Charles Ives

{ 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. 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". 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 elements, and quarter tones. His experimentation foreshadowed many musical innovations that were later more widely adopted during the 20th century. Hence, he is often regarded as the leading American composer of art music of the 20th century. Sources of Ives's tonal imagery included hymn tunes and traditional songs; he also incorporated melodies of the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster. {

Christmas Classics 2025 - 2025-12-11 00:00:00

Classics Discoveries - 2025-12-10 00:00:00

Airs by the River - 2025-10-13 00:00:00

Autumn Sonatas - 2025-10-08 00:00:00

"A Midsummer Musical Journey" - From Mozart & Mendelssohn to Ravel & Tchaikovsky - 2025-08-20 00:00:00

Similar Artists

György Ligeti

Olivier Messiaen

Paul Hindemith

Zoltán Kodály

Robert Craft

Anton Webern

Alban Berg

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Arthur Honegger

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Kurt Atterberg

Witold Lutosławski

Jörg Widmann

Oliver Knussen

Yvonne Loriod

Maggini Quartet

Peter Eötvös

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Jennifer Higdon

Henri Dutilleux