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Leonard Rose | |
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.jpg) Leonard Rose,Tel Aviv, 1961 | |
| Born | Leonard Joseph Rose (1918-07-27)July 27, 1918 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | November 16, 1984(1984-11-16) (aged 66) White Plains, New York, U.S. |
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Leonard Joseph Rose (July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) was an Americancellist and pedagogue.
Rose was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were Jewish immigrants, his father fromBragin,Belarus, and his mother fromKyiv,Ukraine.[1] Rose started taking piano lessons when he was eight years old before switching to the cello when he was ten years old at the suggestion of his father. His cello teachers were Walter Grossman,Frank Miller andFelix Salmond. After completing his studies atPhiladelphia'sCurtis Institute of Music at age 20, he joinedArturo Toscanini'sNBC Symphony Orchestra, and almost immediately became associate principal. At 21 he was principal cellist of theCleveland Orchestra and 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 Szell andBruno Walter among others. Rose also joined withIsaac Stern andEugene Istomin in a celebratedpiano trio.
Rose's legacy as a teacher remains to this day: his students from theJuilliard School,Curtis Institute andIvan Galamian'sMeadowmount Summer 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 anAmati cello dated 1662, played today by Gary Hoffman.
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
