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Charles Ives: A Life with Music Book

This is a scholarly assessment of the American composer Charles Ives, whose life and work have remained enigmatic since his death in 1954. A successful insurance executive in Hartford, Connecticut, Ives used a considerable part of his tidy income to promote serious modern music, and despite his day job maintained a prolific output of scores himself. He was a robustly opinionated and confident individual who eschewed easy listening; his atonal works were considered almost un-American. Yet he also sought recognition that just eluded him in his lifetime. Ives is increasingly known around the world. Jan Swafford, himself a composer, should help win even more interest with this sympathetic biography.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A colorful portrait of the enigmatic composer/insurance executive who changed the face of twentieth-century American music discusses Ives's early life in Danbury, Connecticut, his musical inspiration, and the rich assortment of Ives's writings and musical works.

  • 0393038939
  • 9780393038934
  • Jan Swafford
  • 11 September 1996
  • WW Norton & Co
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 525
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