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Charles Ives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Born in Danbury, Connecticut on 20 October 1874, Charles Ives pursued what is perhaps one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history.
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Biography, bibliography, works, and descriptive catalogu ... Ives the man; His life ; Here you can read the finest short biographical piece on Ives. It's by Jan Swafford, the author of Charles Ives: A Life with Music.
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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.
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Charles Ives: Biography and Discography; (Classical Contemporary Music Archives) ... Charles Ives: Selected Discography; (BMG Classics World) ... Results of Internet Searches for Keyword 'Charles Ives'
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Throughout the thirty years of a creative life which left a legacy of highly original orchestral, piano, choral, and chamber works as well, Charles Ives continued to compose songs--some 150 by the time he abandoned composition altogether in early 1920's. Publishing them, Ives quipped, was an act of cleaning house-
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First chapter of a biography. ... The music of Charles Ives, which on first acquaintance generally strikes listeners as willfully eccentric, grew from "a long foreground"--as Emerson said of Walt Whitman's equally eccentric Leaves of Grass. Ives well understood how insistently the past remained present in his work.
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