Fondo Leoncavallo.

References

1. Rosen, David in Sadie, Stanley, ed. (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2., vol. 4, p.42.
2. Messa da Requiem for the Anniversary of the Death of Manzoni, 22 May 1874, by Giuseppe Verdi, University of Chicago Press
3. Verdi: Requiem, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
4. Budden, Julian (1981). The Operas of Verdi, Volume 3. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-30740-8., p. 25.
5. Un Ballo in Maschera di Giuseppe Verdi, Ricordi

External links

• music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/
• Morgan, Paula (2001). "Rosen, David (Baruch)". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.