Paul Leopold Rosenfeld (May 4, 1890 – July 21, 1946) was an American journalist, best known as a music critic.
[1] He was born in New York City into a German-Jewish family, the son of Clara (née Liebmann) and Julius Rosenfield.
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.
Paul Rosenfeld died in St. Vincent's Hospital shortly after he had suffered a heart attack while attending a motion picture.