Music and art critic, and writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. After studying at Yale (1912 BA) and Columbia University (1913 Litt B), he worked as a freelance writer for many periodicals, and published books on music and art. A supporter of the modern movement in the arts, his best-known work was 14 American Moderns (1924), a volume of essays on such notables as Alfred Stieglitz, Albert P Ryder, and William Carlos Williams. He was especially known as a passionate supporter of modern American composers in such works as Discoveries of a Music Critic (1936).
Paul Leopold Rosenfeld (May 4, 1890–July 21, 1946) was an American journalist, best known as a music critic.
He was born in New York City into a German-Jewish family.
After further education at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he became a prolific journalist, writing on literature and art as well as music. His friend Edmund Wilson, writing two years after Rosenfeld's death, expressed the thought that his articles had become too uncompromising for the public taste, as time went by.
Magazines which published Rosenfeld's writing included The New Republic, Seven Arts, Vanity Fair magazine, The Nation, The Dial and Modern Music.
The Boy in the Sun (1928) was an autobiographical novel.
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