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Charles Edward Ives (/ aɪ v z /; October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American actuary, businessman, and modernist composer. Ives was amongst the earliest American internationally renowned composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. [2]
May 15, 2024 · Charles Ives (born October 20, 1874, Danbury, Connecticut, U.S.—died May 19, 1954, New York City) was a significant American composer who is known for a number of innovations that anticipated most of the later musical developments of the 20th century.
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Learn about the life and music of Charles Ives, the Yankee maverick and American composer. Explore his childhood, education, career, influences, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.
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Charles Ives (1874-1954) The question of Ives’s influence is a vexing issue. He is almost universally acclaimed as America’s first true great composer and widely acknowledged as a leading figure of early modernism (though his work was unknown at the time), alongside other contemporary giants like Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Bartok.
A Question is Better than an Answer. In Charles Ives's most famous work The Unanswered Question, a miniature he called a "cosmic drama," one finds distilled his revolutionary means, and more importantly the ends of his singular art. The piece is a kind of collage in three distinct layers, roughly coordinated.
Biography. Charles Ives, 1874-1954. [Charles Ives], [n.d.]. To hear the music of composer Charles Ives is to hear a unique voice in American music, and indeed, in Western music as a whole. His work is at once iconoclastic and closely tied to his musical heritage; in its conception and form, both staggeringly complex and immediately accessible ...
