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Charles Ives
| Charles Ives | |
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This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his "day job". Charles ives brief biography examplesHe was the director of a successful insurance agency. | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Charles Edward Ives |
| Born | October 20, 1874(1874-10-20) |
| Died | May 19, 1954 |
| Occupations | composer, insurance agent |
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist[1]composer.
He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international renown.[2] 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".[3] 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,[