What is Arnold Rosé?
[[File:Arnold Rose.jpg|thumb|Arnold Rosé]] '''Arnold Josef Rosé''' (October 24, 1863 – August 25, 1946) was a [[Celebrity|famous]] [[Violin|violinist]]. He was the leader of the [[Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra]] for 50 years. ==Early life== Arnold Rosé was born in [[Iaşi]] (Jassy) in what is now [[Romania]]. His [[family]] was [[Jew|Jewish]]. Their name at that time was Rosenblum. He had three [[Brother|brothers]]. All four boys were musical and so his parents decided to move to [[Vienna]] which was a big city in [[Austria]] where there was lots of music. Arnold's father was a [[carriage]] builder. In those days, people often travelled by [[horse]] and [[cart]]. His father made good quality carriages and he made plenty of [[money]] from his [[business]]. When Arnold was seven, he started music lessons. When he was ten he was good enough to study the violin at the Vienna Conservatorium which was a special school for musical [[Student|pupils]]. ==Career== In 1881, he played a violin [[solo (music)|solo]] with a famous orchestra and famous [[Conductor (music)|conductor]]: the Vienna Philharmonic under [[Hans Richter]]. The piece he played was the Violin [[Concerto]] by Otto Goldmark. He was offered the job of orchestral leader. This was a very important position for such a young man. He stayed in that job for 50 years. Rosé did other work in addition to playing with the orchestra. He gave violin lessons to talented pupils. He like to play [[string quartet]]s and he got together with three other players to make up the [[Rosé Quartet]]. They were very good and for more than half a century people said they were the best string quartet in [[Europe]]. Arnold's brother Eduard was the [[Violoncello|cellist]] in the quartet. They played works by lots of composers, especially [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] and [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]. Rosé knew the composer [[Johannes Brahms]] and they played some of Brahms’s compositions when they had only just been written, e.g. the [[clarinet]] qui