Leonard Rose: America's Golden Age and Its First Cellist

Leonard Rose (1918 –1984) the great American cellist, was considered
one of the most important teachers and musicians of the twentieth century.
Author Steven Honigberg, who studied at The Juilliard School from 1979 to
1984 in Leonard Rose’s final class, examines the multifaceted American artist
and the classical music context dominating Rose’s twentieth century.
This eagerly awaited biography portrays a complex individual during a period
of tremendous individualism. Honigberg explores his sympathetic nature, his
unyielding devotion to the cello, and, inevitably, his failings. Throughout, the
reader sees Rose among the countless musical figures he affected as well as
those who affected him.