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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]
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.
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.
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.
American composer Charles Ives created his Holidays Symphony as a haunting sonic portrait of New England at the turn of the 20th century, at turns sentimental and chaotic.
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.
