David Rosenmann-Taub was born in Santiago de Chile in 1927. He was fortunate to have parents who fostered his musical precocity. His mother gave him piano exercises, often making games out of them. To improve his aim, for example, she invented a game in which the boy would play a note in a scale, then the next note in the scale, only two octaves above. He remembers her saying, "Do that fifty times with your eyes closed."

By the time he was nine, having already acquired a considerable knowledge of music, Rosenmann-Taub started giving piano lessons. He continued his own pianistic education with Roberto Duncker, and took lessons in rhythm and music theory from Andrée Haas (a student of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze), in harmony from Samuel Negrete, and in musical methodology from Carlos Isamitt. His teacher in composition, counterpoint, and fugue was the great Chilean composer Pedro Humberto Allende .

Although he began recording in the 1950s, it was only in the 1990s, when a grant provided the necessary studio time, that he was able to commit a sizeable portion of his work to tape. The dissemination of his music, which fills over a hundred CDs, was launched in April, 2006 with the release of En un lugar de la Sangre, a multimedia composition consisting of a book of poems, two compact discs of music and poetry, and a DVD video of the composer playing selections of the music. To view a sample from this DVD, please see the video portion of the recordings page.