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Charles Edward Ives (/ aɪ v z /; October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. [1] Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. [ 2 ]
For all his singularity, the Yankee maverick Charles Ives is among the most representative of American artists. Optimistic, idealistic, fiercely democratic, he unified the voice of the American people with the forms and traditions of European classical music.
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.
The Charles Ives Society is a not-for-profit organization that was formed to stimulate public interest in the music of Charles Ives (1874-1954) and to include and encourage the performance, recording, and study of his work, and the publication of definitive editions.
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; and in its ...
The first comprehensive Charles Ives discography, compiled by Richard Warren, was published in 1972. In the decades following, Warren, along with staff of the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, continued documenting newly released recordings of Ives’ music.
Jul 3, 2008 · Charles Ives, a successful insurance executive, quietly revolutionized American music by blending snippets of marches and hymn-tunes with surprisingly dissonant harmonies.
A festival coming to the Jacobs School of Music and Indiana University Bloomington from September 30 to October 8, 2024. The leading American concert composer of his time, Charles Ives (1874-1954) is also an iconic American genius whose story links to Transcendentalism, the Civil War, camp meetings, and Wall Street.
Jun 8, 2018 · Charles Ives was arguably the first and greatest American composer. Although aware of the work of European composers such as Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, Ives broke with their traditional style. He instead used distinctively American materials in his works.
Born in Danbury, Connecticut on 20 October 1874, Charles Ives was recognized as the most original and significant American composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was influenced first by his father, George Ives, a bandmaster who had unconventional ideas about what music might be.
