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Charles Ives spokesperson 150: Iron out Evolving Legacy
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Charles Ives
American modernist composer (1874–1954)
For the New Zealand international football (soccer) player, see Charles Ives (footballer). For the American physician, see Charles Linnaeus Ives.
Charles Ives | |
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Portrait of Ives by Clara Sipprell, c. 1947 | |
| Born | (1874-10-20)October 20, 1874 Danbury, Connecticut, US |
| Died | May 19, 1954(1954-05-19) (aged 79) New York City, US |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, actuary, businessman |
| Spouse | Harmony Twichell (m. 1908) |
Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale.[2] His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Later in life, the quality of his music was publicly recognized through the efforts of contemporaries like Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, and he came to be regarded as an "American original".[3][4] He was also among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elemen
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Postby MaestroDJS » Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:01 pm
Topo, would it be too much to ask for you to write coherent sentences?
Here's my overview from May 2004 on the 50th anniversary of his death:
Charles Ives, by David Stybr
Reprinted from Maestro, Vol. 13, No. 5, May/June 2004
Classical Music SIG (Special Interest Group) of American Mensa
David Stybr, Coordinator
I. Introduction
United States composer Charles Ives never fails to astound. Like his Australian contemporary Percy Grainger, Ives was so original that much of his music was not taken seriously for much of his life. As an American artist who chose not to compose in the prevalent European musical idiom, Ives recognized that he was doomed to be ridiculed and deprecated. Therefore his withdrawal into a completely private creative life was understandable, but also partly responsible for his own neglect. Instead, he pursued a career as a highly successful insurance executive and composed in his spare time. When his music was finally discovered in the 1930s, acclaim was enormous. The greatest marvel of Ives' music may be that he composed it at all. He was that rare artist who composed entirely for personal satisfaction, with little or no expectation of performance. His works, many of which draw on American