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David Rosen
Occupation
Musicologist
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.
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]