Charles Ives
Composer
1874 – 1954
Who was Charles Ives?
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American original". Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.
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- Born
- Oct 20, 1874
Danbury - Also known as
- Ives, Charles
- Charles Edward Ives
- Ives
- Parents
- Spouses
- Harmony Twitchell
(1908 - 1954/05/19)
- Harmony Twitchell
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
Music - Hopkins School
- Yale University
- Lived in
- Danbury
- New Haven
- New York City
- Died
- May 19, 1954
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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